A Farm and Alarm

 

A Farm and Alarm (Clucks and Clues Cozy Mysteries Book 6)

The scream of the crop…

Harvest time in Honeytree is the sweetest season. Leona is up to her elbows in eggs and apples at Lucky Cluck Farm. Not only is her fresh cider business ripening, it’s a rare week that she doesn’t sell out of eggs at the farmer’s market, thanks to her long list of regulars.

But when a dead body crops up during a routine delivery at the pumpkin patch, Leona can’t help wondering why the murdered man has a carton of her Grade-As in his possession.

The new sheriff in town is wondering, too, which doesn’t squash local rumors that Leona herself had something to do with the killing.

To gourd her own innocence—and protect her loyal customers from undue suspicion—Leona must navigate a corn maze of clues to solve the crime. But can she carve out a solution before the killer reaps another victim?

If you like a taste of farm life in your cozy mysteries, you’ll love A Farm & Alarm, the sixth book in the Clucks and Clues series. It’s “chick” full of friendship, chicken humor, and murder. Of course, there is no gore, swears, or other yucky stuff. Just good, clean crime in idyllic, small-town Oregon.

Other books in the series:

A Cop & A Coop (Book 1)
A Flock & A Fluke (Book 2)
A Roost & Arrest (Book 3)
Born in a Barn (Book 4)
Pecks & Suspects (Book 5)
A Farm & Alarm (Book 6)

Book Review 

Leona owns a chicken coop where her chickens lay the eggs for her business. One of them lives in her house and is her best friend, well, her best animal friend. This is just one of the interesting twists this story has compared to most small town mysteries…not a cat or dog, but a chicken. It is spooky season and a murder occurs at the local farm that really ramps up for the season: pumpkin patch and carving, pumpkin toss, haunted house, all things Halloween. Leona’s next door neighbor and boyfriend raises grapes. The story gives us lots of characters to enjoy and Leona and Eli (next door neighbor boyfriend), the former sheriff, discover too many suspects and clues to the mystery. Until the final Halloween extravaganza, the killer is unknown, as Is the motive. But at last, Eli gets to celebrate his November birthday with his love and both are becoming more in tune.