The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn — Joan Hess

Claire Malloy here. The mock murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn, designed to let me and other amateur sleuths try our skills, sounded too fun to pass up. When we arrived, it was hard to tell the guests from the actors, and it was good I'd brought my daughter Caron along. The first cryptic clues provided by the organizers meant nothing to me until she unraveled them. Still, the fiction--fun as it was--didn't last long. Harmon, the gifted leader of the theater group helping to stage the event, was more successful at playing a corpse than he'd ever intended, Of course, he had help--somebody had bashed in his head. Suddenly our game turned to deadly earnest....