Body Over Troubled Waters (Welcome Back to Scumble River Series #4)

by Denise Swanson

Overview

Love is deadly

Stupid Cupid is making School psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd regret returning to work after her maternity leave. It starts with an emergency school lockdown, continues with her godfather's arrest by the state police, and ends with a dead body!

It's every teacher and administrator's worst nightmare—a school shooter lockdown. And even worse for Skye because she's trapped in a tiny room with the district's creepy superintendent, Dr. Wraige while they wait for the all-clear.

When Dr. Wraige turns up dead in his home just a short time later, is it a coincidence, or something more?

Skye joins her police chief husband, Wally, in an investigation that becomes more complicated by the minute. With a dead boss and a mysterious killer on the loose, Skye is caught between a rock and a heart place—but she won't give up until Scumble River is safe once again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492686002
Publisher:	Poisoned Pen Press
Publication date:	07/27/2021
Series:	Welcome Back to Scumble River Series , #4
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	242,634
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Denise Swanson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Scumble River mysteries, the Deveraux’s Dime Store mysteries, and the Chef-to-Go mysteries, as well as the Change of Heart contemporary romances. She has been nominated for RT Magazine’s Career Achievement Award, the Agatha Award, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

Editorial Reviews

2021-05-05
A school psychologist covering three schools finds a trio of crises on her hands.

Recently returned from maternity leave, Skye Denison-Boyd needs all the help she can get serving the entire student body at Scumble River’s elementary school, middle school, and high school. Her intern, Piper Townsend, is a godsend, but she also relies on security officer Scott Ricci to provide extra support. Too bad the district’s superintendent, Dr. Shamus Wraige, decides the district doesn’t need a security officer; instead they need an attendance and residency investigator, who just happens to be Wraige’s son, Tavish. Unfortunately but predictably, Tavish is useless in dealing with Skye’s first crisis: an active shooter at the high school. Once Skye’s handled that volatile situation, the next blow lands closer to home. Her godfather, Charlie Patukas, has been arrested for alleged dirty dealings at his motel, the Up A Lazy River Motor Courts. Skye has to hand off that emergency to her sister-in-law, attorney Loretta Steiner-Denison, when the third horse in her trifecta of woe crosses the finish line. Dr. Wraige is found dead in his home, pierced by the tip of an arrow held by a statue of Cupid. Thanks to the superintendent’s unpleasant personality and unorthodox sexual preferences, suspects abound. But Skye wants to get this one wrapped up quickly because, as any school psychologist knows, you just can’t get any work done with a homicidal maniac running loose.

As misfortunes multiply, each one loses some punch. Next time, maybe fewer but choicer aggravations?

Kirkus Reviews