It’s the holiday season in this funny mystery series

Dressed Up 4 Murder (Sophie Kimball Mystery Book 6)

By: J.C. Eaton

Rating: 5 of 5

It’s the holiday season in Sun City West, the retirement community where most of the action in this series takes place. It starts with Halloween, moves rapidly to Thanksgiving and finishes off with Christmas.

What better way to celebrate the season than dressing up your dog to be a contestant in the Precious Pooches Holiday Extravaganza costume contest? At least, that is what Sophie Kimball (know to most as Phee) finds that is her mother’s way of celebrating the holidays.

Streeman, the dog in question, throws everything for a loop when he finds a dead body in the backyard of the house just behind his owner’s. Phee is brought in to investigate even though she is just an accountant at a private detective agency. That doesn’t make a bit of difference to her mother who insists Phee must have some investigative skills that rubbed off in the course of her work.

Phee, along with the detectives at the agency (including her main squeeze), are on the case. It gets bigger by leaps and bounds and the whodunnit is interesting and was not something that I had guessed though the clues were in place.

I must admit, the costumes of the dogs and the attitudes of their owners were what had me laughing throughout the book.

I’ve read this series from the beginning and will be looking forward to reading more in the future. This book can be read stand-alone but I highly suggest started from book 1 and reading forward to understand how the characters and the story line have progressed to the point where this book begins.

I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher via Netgalley.