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When Hollywood comes to small-town Connecticut, it should be the stuff of dreams—but when a fading movie star ends up dead, a whole different kind of stuff hits the fan.

Unity Historical Society head and antique household items—stuff!—expert Christian Shaw is on set when actor Brett Studebaker falls from the pulpit during a streaming service shoot in an old church. She, the “dads she should have had,” Garrett and Ed, her son Henry, who has a photographic memory and Type-1 Diabetes, and her colorful friends end up helping Assistant State’s Attorney Joe Poli track the killer. Along for the ride: her giant tuxedo cat, Cookie, Ed and Garrett’s big red mutt, Norm, and Joe’s tiny dog, Cannoli. Woodworking, embroidery, old poisons, and vintage weapons all figure in the case, which comes together in a wild scene at the Historical Society on Fourth-Grade Field Trip Day.

My Review:

This novel is full of Hollywood style big shots, big shot wannabes, and a very messy murder of a man trying to make a comeback on a movie that was doomed before it even started. Cut to our heroine who is raising a son with Type I Diabetes and has an insulin pump. She’s been raising her son alone for two years now. His father died in a motor vehicle accident as he’d headed to report on a situation. Cue back to the story. Our heroine is heroic and very good at what she does concerning historic pieces and history as she received a doctorate in that specific area. Cue back to the story, an actor falls to his doom from an altar that was on a raised dais. Now, the story goes into who might have wanted to off the actor. The whodunit will be for the next reader.