Martini Regrets
Phyllis Smallman
TouchWood Editions, Sep 23 2014, $14.95
www.touchwoodeditions.com
ISBN: 9781771510905
After having one last drink with a friend in Miami, Sherri Travis breaks
her dad’s admonition to never drive across the Everglades at night. However, she needs gas to complete her trek
through the swamp to Jacaranda, Florida
where she lives with her fiancé Clay Adams and owns the Sunset Bar and
Grill. At a station, she hears a boy
pleading with the female attendant to save his life. When she refuses, he hits Sherri and takes
her car. The girl is also gone as two
“swamp rats” arrive. Sherri takes cover
in a pipe and then the swamp before finding a nursery with a murder victim
inside. She recovers her car and gets
home, but vows to say nothing.
Sherri learns that the nursery was burned down with a couple
inside dead. She soon has a visit from
the late nursery owner’s affluent brother Ethan seeking information on a
special orchard his sibling allegedly possessed. Helping Clay with his business and coming to
the bar, enables Ethan to become part of their lives though Sherri wishes he
would leave. Ethan won’t because he
knows the bartender is the last living person to have been in the nursery.
The latest Sherri Travis Mystery (see
Highball Exit, A Brewski For The Old Man
and Margarita Nights) is a twisting thriller filled with people ready to kill
to possess a rare orchard. The heroine’s
time in the Glades is incredible as we will feel lost too; while her efforts to
stay out of the mess fails because obsessive collectors know where she has been. With an unexpected shocker and a reluctant
amateur sleuth, Martini Regrets is a fantastic crime drama.
Harriet Klausner
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