Laurie Cass

Minnie has a new boss who wants the library's budget, including the bookmobile budget, to be cut so she can get the same system she had at her previous place of employment that the library board had recently decided did not meet their needs. She's buttering up the board members, and Minnie feels the new director doesn't like her very much. The rest of the staff and the patrons don't really like the new library director either. While on her bookmobile route, a lady lawyer who just returned to the area visits, but Eddie the cat finds a dead body in the bed of the pickup she drove. The body belongs to her father. She didn't get along that well with her father, but Minnie is convinced she did not kill him. Lots of people had reason to want him dead. He was one of those builders that cuts corners, creating problems for the people who purchase the homes, the building inspectors, his employees, and everyone else. I really enjoy how Eddie always has his pulse on the situation and drops clues--whether or not they are recognized as such. As I read this book, I couldn't help but wonder if the author had an experience with a D. R. Horton home. D. R. Horton is a builder who is flooding our local area with a bunch of cookie-cutter shoddily-built homes. If I hear of his demise, I'll probably expect it to be murder by one of the persons who bought one of his sub-par dwellings.… (more)