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Book Review of The Cemetery Yew (Martha's Vineyard, Bk 3)

The Cemetery Yew (Martha's Vineyard, Bk 3)
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West Tisbury's police chief knew what she was doing when she officially made ninety-two-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull her deputy. Though Victoris is a little slow on her feet, her eyes-and mind-are still sharp, which is why she is the first to notice something amiss in the local cemetery. A request to disinter a coffin has led to an empty grave, the hearse driver's disappearance, and a string of suspicious deaths and obvious murders. When the missing coffin is finally located, dug up, and opened, it does not contain the expected body. The the casket itself disappears, and only the unflappable Victoria has the presence of mind to unearth clues mired in the past and present...