Class Reunions Are Murder

By Libby Klein,

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Fans of Jana DeLeon and Joanne Fluke will love Libby Klein! For fortysomething Poppy McAllister, taking a stroll down memory lane in Cape May, New Jersey, isn't just awkward--it's deadly.
 
Newly widowed and stuck in a middle-aged funk, Poppy has been running on cookies, infomercials, and one-sided chats with her…

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I can’t even tell you how much I love Aunt Ginny in Libby Klein’s Poppy McAllister Mystery series! She is an absolute hoot. While I love the whole series, the first introduction to Aunt Ginny in this book remains my favorite. 

Poppy is newly widowed and a grief-stricken disaster when she receives an invitation to her high school reunion. She heads home to Cape May and her eccentric Great Aunt Ginny’s house. As they do in cozy mysteries, a murder happens, and Poppy and Aunt Ginny are on the case.

Poppy and her aunt’s relationship, paired with Aunt Ginny’s crazy…

For a change, the protagonist, Poppy McAllister, isn’t twenty-eight (she’s forty-something), divorced (she’s widowed), thin and beautiful (she’s plump and on a gluten-free diet), or already in a successful business (she’s trying to start a gluten-free baking business). Poppy is prone to one-sided conversations with her cat (I was okay with this because Figaro is fantastic). 

In this book, Poppy attends her twenty-five-year class reunion and ends up being the primary suspect when the worst mean girl is found dead in front of Poppy’s locker. Klein writes with a light sarcastic humor that keeps me laughing while trying to solve…

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