Funny small-town mystery with an interesting lead character. ( )

This is the second in the Tory Bauer mystery series. Tory is a middle
aged, overweight waitress at the Delphi Cafe in Delphi, South Dakota, a
very plain spoken woman who seems to have developed the bad habit of
finding dead bodies. This time, she finds the body of a young carny
worker stuffed into the rafters of the Fun House at the carnival that's
come to town for Delphi Daze. Though the coroner declares the death to
be from natural causes, Tory just can't believe that an otherwise
healthy young blonde girl would climb up into those rafters and just
die. The carnival is full of suspicious characters and Tory is
determined to figure out which one of them "dunit." Full of returning
characters, this was an enjoyable book, but it wasn't quite as
satisfying as the first one was. I do like the way Tory thinks, though,
and will read more in this series. ( )

Another of Taylors gritty down to earth mysteries, a joy to read, and the characters seem like the people in your own town. A great read, and wish she'd write more. ( )