Small Town Trouble

By Jean Erhardt

ISBN# 9781590215210

Author’s Website:     http://www.JeanErhardt.com

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Kim

*Beware of possible Spoilers*

It’s bad enough that her love life is a little upside down now that that they’ve taken a “breaky-poo ”  but  with a phone call from her hometown of Fogerty, Ohio, looks like Kimberly Claypoole is going to have to go home.

While at the restaurant, The Little Pigeon, she co-owns with her friend, Kimberly hears from her mother. Someone made an offer on the radio station that her deceased father cherished and for sentimental reasons her mother does not want to sell it.

“Mother,” I said, trying not to scream like a pig,”be reasonable. Were talking about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a station that’s been in the red longer than Tammy Wynette sang Stand by your Man.”

On her way home Kimberly was trying to figure out the many things that need to be brought to her mother attention, for instance her mother’s checking account and the lack of money there within, get a lawyer to handle the sale and negotiations and maybe be put on a budget. After arriving she finds out that there has been a murder, not just any murder, the victim has had a vital body part removed.

“Who would do such a thing and what did they do with it afterward,” said Kimberly Claypoole.

Then Kimberly finds out that the man trying to buy the radio station is buying up the property all around it including her friend Amy’s family place but yet no one has ever met him much less has seen him. Not even a week after refusing his offer Amy’s brother is in jail for the murder of Kimberly’s cousin.  The police receive an anonymous tip implicating Amy’s brother and the weapon was found under his bed. Now Amy will have to get a lawyer and to do that they have to sell the family property. Amy has asked Kimberly to help prove her brother’s innocence.

Kimberly is beginning to believe all of this has something to do with “Jimmy’s Place” and the dancer that works there. After hanging around “Jimmy’s Place” and finding out that the dancer had been seeing both victims, Kimberly starts trailing her but when Kimberly starts asking questions, people start dying.

What is happening to this small town? The unexpected turn of events will shake loose the very core of this city and the answer to, “Where would someone keep such a thing?” will be answered and it will have you seeing things in your kitchen differently.

Will feelings override everything or will this murderer interrupt them permanently. Will Kimberly find out before its too late for herself and her friend Amy?

This story will keep you guessing up to the very end the ending is fantastic and surprising.