All Hats on Deck
Kindle Edition, 214 pages
Published September 10th 2019 by Lyrical Press
Goodreads synopsis:
No Southern wedding is complete without a special veil designed by Louisiana hat maker Missy DuBois. But it’s hats off to Missy DuBois when she tries to save her town from a bayou killer . . .
When Ruby Oubre asks Missy to advise her grandson on a business idea, the successful owner of Crowning Glory is happy to oblige. After a quick jaunt down the river, Missy meets with eighteen-year-old Hollis about the viability of opening an alligator farm for tourists. But it isn’t an alligator Missy finds floating at the mossy bottom of the Atchafalaya River. It’s Ruby, and her death wasn’t caused by accidental drowning. It seems everyone from local tour boat operators to the chief of police and the mayor of Bleu Bayou had an eye on snatching up Ruby’s riverbank property. If Missy doesn’t unveil a greedy killer soon, her hat-making career could be bogged down for good . . .
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4.5 Stars
This is the fifth book in the Missy Dubois Mystery series by Sandra Bretting.
I read the third book in this series back in June and really loved it. So, I was glad when the fifth book came available to review. What a joy for me to get back into the world of hat maker Missy and her boyfriend, Ambrose.
This story centered around a boy named Hollis and the death of his Grandmother Ruby Oubre. Hollis dreamed of starting an alligator farm but he had some competition in the form of people who wanted his grandmother’s land for their own ends. The boat dock on their property in the swamp region was very important to tour operators since the water levels in the area were ever changing and unpredictable. When Hollis’s grandmother is discovered drowned on the property, the game is on! All sort of riff-raff start rearing their ugly heads.
Missy gets involved in the investigation and for some reason Detective Lance LaPorte encourages her to a point. Then when things get hairy, she is ghosted. In the meantime, she is presented with a unique problem, there is a new hat maker in town and she wants to steal all of Missy’s business. Even the new client who was planning a money is no object wedding is lured away. Missy feels bad since this woman had been a blogger and she had given her an interview a year ago and spilled a lot of her hat making secrets that she should have kept to herself and now the woman was taking advantage and trying to ruin her business at the same time.
This book really keeps you interested and the whole community is so unique that I don’t think you will find anything similar in any other book. The mystery seems almost too simple but then the simplicity blows up in our face when so many suspects seem to just come out of the woodwork… or the swamp, so to speak.
This is a great cozy mystery series that will immediately hook you.
I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.
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