Ripe for Vengeance by Wendy Tyson

Megan's boyfriend's classmates from college are coming to town.  They want to get together with him and Megan agrees to go with him.  She'll have regrets later...

Henery Press and Edelweiss allowed me to read  this book for review (thank you).  It will be published July 16th.

Chase is negative and nasty.  Martine can't keep her eyes off Denver, Megan's boyfriend.  They are all a bit weird.  

They are in town because they are going to go camping with students from a special needs school.  They intend to mentor them.  But that plan goes astray when Chase is murdered the first day.  Even worse, they think the boy that Denver's aunt is raising killed him.  Megan and Denver don't believe it but how can they prove someone else did it?

This is a good mystery with several factors at play.  It takes a lot of work to get the background on everyone and figure out who the killer is.  The ending is tense and keeps you glued to your chair.

I enjoyed this tale and I was rooting for Dillon, the special needs boy.

Seeds of Revenge: A Greenhouse Mystery by Wendy Tyson

Megan is working on farming all year.  If she can sell fresh greens to the various restaurants, she'll be busy all year and have a steady income.  On her way home after leaving samples at the restaurants, she finds a car in the ditch.  The snow is deadly and started late, so she drives carefully looking for the driver.  Sure enough, she finds her.  And that's where her troubles begin...

Henery Press and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published November 14th.

The driver is a woman who was invited to visit her aunt and set up a shop in town.  When she gets her to her destination, there's a man on the porch chatting with Merry.  Her passenger bolts out of the rig and accosts him.  She tells him to leave, she wants nothing to do with him.  Megan watches until Merry waves her off.  She's not sure what happened but it didn't look good.

It seems the man was the driver's father. She hates him and believes he killed her mother.  She's very vocal about it.  The death was ruled an accident.  No one knows enough about it to take one side or the other.  But someone kills the father and it appears they're going to have to figure out who.

This is the story of a very dysfunctional family.  There are emotional wounds everywhere.  No one in the family line was safe, they all suffered the impact.  There was a previous marriage, and there was also a lover.  The father was not a nice man but someone else in the family isn't either...

A MUDDIED MURDER: A Greenhouse Mystery by Wendy Tyson

Megan has come home.  She's left her lawyer's job and the stress of the work and the city and come back to the farm. After all, her grandmother is getting up in age and the farm takes a lot of work.  It's a good thing she has a plan in mind for creating a new business where she can sell farm produce since the farm needs some repair.  It's too bad not everyone is as enthusiastic about it as she is.  Especially not the Zoning man who is holding up her permits...

Henery Press and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published March 29th.

Megan is a smart young woman and she's determined to do what it takes to get the chance to open her business.  She even tells him that in the middle of her store with witnesses.  Of course, she never expected to find him dead in the barn that belongs to her the next day...

With the local police asking her tons of questions again and again, it doesn't get easier to get ready for her opening.  She gets annoyed and decides to start sleuthing herself.  The problem is that when they've already killed once, there is no hesitation about killing again.

My favorite part of this story was the budding romance between Megan and the local vet.  He's a Scot, takes care of her animals and he gives her one for protection since someone is still hanging around the farm.  She'll need the dog.  And she needs the vet, too.

This was a pleasant cozy with a well thought out plot.  There are enough unusual events and people to keep your interest and I'm ready for the next adventure Wendy has.  She's an interesting character.

DYING BRAND An Allison Campbell Mystery #3 by Wendy Tyson

Part of Allison's past flies into her face in the worst possible way.  A temporary affair while she was separated from her husband has resurfaced.  The man is dead and his appointment book makes it appear he was seeing her that day.  She had no appointment with him.  But the police aren't sure they believe her.

Henery Press and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published May 5th, so grab a copy then.

Allison is trying to put Scott back in past.  She's only seen him once since she found he was engaged and that was at the subway station and they didn't get to speak.  She would rather forget than remember him.  But then the pictures start showing up.  Photos of her nude with him.  He must have been taking the pictures without her knowledge.  However, her relationship with her ex-husband might not survive this surprise.  She never told him about it.

This story is a mix of relationships and corporate takeovers.  After getting the pictures, Allison decides to do her own investigation.  What she finds is that Scott was not what she thought he was.  He also was not true to his wife.  As she wades through the info they find online and through interviews, it gets more twisted.  And the ultimate surprise is when she finds out a man she admired and looked up to was part of the plot.  

This story sounded very realistic.  I'm really surprised her ex-husband is still by her side when the murder mystery is solved.  The issue wasn't that she slept with someone else while they were separated; it was the way it was presented to him in graphic form.  But he adjusts.  I'm not sure I would.

There will be more in this series.  Allison is now raising her niece, Grace, so she has more challenges in front of her.  I'm also sure there will be more mysteries in her life.  I found this to be an interesting series.  I'm hoping Mia and Vaughn get back together, too.