This book is the seventeenth in the Merry Wrath books, published in 2021. I really enjoy this series.
Merry Wrath was a CIA agent, until she was outed and forced to leave the agency. She moved back to her hometown, and connected with her childhood best friend. They become Girl Scout leaders, and several of they girls have interesting skills.
This story begins with Merry, at home, going to bed with her husband, Rex, a police detective, and waking up next to a dead man in a shed, wearing different clothes . She is in a different town, run by police that don't like people from her town at all, and is arrested just a few minutes after waking up, due to an anonymous tip.
She spends the rest of the book trying to clear herself and find the real murderer, discovering some of the oddities in the town she woke up in, and getting help from her friends and family.
I found the book amusing, as usual, but this story seemed to be getting a little too close to becoming more of a parody of the earlier books. The basic premise of the series is a little unbelievable to begin with, so some quirks in the characters are expected. But this story was just a little too quirky.
I'll probably read the next, and see if I like it better than this one.
This is #50--published in 2021--in Around the Year in Books Challenge. Also number 16 in my Craving for Cozies and 2021 Reading Challenge.
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