Wrong Beach Island

Meg has become one of my favorite heroines over the course of the three books in this series. She is flawed without being too hapless. She relates the stories in an amusing patter of what she thinks, says and does, and what the would like to say and do. Jane Kelly is skillfully threading a fine line, from my point of view. I generally don't like farce mixed with serious material - I want my farce off the wall or not at all. Kelly, on the other hand, succeeds in portraying that farce of a life with a light hand that that is ruefully reminiscent of follies we all engage in without going overboard into seeming simply stupid. I am glad to see a brief return of Claud and George, owners of the bed and breakfast that were the scene of Meg's last misadventures. I love those two characters, I think they'd make a great spinoff. I'm eagerly looking forward to further adventures.

Good suspense and plenty of nostalgia in reading the descriptions of places familiar to me.

Highly entertaining. I read it because I am an annual visitor to Long Beach Island and was pleasantly surprised to find it engrosssing and very humorous. I hadn't really been expecting much. Liked it enough to want to read the author's other offerings.

I'm glad Jane Kelly gave me a chance to welcome back Meg and Andy, personalized with their witty dialog and wry humor, while they are involved in a murder investigation with many more twists and turns than LBIs main drag. My trips to the Jersey shore are usually a bit south of LBI, but I want to take the time to make a visit this summer and see some of the places Jane took Meg and Andy. I think I'll stop at every diner I see on the way just for good measure.