The Leslie Meier Lucy Stone mystery series is one of my all time favorite. Each title is holiday related, and this book obviously takes place around Father's Day.
Lucy Stone is a married mother of 4 in Tinker's Cove, Maine where she writes for the local newspaper. In this installment, Lucy's paper wins an award and she and her boss, Ted, win an all-expense paid trip to a week long convention in Boston. So Lucy packs off to go, leaving her kids and husband home to fend for themselves.
While at the conference, a man is murdered. The victim is the patriarch of a wealthy family that runs a newspaper syndicate. Lucy knows some of the family members because they vacation in Tinker's Cove, and her natural curiosity leads her to start researching the family and trying to solve the case.
The main reason I love Lucy Stone books is the mixture of the everyday middle class family interactions and the small town atmosphere with the mysteries on the side. This book was not quite as fun because she wasn't home during the majority of the story. But I did enjoy the descriptions of Lucy shopping at Filene's basement and visiting the Isabelle Stewart Gardiner museum while in Boston. I figured out the killer pretty easily, but I didn't mind, it was still a fun read.
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