Meg Spencer has seen a lot of dead bodies in her time. Thirty years as a homicide detective will do that to a person.

But in all that time, Meg has never once been charged with murder. That only happened AFTER she retired.

Meg is resolved to find the killer herself, and it looks like she's going to have to, since an officious middle-management cop has swooped into Landsend like a vulture, determined to pin the crime on her and get a quick conviction he can add to his record.

Can Meg solve this crime before she spends the rest of her retirement behind bars?

Welcome to a new series of cozy mysteries by Pamela Kenney featuring a recently retired homicide detective from Toronto, trying to find a quiet, peaceful life in Victoria. Unfortunately, everywhere she goes, she finds murder and mayhem.

Her old co-workers warned her this would happen but she refuses to become the next Miss Marple.

Even if it kills her.

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If Miss Marple and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel were one person, she'd be Meg Spencer, running around Vancouver Island trying to find a peaceful retirement but only getting into trouble instead. Each one of Meg's adventures is a self-contained mystery short, perfect for the busy person: to make time fly when waiting in line or to savour with morning coffee.

Pamela Kenney writes a lot of mysteries, from noir to cozies, but they always have a touch of humour. Even her non–fiction is humorous, like an essay she wrote that was published in the Globe and Mail.