Pub Date
Jun 01 2025
| Archive Date
Jul 01 2025
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Description
They solved a murder before prom—now they’re retired,
nosy as ever, and dead set on cracking one last case before someone
signs them up for chair yoga and a senior discount.
When Emma Lynn Whitmore returns to her childhood home in
Savannah after losing her husband, she expects peace, maybe a little
porch-sitting—not a fifty-year-old mystery clawing its way out of the
attic. A faded photograph, a broken promise, and a name no one’s dared
mention in decades all point to one thing: Delilah didn’t run away. She
vanished.
Teaming up with her old high school
partners-in-crime-solving—sharp-tongued Margaret and quietly brilliant
Graham—Emma Lynn dives headfirst into a Southern tangle of missing land
deeds, whispered family names, and secrets buried deeper than a
Lowcountry grave.
Armed with charm, determination, and a collective disregard for
their doctor’s advice, the trio sets out to finish what Delilah
started—no matter who’s still trying to keep it buried.
Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries with heart, Southern sass,
and sleuths who’ve traded curfews for reading glasses—but haven’t lost
their taste for trouble.
advance praise:
A beautifully written Southern mystery with heart, humor, and just the
right touch of haunt. Emma Lynn and her friends are the kind of sleuths
you’ll want to follow through every shadowy secret.
MY REVIEW-
And super smart Graham-
MY REVIEW- 5 STARS TITLE- INTENSE Drama with Sass
I really liked this story that had sassy southern "charm" and sarcasm. Emma Lynn was charming, astute, and she noticed things that others didn't. She began to have some prophetic dreams of Delilah that surprise Emma !. That stirred her even more to dig for the truth.
Emma Lynn, the southern way of saying names down there reminded me of what happens when my husband goes with me "down south." That's right, I'm a Northerner. But I love the south. I just don't want my name spoken with my middle name included. That's why family don't know what it is. Lol.
Emma pulls in her sassy, talented friend Margaret, who works in the
library and knows how to pull the very information that they need. She's direct and blunt but also caring when it comes to Emma and Graham. Emma's other friend, Graham is Super-smart and compassionate and very easy to like. I almost made the title of this review- "Emma, friends & Murder to be solved." Because they do. With cunning, cleverness and humor. I loved that They weren't going to let the Vanishing of Delilah Grace Hart, go quietly into the night.
Delilah Hart and her daughter Eva Hart Simmons,
were such sad people in the story. Eva's epileptic son was also stolen
from because of all of this. Stolen from and attempts to erase all of them as
though they never lived, loved or thrived in any ways at all. They were
poor but that's no excuse to what they did to them ! To steal land from
them to prosper from it and to kill to keep it ! And the sleuths and Eva just aren't going to put up with it even when things get tough and they do !
Smug, Mason Blake was designed for me to hate and I did ! Him and those who helped him ! There were several surprises about that and I loved that too. They were being watched and being sent secret notes and warning. Short but threatening... saying in one form or another, "Stop digging."
On a finally note, although they were SO MANY witty things spoken and written in this story, but I do have a favorite. When hysterically but oh so stern, direct, proper, caring Margaret had this said about her by Emma. "If this mysterious messenger thought a few cryptic notes would undo us, he really, really should've read Margaret's Yelp review" I almost fell down laughing ! Had to read it over a few times and giggle.!
There is also a mention of the first book where this group first solved a murder, it was free so I got it. It's called "Buried Beneath the Ivy" by Veronica Mixon."
I read this book through Netgalley.
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