Or do they? With her record of sleeplessness, everyone from her fiancé, Rex, to her Girl Scout troop are questioning her sanity. And when strange incidents of arson start popping up all over Who’s There, Iowa, and a mysterious woman vanishes, Merry begins to believe her neighbors are foreign spies.
Throw in meeting her fiancé’s odd twin sistersa nd a scary sleep study, and Merry wonders if she’s in danger of losing her mind ... or her life.
Merry is a former CIA agent who loved her job and was very good at it. But when her identity is exposed, she’s forced into early retirement, given a severance package and told to start over somewhere new. After changing her appearance, she returns to her small hometown in Iowa, where her best friend, Kelly, still lives. Together they run a Girl Scout troop while Merry tries to adjust to a much quieter life.
Merry is getting ready for her wedding but things get complicated when, during a sleepless night, she thinks she sees a murder happen in the house next door. Since she’s exhausted and stressed, nobody is sure whether she really witnessed something or imagined it.
As strange fires, missing people and suspicious neighbors start piling up, Merry starts digging into what’s going on in town. Along the way, she also has to deal with wedding chaos, her fiancé’s eccentric family (who she recently discover exist), and reminders that her old spy instincts are still hard to ignore.
This is the sixth in the Merry Wrath mystery series (there are currently 36) and for the most part I liked it. It can be read as a stand alone but it's fun to read them in order. It's written in first person perspective in Merry's voice so we can to hear her thoughts (and she has a lot!). I liked the writing style ... it was conversational as if Merry was speaking to us. It was a quick fun read and I look forward to continuing on with the series.
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