What The Hatmaker Heard

Bride-to-be Lorelei Honeycutt is brimming with excitement over the elaborate headpiece Missy has created for her wedding but fears she won’t be able to maintain her balance when she walks down the aisle. She’s asked Missy to assist her during the rehearsal at Honeycutt Hall, a once-grand sugar plantation now used as the family’s home. Missy’s trying to keep a cool head herself, as her own wedding is coming up in three short weeks on the Riverboat Queen. But after the rehearsal, she overhears the bride and groom quarreling. The next morning, Wesley Carmichael is missing. After searching the house and grounds, Missy discovers the groom lying at the bottom of an old, unused sugar silo—and now it’s up to the mystery-solving milliner to find an unbalanced killer.

Series: A Missy Dubois Mystery – Book #6
Author: Sandra Bretting
Genre: Cozy Mystery/Fashion
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Page Count: 168

Rating:

The sixth book in the “A Missy Dubois Mystery “milliner series What The Hatmaker Heard by Sandra Bretting is out now. This is a delightful series about a hatmaker and her many adventures into murder. Readers are thrilled with this latest addition.

This isn’t Missy’s first time creating a unique veil for a bride, and hopefully, it won’t be her last either. As a milliner, Missy excels, but investigating murders seems to have become her forte. Her talent with her creations is known far and wide, but so is her apparent ability to find dead bodies. This time she finds the groom dead and a plethora of suspects. Every character is a suspect, right down to the groom’s parents and sister. Missy’s fiance plays a small part in this book, but he shines in the last chapter.

The motive and the subsequent perpetrator aren’t too hard to figure out, but the red herrings and twists keep readers turning the page to find out if they are right. I wish there had been more about Missy’s hat shop, and the author would have described her milliner work in more depth. For a first time reader of this series, it would bode well for a bit more background on Missy and the supporting cast.

Overall I enjoyed What The Hatmaker Heard and would be happy to read the next addition to the series. I highly recommend this book and series to readers who enjoy a different profession, like that of a milliner, and those who like fashion or wedding themes in their cozies.

If readers enjoyed “What The Hatmaker Heard,” they may wish to give Duffy Brown’s enjoyable “A Consignment Shop Mystery” or Jenn McKinlay’s milliner based “A Hat Shop Mystery” series a read.

About the Author:

Sandra was born in Southern California but moved to the Midwest to attend the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She found her true calling when she took a creative writing class, and another student assumed she’d come to Mizzou to be a novelist.

Sandra returned to California to freelance for the Los Angeles Times and also took every creative writing course she could get her hands on. Today Sandra lives in Texas, where she writes cozy mysteries and enjoys life with her husband, daughters, and one slaphappy rescue dog.

Represented by the Blue Ridge Literary Agency, LLC.

Contact Sandra: sandra@sandrabretting.com

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