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Tori Miracle and her friend Alice-Ann are inspecting one of Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania's historic homes. Tori has been talked into writing the brochure for this year's tour of 6 of the Stately Homes of the town and this will be the first time that Morgan Manor will be part of the circuit. In the spring house on the property, they find the skeleton of a man, dressed in the remains of a tuxedo. Years before, Rodney Mellott, the high school music teacher, had disappeared on his wedding day. Several weeks later, the bride left town, supposedly to meet Rodney and elope, Occasional postcards from the couple were sent back to Lickin Creek for years afterwards. This is obviously Rodney's skeleton. He hadn't left town. Alice-Ann convinces Tori not to mention anything about the skeleton because it would ruin the house tour which raises lots of money, and against her better judgment, Tori agrees. The next house to be written up is The Bride's House. It's the house in which Rodney's affianced lived and is currently being redone as a bed and breakfast. It's also the time the borough picks up large items of trash, and Tori gets roped into helping remove some old stuff from the house. Tori is fascinated to see men in pickup trucks trolling the streets for discarded items like leather sofas, old trunks. etc. Later, at a community concert, the bones of a woman and a wedding dress are found in one of those old trunks when the trunk collapses while being used as a seat. Tori is, of course, the outsider, and all the problems of the town are blamed on her. It's been a running gag throughout the series. But even though this tale tales place in a small Pennsylvania Dutch town and has the form of an classical English village mystery, even to Tori's cats, it is not a cozy. Some horrid things have happened in Lickin Creek and Tori happens to be the one to ferret them out. DEATH PAYS THE ROSE RENT, the first in the series, seems to be out of print, but all the others are still available. Many thanks are also due to Meredith Phillips and Perseverance Press for signing Malmont after her large New York publisher dropped her.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, March 2003
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