Miss Frost Ices The Imp: A Nocturne Falls Mystery by Kristen PainterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jayne, now officially the manager of the Santa store in Nocturne Falls, goes wandering early one morning to find things to ‘personalize’ her apartment. Wandering that includes visiting estate sales. Where she buys a velvet Elvis painting (a cat dressed up like Elvis), another painting, salt shakers, a rug, and a decorative box that she can’t open. Which leads to . . . well, stuff, but I’ll skip that stuff to get to . . . leads to her cat, naturally, knocking the box off a table, which causes the top to pop open. Jayne wasn’t in the room at the time, though she heard it.
In rapid succession of weirdness, Jayne realizes that ‘stuff’ is happening. Numero Uno – someone is in her apartment talking! Jayne finally tracks down her unexpected visitor only to find that it’s Spider. Her cat. Who can now talk – English. Numero due involves Dr. Pepper, but let’s move on.
Weridness spreads through the small town – a woman who exits a shower to find that she has become a smurf (okay, just that her skin has been turned blue), a fire engine is on top of the firehouse, the town stinks of fish, etc. Naturally the entire town, and I mean the entire town, blames Jayne so she has to ‘solve the mystery’. Which involves an Imp. Which I mention, because that’s in the book title.
Good solid story.
Rating: 3.75
February 14 2018
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