Candy-Coated Secrets: A Summer Meadows Mystery

by Cynthia Hickey

Book Overview

A horn blaresA crashSomebody screamsWhen a carnival train crashes in front of Summer Meadows's house, she does what comes naturally - she acts without thinking and volunteers to lead an elephant to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602601852
• ISBN13: 9781602601857
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful page turner

This book is a page turner with the mystery that leaves you quessing until the end. A great read.

Fun, adventure and chocolate too!

Summer Meadows doesn't seek out trouble, but it seems to find her at every turn. It's not Summer's fault when a carnival train crashes in front of her house. And what Christian-minded, kind-hearted young woman wouldn't agree to help out in the midst of the chaos? But only Summer is likely to take on single-handedly escorting a cantankerous elephant to the fairgrounds. A full mile. On foot. The elephant's trainer is nowhere to be found when Summer finally arrives, towing her over-sized charge. By now, having been sprayed with the contents of the animal's nose and repeatedly pushed and shoved by its massive trunk, our heroine is more than a little ill-tempered. She sets off in search of the missing woman, but finds instead a dead body hanging in a shower. It's plainly murder, and the feisty candy-store owner can't be persuaded to stay out of it. What follows is a carnival house of fun and folly when wanna-be sleuth Summer, Aunt Eunice, and even boyfriend Ethan - to the extreme frustration of Summer's cousin, the chief of police - poke into shadowy corners of a third-rate carnival/circus seeking answers that become more elusive with every clue. Candy-Coated Secrets is number two in the Summer Meadows Mystery collection from Heartsong Presents Mysteries. Author Cynthia Hickey delivers a well-written tale packed plumb full of family fun, quirky humor, a few moments of truly scary suspense, and even some porch swing romancin'. Truly enjoyable. Y'all won't wanta miss this little candy-coated confection!