Beware
False Profits
A
Ministry is Murder Mystery with Aggie Sloan-Wilcox
Emilie
Richards
Berkley
Prime Crime (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-425-21868-6 (0425218686)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-21868-6 (9780425218686)
Publication Date: November 2007
List Price: $6.99
Synopsis (from
the publisher): There's no rest for the weary Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and
her minister husband, who were praying for a relaxing weekend until a
member of their flock went missing.
Joe Wagner, president of Emerald Springs's food bank, disappears, and
Aggie discovers his secret life-as a female impersonator. Meanwhile,
the murder of the mayor's wife at the annual food bank fundraiser puts
Joe on top of the suspect list. If Aggie doesn't get to the bottom of
things fast, she'll be leading a choir singing the blues.
Review:
Emilie Richards' third amusing mystery in the Ministry is Murder
series, Beware
False Profits, has amateur
sleuth Aggie Sloan-Wilcox taking a break from the hard work of real
life to look into the circumstances surrounding the murder of the
mayor's wife.
Aggie and her minister husband Ed have been helping to organize a
magnificent May Day celebration at the local fair grounds. The
beneficiary of the festivities is a charitable organization, Helping
Hands, which supplies food to those in need. Before the event, Joe
Wagner, the director of Helping Hands, leaves Ohio for his monthly trip
to New York, supposedly to attend a meeting of the national committee.
Aggie and Ed, having agreed they need a rest from the hubbub of the
final planning of the celebration, decide to spend a weekend in New
York. There, purely by accident, they find Joe working in the Pussycat
Club as a female impersonator – his escape from a not too
perfect marriage and his mission to discover the truth about himself
and his life in Ohio. Aggie and Joe agree to keep Joe’s
secret. Back home, the May Day celebration begins without Joe as the
fortune teller; Aggie’s mother fills in for him. She predicts
that Hazel, Mayor Brown’s wife, would have a long and
prosperous life. Soon thereafter, Hazel drops dead at the fair grounds.
Aggie immediately becomes involved, much to the dismay of Ed and
Detective Roussos, after she finds out that Hazel had been murdered.
When Detective Roussos asked her why she feels she must help in solving
a police crime, she tells him she is not investigating the murder,
she’s just helping to prove that Mayor Brown didn’t
commit the murder. She thinks that surely he could understand the
difference.
Emilie Richards has created a truly delightful and in many ways
original character in Aggie Sloan-Wilcox. Add in scandal, deception,
and murder (to name but three) in a small "homey" town in mid-America
and the result is the perfect combination for a humorous mystery. Beware False Profits
will certainly be praised (sorry, couldn't resist) by all.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Beware False Profits and to Book Trends for providing a copy of the book for this review.
Review Copyright © 2007 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
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ISBN-10: 0-425-20724-2 (0425207242)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-20724-6 (9780425207246)
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Beware False Profits
Berkley Prime Crime (Mass Market Paperback), November 2007
ISBN-10: 0-425-21868-6 (0425218686)
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-21868-6 (9780425218686)
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