Tagged for Death
Series: A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery Book #1
Author: Sherry Harris
Publisher: Kensington Books
Page Count: 304
My Rating:
Book Summary
Starting your life over at age thirty-eight isn’t easy, but that’s what Sarah Winston finds herself facing when her husband CJ runs off with a 19-year-old temptress named Tiffany. Sarah’s self-prescribed therapy happily involves hitting all the garage and tag sales in and around her small town of Ellington, Massachusetts. If only she could turn her love for bargain hunting into a full-time career.
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.
But after returning from a particularly successful day searching for yard sale treasures, Sarah finds a grisly surprise in one of her bags: a freshly bloodied shirt…that undoubtedly belongs to her ex, CJ, who now happens to be Ellington’s chief of police. If that’s not bad enough, it seems Tiffany has gone missing. Now it’s up to Sarah to prove that her cold-hearted ex is not a cold-blooded killer…
But finding that treasure can be murder.
More Facts for Readers about our Sleuth:
Main Sleuth: Sarah Winston (age 38)
Business: former Air Force wife, now a divorcee who organizes garage sales
Pet: None
Best-Friend(s): Carol Carson, although she doesn’t help with sleuthing
Love Interest: CJ, the ex husband, and Seth, a DA
Family: they’re long distance and live in California
Location: small town called Ellington, MA outside the Fitch Air Force Base
Any Cussing? No, none that I can recall
My Review
I couldn’t put down ‘Tagged for Death’, book 1 in the Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery series by Sherry Harris. I really appreciated the more grizzly, realistic aspects of this mystery. It rides the edge just this side of cozy, and I love it. Take for example, the finding of the remains, it’s described realistically and actually paints a disturbing image in our minds as we’re reading along and learning more about the victim and the people in their life. Even our main sleuth Sarah has very real and unfortunate circumstances surrounding her. There is harassment, affairs, stalking, murder, and scandal peppered throughout the book, and our heart can’t help but cry out for our main sleuth. It was a nice change of pace and I’m anxious to get to book 2.
