I have had the pleasure of reading only a few titles but the three I have read are winners. The second book I jumped into and zipped through with great interest is Murder In The Milkcase by Candice Miller Speare.
Murder In The Milkcase starts out just like you might expect from the title. Typical wife and mother, Trish Cunningham goes to the grocery store for her weekly groceries. But then all sense of normalcy is thrown out when she discovers the body of pharmacist Jim Bob Jenkins in the milkcase right behind the two-percent milk. This gives a new meaning to the term ‘spoiled milk’. Though this is a bad enough start to Trish’s one day off from work at the self-storage business, it turns even uglier when she becomes the prime suspect in the murder.
Of course, Trish, being the character she is, sets out to solve the crime. She not only causes her mother upset over her sleuthing tendencies along the way, but she shakes up a murderer, too. A murderer who isn’t afraid to kill again.
Though I mentioned that Trish was a typical wife and mother, the author Candice Miller Speare has written her in a fun, snarky and altogether enjoyable voice. Her dialogue is crisp and real and the settings and situations Trish finds herself in smack with authenticity for a suburban wife and mother. Though I have to admit the son who sees dead people is not what you typically find in the suburbs, his plot line is great fun and an essential part of the book. And as any good Heartsong novel provides, Murder In The Milkcase has a special romance between Trish and her husband.
