It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - For Murder!

TITLE: Fatal Festival Days (A Dog Days Mystery #3)
AUTHOR: Jamie M. Blair
PUBLISHER: Midnight Ink
PUBLISHING DATE: November 8, 2018 

FROM GOODREADS: Planning activities for the Winter Festival in Metamora, Indiana, is hard work for Cameron Cripps-Hayman. Not only is she organizing dog sledding, ice sculpting, and downhill skiing events, but she's also dealing with angry protesters and a missing mascot. The last thing she needs is another mystery to solve. And yet, that's what she gets.

After a greedy landowner is found dead on top of a ski hill, Cameron scrambles to keep the reindeer games running. Then the festival's former-Olympian host is also found dead. Cameron gets the Metamora Action Agency together to investigate, but proving the victims were both murdered--and catching the killer--will take a miracle on ice.

MY THOUGHTS:  December was the perfect time to pick up the latest installment of the Dog Days Mysteries because this time, the murders take place during the Winter Festival.  That's right, murders is plural because this time not just one, but two people wind up dead and unfortunately, Cam takes it upon herself to figure out what is going on.  And on top of that, the town mascot, Metamora Mike (a duck) is missing.  Is he the latest victim?

I had so much fun visiting Metamora and all of the familiar characters as well.  Anyone who likes zany individuals would surely appreciate some of the attitudes of Cam's Action Agency which range from geeky teenagers to an elderly crumudgeon to a knitter with a tendency to steal yarn.  In addition to that, Cam's house is still full of dogs and she is STILL trying to find the perfect names for the two dog brothers she adopted in the last book.  

Finally the mystery was fun and kept me guessing up until the end.  It was fun to see the town pull together to save their Festival Days and it once again made me crave some small town life.

RATING: 4 PAWS