Reunions Can Be Murder: Charlie Parker Mysteries, Book 7 (Charlie Parker New Mexico Mystery)

Recently married, Charlie (Memories Can Be Murder) sees her firefighting husband off to a New Mexico site, then checks the private investigations office where she and her brother work as partners. An unpleasant woman practically forces an unusual case on her: to find her elderly and senile prospecting father-before the family's impending reunion. With very little searching, Charlie finds bizarre characters, a yellowing treasure map, a deserted mine, and a corpse (but is it of the right person?). Fans of Southwestern mysteries will find that Shelton's engaging story, likable heroine, and comfortable prose make this a good choice. Octogenarian Willie McBride has gone missing and now his daughter is pestering CPA Charlie Parker to find him in time for the big family reunion. Willie's passion to find gold got the better of him when he turns up dead in White Oaks, the site of an historic gold rush...and some ugly business. Charlie is sure that Willie's fate is linked to the illegal drug doings, and she is prepared for anything...except murder When Willie McBride, a peculiar old man who is obsessed with finding gold, goes missing, Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker, on the behest of Willie's intolerable daughter, must find him before the big family reunion, which is no easy task. Reprint.