Cassie Pengear thought
a visit to the carnival would be fun: see some shows, eat some sweets, help her
landlady’s nephew decide if the cowboy was real or an actor. But then the
cowboy shot the volunteer, and he didn’t get up. Now Cassie has a ten-year-old
boy insisting the cowboy isn’t a killer and a landlady insisting she help solve
the killing at the carnival. 29,000 words, print version 126 pages
Killing At The Carnival (Cozy
Steampunk Mystery)
“Cassie Pengear Mysteries
Book #1”
By L. A. Nisula
ISBN #B00RHWHOBM
Amazon
Kindle
Price
$0.99
126
Pages
Rating
5-Stars
“A
Fast Fun Read.”
Cassie Pengear, an
American in London, does some typing for Scotland Yard. This usually throws her
into some investigations of her own; something Inspector Burroughs wants her to
stay out of. In fact, in this current case she stumbles into innocently enough,
involves a carnival that may be mixed up in a bank robbery five years previous.
Unknown to Cassie, Scotland Yard has the Kingston Carnival under observation
when she takes her landlord’s ten year old nephew to see cowboy trick shooter
Nick Culpepper perform his western act. But when a person from the audience is
shot dead by the cowboy in the trick-shooting act, she’s in the audience to
witness the killing. Ten-year-old Davy Hawkin tells her that Cowboy Nick didn’t
kill the victim, and it’s up to Cassie to prove his innocence.
Okay, I admit it, I
love stories set at the circus or a carnival, so I jumped at the chance to read
this fast-moving short novel, and I wasn’t disappointed. Well written, with a
nice plot, and interesting characters, it kept my interest from the first page.
There is no deep mystery for us to solve, it’s a cozy after all, very short and
fun. A quick read in only a couple of hours, it still gives the reader their
money’s worth. Readers who enjoy a light mystery set in steampunk will enjoy
this new series. Highly recommended.
Tom
Johnson
Detective
Mystery Stories
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