Crafts and Life

The county fair is the highlight of the year for the small town of Lovett, Michigan especially for food-and-lifestyle blogger Shelby McDonald, who writes as the Farmer s Daughter. She s submitting jams and jellies she s created from the produce she grows at Love Blossom Farm in hopes of harvesting a blue ribbon.
But the townspeople get more than just the excitement of hayrides, tractor pulls, and cotton candy when Shelby s neighbor and volunteer fireman, Jake Taylor, extricates the body of Zeke Barnstable instead of a dummy during a demonstration of the Jaws of Life. The fact that Jake and Zeke were known to be at odds plants suspicion in the minds of the police. As evidence against Jake grows, Shelby knows she has to plow through the clues to weed out the true killer and save her friend.

Another wonderful adventure with The Farmer's Daughter and her family, Shelby is planning on entering some of her preserves at the County Fair, her son Billy is going to be riding and Amelia, well she is being a typical teen and NOT wanting to do anything much other than be on her phone with her friends.  Things seem to be going well until during the judging of the pies it appears that sabotage has happened and then the day gets worse with the dummy in the firefighter's demonstration NOT being a dummy at all but a dead body, the dead body of a farmer that Jake (Shelby's neighbour) had strong words with not too long ago, and Jake was the volunteer firefighter that cut the body of the the car demonstration.

Now with people hiding information from the Police, and Frank her brother in law as the lead detective in particular, Shelby needs to dig deep and discover the truth before someone else gets hurt, oh and at the same decide if she is going to be able to put the death of her husband a couple of years ago behind her and risk her heart dating again.

Peg Cochran has done it again with her Cozy Mystery, she has a wonderful way of pulling you into the character's lives and this book is no exception, 10 out of 10 yet again!