Twice the Crime This Time

Trailer Park Tales, Book 2

By: Maggie Pill

Narrated by: Linda Dockery

Maggie Pill’s characters seem like people we know: In The Sleuth Sisters Series, it’s siblings we love but can’t always relate to. In the Trailer Park Tales Series, we meet the residents of an RV park in Florida: Fussy husbands, smart-aleck wives, grumpy neighbors, conspiracy lovers, and more. The residents of B-Bird Over-55 RV Park are mostly snow-birds, so for months each year they face the joys and irritations of living in tight spaces with people from all over the place. Usually they cope with politeness and good humor, but at times it’s difficult. In the first story, Once Upon a Trailer Park, a murder on the property put residents on alert and one woman in deadly danger.

In this second story of the series, our heroes are presented with two crime threads, one hot and one cold. The cold case is half a century old, which is okay, since many residents remember those days like they were yesterday. In 1967, on a warm night in Nashville, Tennessee, someone committed two brutal murders. It’s reported that person now lives in the park, hiding under a new identity. When local police ask Ron and Julie Rogers to try to find out who it is, they enlist the help of their friends, intending to ask each man in the park where he was on the date the crime occurred.

The other crime is ongoing and more annoyance than concern. Rumor says someone is cruising the streets in the evenings and peeping in windows, but rumor is often wrong. Ignoring the peeper sightings, the sleuths concentrate on finding the 80-year-old killer. Neck-deep in suspects, they have no idea how dangerous things are going to get for one of them.

©2020 Peggy Herring (P)2022 Peggy Herring

bad production of a decent book

i rarely give negative reviews, especially of a book by a good writer, but don't spend a credit on this. Read the book instead. (Maggie Pill / Sleuth Sisters really is worth reading.)

This is a really bad, unprofessional.production. While the narrator can read clearly, she speed reads and is not an actress. All the characters sound exactly alike and no one sounds like the area of the country they're from. Everyone has a twangy accent and you can't even tell if a male or female character is supposed to be speaking. There are also odd pauses here and there, and (I'm not kidding) the sounds of birds singing in several chapters. Did they record this out on someone's deck?? It's bizarre!

I probably wouldn't mind so much if this were a $4.99 audiobook, but it cost more than a credit. Save your money.