A Pair for the Queen by Barbara ComfortAdult Mysteries-Main Level - COMFORT
Feisty seventy-seven year old Tish McWhinny tries to live a quiet life with her niece Sophie in the town of Lofton, Vermont in B. Comfort’s A Pair for the Queen. Tish’s serene existence is rattled when her friend Hilary Oats asks Tish for a personal favor. Hilary’s blunderer nephew Bruce is hoping to sell dog themed art at an upcoming dog show and hopes that Tish will create an original painting and try to pass it off as an older, more prestigious piece of work. Tish is hesitant to create a forgery but instead restores an older painting from a junk shop. The painting is a hit but the ruse is in danger of unraveling when the signature “Landseer” appears after Bruce cleans the painting’s corner at the show. Events take a turn for the worse when Bruce is soon found murdered and the painting is stolen. The book does offer up one too many red herrings such as Bruce’s former wife and her new husband, Bruce’s daughter, a city couple looking to manage the general store, and Sophie’s new boyfriend just to name a few. The relationship between the central characters, however, elevates the plot and makes the book a mystery well worth uncovering.
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