Vengeance Is Mine: A Chautauqua Murder Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781723179822)

Vengeance is Mine is the fifth book in Deb Pines' traditional whodunit Chautauqua Mysteries featuring the wise and witty reporter sleuth of a certain age Mimi Goldman.

"An Agatha Christie for the text-message age," IndieReader calls the series.

It's the Fourth of July in 2017 when this mystery starts with a bang. Maureen Donahue, a Black Lives Matter filmmaker and speaker at the historic Chautauqua Institution, is killed at a raucous holiday concert -- amid the orchestra's roar and audience's popping paper bags, to simulate cannon fire at the end of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture."

A stalker who followed Donahue to Chautauqua, a peaceful, leafy, cottage-filled, lakeside summer arts community, is quickly arrested.

The stalker's brother asks Mimi to help clear him. She's skeptical. She has her own wedding to plan. But, of course, the Chautauquan Daily reporter and relentless snoop, can't resist.

With help from her computer-savvy son Jake, Mimi sifts through layers of secrets -- of a shadowy piano teacher, a racist personal trainer and chatty chime-master, among others -- and realizes: she's been asking all the wrong questions.

The right ones unearth an ugly buried secret that puts Mimi close, maybe too close, to the real killer.

Fans of Agatha Christie and Louise Penny and "Only Murders in the Building" will enjoy this twist-filled mystery Kirkus Reviews calls, "An engaging mystery with a late twist and an especially satisfying ending."

Author: Deb Pines
ISBN-10: 1723179825
ISBN-13: 9781723179822
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2018
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2018
Indie Reader 09/24/2018