Reese Witherspoon’s September Book Club pick, Mother-Daughter Murder Night is a fun whodunnit in which a grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter become involved in solving a murder, but in doing so, learn so much more about each other and themselves. These women, each with their own style of dress, ideas and thought processes all come to this mystery with a different way of handling things. But this is a family affair and family come first even when dealing with a dead body!
The Rubicon women are Lana (the grandmother) who is going through cancer treatments. With a flourishing career in Los Angeles, she has had to move back to the quiet little town her daughter Beth lives in. Beth (the daughter) is a caregiver at a senior facility. She and her daughter Jack, (Lana’s granddaughter) a teenager who works as a kayaking guide must somehow now all live together under the same roof. Needless to say, it’s way too close for comfort.
But when a body is found in the water by Jack and she becomes the prime suspect in a murder, the mother-daughter duo must begin to investigate the situation much against the advice of two angry detectives. And Jack certainly wants in!
What they begin to discover is as mysterious as the murder itself. Where did the body come from? Could it have been dumped from someplace else and the tide moved it? Is it possible Jack’s boss the owner of the kayak business who himself is acting pretty suspicious had something to do with the murder? And by the way, who is the dead guy?
Then one of Beth’s seniors dies in his sleep at the facility. That’s when the investigation takes a curious turn. The women discover that the murder could be tied to this wealthy patriarch who owns a large amount of land that just happens to be near where they body could have been disposed. Now, the two adult children are fighting with a someone who says they are in possession of a deed to the land that says their father did not want them to have the land. And that’s when everything begins to get interesting and dangerous.
They continue investigating in their own “special” ways, with Lana fighting for her life as well as those she loves. They start to lean on each other and begin to try and sort out past problems which were never resolved, spoken about misunderstood or forgiven.
Mother-Daughter Murder Night is a Murder She Wrote like amateur crime-solving mystery with three smart, snarky, brave women who just happen to be related. It’s clever, it’s funny and it’s sentimental. Just a wonderful old-fashioned cozy with a modern-day twist.
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