Torie O'Shea is hosting a large family reunion of her fathers relatives when she discovers her great grandfather was murdered instead of dying in a hunting accident as she has always been told. Torie decides to find the murderer in this unsolved case while dealing with her family and the fact that she is unexpectedly pregnant for the third time. It was a bit difficult to keep track of all of the characters but I found this to be a good cozy mystery. ( )

I love the idea of combining mysteries (which I love to read) with genealogy (one of my favorite hobbies), so I checked this book out of the library with high hopes. This book was even set during a week-long family reunion!

While I enjoyed some aspects of this story, like some of the family interactions, other parts weren't as enjoyable as I remember the other two Torie O'Shea books I've read were. This time around, I found Torie O'Shea, the protagonist and amateur genealogist/sleuth, to be a bit contentious. While the thought of her digging around to uncover a family secret was interesting, she came across as as a bit of an inquisitor, to me.

Still, I'll probably look for more Rhett MacPherson books in the future. ( )

Torie (short for Victory) O'Shea and her madcap family are front and center again. This years family reunion on her father's side is scheduled for Torie's house and hometown.

As usual, Torie gets deeply involved in genealogy, this time her own father's family. She thought she knew everything but someone sends her some newspaper clippings about her great-grandfather. She had been told he died of a hunting accident, but these articles make it clear that he died on his own front porch - was it murder? And if so, who killed him?

Torie is off and running to see if she can solve the mystery, all the while trying to entertain 40-50 family members, deal with her mother and mother's beau, the Sheriff, and some other interesting twists that I would never spoil!

I'm looking forward to the next in this series, it just keeps getting better. ( )

If you like mysteries and genealogy, you'll like this book.

An OK mystery but I wouldn't read any of the other books in the series. I found the heroine to be somewhat obnoxious and the rest of the book just felt like a soft sadness. Not what I was looking for in a 'cozy' mystery. The story had very little humor. The mystery plot wasn't bad but when the evildoer was revealed, I found I didn't really care much. The character who I liked the most, the sheriff, is someone the 'heroine' detests for no very clear reason -- it's not romantic; he is marrying the heroine's mother. ( )