Susan Breen introduces a charming new series heroine in this poignant and absorbing cozy mystery with a bite. Maggie Dove thinks everyone in her small Westchester County community knows everyone else’s secrets. Then murder comes to town. When Sunday School teacher Maggie Dove finds her hateful next-door neighbor Marcus Bender lying dead under her beloved oak tree—the one he demanded she cut down—she figures the man dropped dead of a mean heart. But Marcus was murdered, and the prime suspect is a young man Maggie loves like a son. Peter Nelson was the worst of Maggie’s Sunday School students; he was also her late daughter’s fiancé, and he’s been a devoted friend to Maggie in the years since her daughter’s death. Maggie can’t lose Peter, too. So she sets out to find the real murderer. To do that, she must move past the grief that has immobilized her all these years. She must probe the hidden corners of her little village on the Hudson River. And, when another death strikes even closer to home, Maggie must find the courage to defend the people and the town she loves—even if it kills her.
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2 primary booksMaggie Dove is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Susan Breen.
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3.5 stars
Thank you to the author for providing me with an ecopy of this book as part of this blog tour. When I read the synopsis for this book I thought it sounded like something I could end up liking. I then saw it was a cozy mystery which made me a little skeptical. Here's the thing I have only read a handful of cozy mysteries and I've only liked the ones by one specific author and they are all in one series. So after agreeing to review this one I was worried going into it but I ended up liking it in the end. The author hooked me and made me want to find out who dun it which I ended up being able to guess probably about halfway through but there were some surprises thrown in there. It was a little heavy on the religious themes but for me personally that didn't bother me. I didn't really connect with any of the characters and the I found the main character Maggie Dove to be very Judgmental and hard to like at first. The plot of this book is what kept me reading. This sounds like the start of a series and I could see my self reading more books in the series but I wouldn't be in any hurry to get to them. Overall this was a quick easy read that I ended up enjoying more than I thought I would.
