Connect the Dots
(Mah Jongg Mysteries)
by Barbara Barrett
About the Book
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Bowker (February 2, 2019)
Paperback: 278 pages
ISBN-10: 194853214X
ISBN-13: 978-1948532143
Digital ASIN: B07NCB5199
ReviewHow could a thirty-something man fall to his death from a fourth-floor balcony he knows is defective? That’s the question freelance writer Micki Demetrius is asked to answer by the man’s grieving mother, Clarissa White, who refuses to believe his death was an unfortunate accident. But when the authorities determine it was homicide, Micki is shut out of her investigative efforts.Giving up is easier said than done for Micki. She can’t resist a mystery, and suspicious characters won’t leave Clarissa alone, from the woman claiming a stake in the victim’s life to a cagey character who wants his business. As the threat to Clarissa grows, Micki feels compelled to help her in spite of the danger.Micki’s three mah jongg pals—Sydney Bonner, Marianne Putnam and Katrina, Kat, Faulkner—are drawn into the mystery, but the retirees have their own challenges. Syd and husband Trip do grandparent duty while their daughter deals with marital issues. Marianne “finds herself” by writing a one-act play. And Kat must decide how public to go with her growing friendship with the sheriff. Together, they must connect the dots in a nefarious web of greed, neglect, secrecy and murder.
It is a great book in which in addition to the mystery to be solved, the protagonist is friendship, it was very fun to read the adventures of Micki and her formidable group of friends.
Micki is a freelance with considerable investigative skills. Clarissa, one of the Mah Jongg players, asks for her help. She has just bought a new apartment but it has several structural defects. She asks Micki to investigate and the situation gets worse when Clarissa's son dies falling right from the house's crumbling balcony.
It's the third book in the series but I did not need to read books one and two to have an understanding of the story.
this book is a fun and entertaining mystery that I enjoyed from beginning to end. It's filled with interesting, realistic characters and a plot that will keep you turning pages all the way to the reveal at the end.
It was very interesting to watch some Mah Jongg games I always played online I didn't know that you could play physically too
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a riveting story.
Micki is a freelance with considerable investigative skills. Clarissa, one of the Mah Jongg players, asks for her help. She has just bought a new apartment but it has several structural defects. She asks Micki to investigate and the situation gets worse when Clarissa's son dies falling right from the house's crumbling balcony.
It's the third book in the series but I did not need to read books one and two to have an understanding of the story.
this book is a fun and entertaining mystery that I enjoyed from beginning to end. It's filled with interesting, realistic characters and a plot that will keep you turning pages all the way to the reveal at the end.
It was very interesting to watch some Mah Jongg games I always played online I didn't know that you could play physically too
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a riveting story.
About the Author
Barbara Barrett started reading mysteries when she was pregnant with her first child to keep her mind off things like her changing body and food cravings. When she’d devoured as many Agatha Christies as she could find, she branched out to English village cozies and Ellery Queen.
Later, to avoid a midlife crisis, she began writing fiction at night when she wasn’t at her day job as a human resources analyst for Iowa State Government. After releasing eleven full-length romance novels and one novella, she returned to the cozy mystery genre, using one of her retirement pastimes, the game of mah jongg, as her inspiration. Not only has it been a great social outlet, it has also helped keep her mind active when not writing.
Bamboozled, the second book in her “Mah Jongg Mystery” series, features four friends who play mah jongg together and share otherwise in each other’s lives. None of the four is based on an actual person. Each is an amalgamation of several mah jongg friends with a lot of Barbara’s imagination thrown in for good measure. The four will continue to appear in future books in the series.
Anticipating the day when she would write her first mystery, she has been a member of the Mystery/Romantic Suspense chapter of Romance Writers of America for over a decade. She credits them with helping her hone her craft.
Barbara is married to the man she met her senior year of college. They have two grown children and eight grandchildren.
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Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed this book and hope your readers will check it out as well.
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