Professionalism is one thing, confidence another. A local Indian
tribe, the Kanache, asks California P.I. Hermione Daggert to find the man who
camped out on their reservation over a year before. Filled with confidence, her
qualifying exam behind her, she sees only a find-the-man assignment. How hard
can it be? However, over the past year, that section of the reservation has gone
from withered and uninhabitable to aggressively hostile. When the land claims
the life of a beautiful San Tobino socialite in a fiery car crash, Hermione
gets a new client. Her job? Find out why.
Reservation Ravaged (Cozy
Mystery)
By JoAnna Senger
ISBN #978-1937769338
Price $11.66
183 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“Entertaining And Easy
Reading.”
The mythical town of San Tobino, California, and
characters from “Betrothal, Betrayal, And Blood,“ return in this new mystery. Denning
& Daggert Investigations is hired by the Kanache Indian tribe to
investigate a possible curse on their land. The land of the reservation appears
ravaged, and nothing will grow there except thorny weeds, scorpions, and
rattlesnakes. A young boy falls into a ravine, losing a leg in the accident,
and the land seems cursed. Newly licensed private investigator, and partner in
the investigative company, Hermione Daggert is assigned the case. Following leads, she discovers that the chief
– Broken Drum – had ran a Gypsy family off the land the previous year, and
since then their land has been dying, and the accident of the young boy
happened. Hermione finds the family, and learns that they did, indeed, place a
curse on the reservation. The Kanache accepts her findings and sell the land.
The new owner sets up an Institute of Holistic Health school, but more
accidents happen. The police think there may be murder involved. Again,
Hermione is hired to investigate the new accidents on the land, this time by
the new owner.
Hermione was a waitress at Milady’s, the setting of
JoAnna’s previous novel, but now works with P.I. Emma Denning, and assisted by
police detectives Karl Kelly and Vito Kostowski. The story was easy reading, and
the characters interesting, but the mystery unraveled a bit too easy. To be
honest there was a lack of suspense, and I’m not sure if the case was actually
solved by anyone, or just by dumb luck. However, it was a good mystery, and the
writing is superb. Cozy mystery lovers will find it a lot of fun. Highly
recommended.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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