Reviews for Death in a mood indigo

The average rating for Death in a mood indigo based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-03 00:00:00 Steven Meier Three and a half stars. When a dog and two children find a skeleton in the dunes at Sconset beach, news travels fast through Nantucket. Is this dead woman another victim of the serial killer who has been active in Mainland Massachusetts? The FBI seems to think that is a distinct possibility and send detectives and heir forensic psychiatrist Dr Tucker Enright to the scene. But Police Detective Merry Folger has her own suspicions about the murderer. The more Merry investigates, the more she uncover links to various people on the island. Can she find the murderer before he strikes again and again? Could Merry herself be in danger? I enjoyed this murder mystery even though I picked the murderer very early on and never wavered from it. But since that is often the case when Ii read these type of books, it didn't really deter me from enjoying it. Though I had not read the first two books in the series, I quickly warmed to Merry. I liked the way the relationship between her and her love interest, Peter Mason is portrayed and we see her vulnerability. It took me a long while to read this book but that was not because it didn't hold my interest. Just life getting in the way of reading time. An interesting read with well- drawn characters and a great setting, especially events like Daffodil time and its effect on the community. I liked the way the strands of the case were woven together. Well, written if perhaps a tad obvious at times what was going on. Not perfect but still well worth reading. Great cover!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-29 00:00:00 Janet Hudson This was a really solid installment in the Merry Folger series. We see Merry developing more as a character, both on her own and as her relationship with Peter Mason deepens. And the mystery in this book was thrilling. Things get started when 2 young children playing on a Nantucket beach dig up part of a human skeleton. The central mystery is a cold case and these can be tough to make exciting, as the typical cold case investigation involves going back over lots of old paperwork. First, the police must identify the victim (and there are several possibilities at first) and from there, figure out who killed this person, when was the skeleton actually left on the beach, etc... It's a puzzle that takes Merry into a close-knit and eccentric circle of artists on the island, and the case parades readers through many twists and turns. The author does one thing with this mystery that I really appreciated as well. In many books I've read, solutions seem to come out of nowhere and the detective is the only one privy to the operative facts. In this book, the reader gets a fair shot at figuring things out, too. As the solution comes together, one of the first things I realized is that the important clues were all laid out in the story, so as a reader, I had just as much to work with as Merry did. In a way, that makes me appreciate her character (and the author's skill) even more.