Anne's Reviews > Battered and Buried

Battered and Buried by Lena Gregory is the next in a really fun series, featuring Gia and her best, bud, Savannah who run a cafe in Florida, is a huge change from New York. Gia had had a very tough time there until Savannah convinced her to relocate and it had been nothing but good. Well, except for the raccoon who kept tearing up her garbage and was now trapped in her car. She had friends, was engaged to a lovely man who had wanted her enough that he waited until she was ready, and she had her cafe. Then, one morning a man came in and complained, at the top of his lungs. He was rude and unreasonable. Cole, her cook, came out to back her up until the police arrived, and it turned out he knew the jerk. Then, sadly, the next day he discovered his “friend” murdered and he was the main suspect. Now everyone knew he would never kill anyone but the evidence was mounting up. Was he being framed?

Gia couldn’t let it go. She and Savannah were creative and intelligent investigators, although neither her fiance (a police detective) or Savannah’s husband( also a detective) were happy with their antics. The dead man had a girl friend, but slept also with a friend of his wife’s. The wife had a boyfriend. There was a lot going on here. Meanwhile, the cafe was busy, Cole wasn’t always there, and Gia and Savannah were off following leads. Their friend, Alfie, was a computer genius and found things, mostly legally, that broke the case wide open. It was a good mystery, although there was foreshadowing aplenty. I never did get a good feel for the murderer’s motive, but all’s well that ends well. Thank you Lena Gregory for another fun visit with Gia and the gang.

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