Laurien Berenson unleashes another warm and fuzzy cozy mystery in Peg and Rose Stir Up Trouble, the second book in her comical Senior Sleuths series set in
the Connecticut suburbs.
Readers don’t need to be familiar with the first book, Peg and Rose Solve a Murder, where tough and feisty Peg Turnbull and sweet-natured,
eternally optimistic Rose Donovan were first introduced. The once estranged
sisters-in-law, now in their 60s, are unlikely friends after years of not
speaking to each other. Peg is a widowed, Poodle breeder and a “popular and
highly esteemed dog show judge,” while Rose, a former nun, now runs a woman’s
shelter with her husband, an ex-priest.
When Rose gives Peg’s stagnant romantic life a push by signing
her up for “Mature Mingle,” a dating service, her actions are met with
disdainful skepticism. But when Peg meets and falls for “witty and urbane”
Nolan Abercrombie, things take a surprisingly glad turn—until Nolan dies in a
hit-and-run accident. When grieving Peg attends his funeral with Rose, the two
notice that all the mourners are women around their same age. Why is that? Peg
and Rose put their amateur sleuthing skills to work, piecing together clues
into who Nolan really was. Might his death not have been accident? And if so,
who might’ve wanted him dead—and why?
Cleverly sharp twists and turns--tracked by two, spunky retiree
protagonists--will once again charm and delight cozy mystery lovers.
Peg
and Rose Stir Up Trouble: A Senior Sleuths Mystery Book Two by Laurien Berenson
Kensington Cozies,
$27.00 hardcover, 9781496735751,
288 pages, Publishing Date: July 25, 2023
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NOTE: This review
is a reprint and is being posted with the permission of Shelf Awareness. To read this review on Shelf Awareness: Reader's Edition (July 28, 2023), link HERE