Cackleberry Club co-owner Suzanne Dietz is doing her good deed (and making a quick escape) when she realizes local funeral director Ozzie Driesden failed to return for his cherry pie from the local bake sale. Unfortunately, Ozzie won't be eating any more cherry pie, and will need the services of a funeral director. Before Suzanne can truly process the fact that Ozzie is lying on his own embalming table, someone sneaks up and chloroforms her. When she's found by a couple of members of the police department, the initial theory is suicide, until Ozzie's assistant is found hanging from a tree.

Elmwood Park has a murderer running around, and having been a sort-of-victim of the killer, Suzanne decides to do some investigating of her own. There's no shortage of suspects, and as Suzanne delves deeper into the case, she manages to annoy the killer and make herself a target. It will take every bit of skill each Cackleberry Club friend possesses to discover the identity of the culprit before the killer closes them down, permanently.

EGGS BENEDICT ARNOLD by Laura Childs is the second in the Cackleberry Club mystery series. While the mystery is sound and moves along at an engaging pace, it's the relationship between the three friends I really enjoyed. Suzanne, Petra and Toni rely on their long-standing friendship to get them through the tough times and are there for one another when things get tough. This is a series I look forward to reading more of!

Book Summary

When Cackleberry Clubber Suzanne delivers a pie to funeral director Ozzie Driesden, she discovers him not working at the embalming table but lying on the embalming table. She barely has time to recognize his corpse before she's drugged with chloroform. With more suspects than breakfast specials, the Cackleberry Club scrambles to crack the case before one of their own ends up six feet under.