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March 14, 2010
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 | Vi Agra Falls by Mary Daheim | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner |  | Publisher: Morrow
http://www.harpercollins
ISBN: 0061351547
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Mystery
Release date: August 2008
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Price: $23.95
| In Seattle, Judith McMonigle Flynn owns and manages the Hillside Manor bed-and-breakfast. However, domestic tranquility and bliss vanish rather quickly when Joe’s former wife, “Her” with the ample cleavage as always openly on display, nouveau riche Vivian, arrives. Accompanying her is her much younger boy toy spouse, former minor league baseball player Billy “Blunder” Buss.
However the Heraldsgate Hill cul de sac resident,s including Judith, her cousin Remy, and Joe are horrifically stunned when Vivian announces plans to build an ostentatious condo complex amidst their homes. Adding to the growing fiasco is the arrival of Billy’s brother Frankie and his wife, Marva Lou, who stay at the B&B. Frankie is irate that his late father left a fortune to his trophy wife, Vivian. When a corpse is found behind Vivian’s new home, Judith can’t help herself. She starts investigating, though she denies to Remy every sleuthing step of involvement she takes.
This long-running cozy keeps its freshness with the interrelationships, many dysfunctional among the cast, including the cousins. The story line is fast-paced from the onset; as an eccentric horde invades the Heraldsgate Hill neighborhood, causing havoc to the residents and amusement for the reader. The investigation is cleverly handled to add to the overall fun of exacerbation; as Judith reconsiders her second time with Joe, due to his eccentric people invading their people. | | |
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