Brenda H. (booksinvt) - , reviewed on 3/17/2018 + 458 more book reviews

Murder at the Mushroom Festival is the fourth installment in the A Kelly Jackson Mystery series set in Mendocino County, CA and featuring Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager, Kelly Jackson. Mushroom hunters are descending upon the area for the Week of the Mushroom Festival and Kelly is letting down on her luck Elise Jenkins hold a cooking class at the B&B.

Always looking to learn more about her new hometown Kelly immerses herself in the activities planned around the area for the mushroom hunters and quickly discovers that the foragers are very secretive about where they find their treasures. When Ned Blaine, reporter for the Redwood Cove Messenger, is rumored to be writing a book giving up all the best locations and is also publishing articles on the Internet, it's really no surprise when he's found murdered in the midst of a mushroom patch.

Kelly also begins to learn more about the black market for Redwood lumber, specifically the sinker logs. Harvesting Redwood trees is now illegal without a permit and someone is sneaking around cutting down trees and retrieving the sinker logs from the river.

Daniel Stevens, manager of a neighboring property, becomes a person of interest in the murder. The lumber thieves have destroyed his tribe's sacred land and Ned's body was found on the site too. Determined to help her friend, Kelly calls on the Silver Sentinels to hunt down a killer.

Another great plot, the return of many well developed main characters and pets, this series gets better with each new addition. With the hint of romance in the air, readers will be looking forward to the next adventures of Kelly and her band of Senior Citizens.

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