No Rest for the Wicked: A Jane Serrano Mystery

In Main's winning second Jane Serrano mystery (after 2005's Murder of the Month), Sheriff Arnie Kraft of Juniper, Ore., focuses on Jane's friend, bridal boutique owner Alix Boudreau, after a dead man found in a rental car is identified as Alix's first and worst ex-husband, Hunter Blackburn, a con man who's made a career of bilking the elderly. Lovable Bible-quoting Minnie Salter, a member of Murder of the Month, Jane's reading group at Thornton's Books, insists on following her own hunches, while omnipresent Velda Kubek takes every opportunity away from caring for her aging aunt to involve herself in Minnie's investigations. Since many of the older people who meet at Thornton's were victims of Blackburn's scams, they, too, fall under suspicion. Jane adds some intelligent sleuthing to Arnie's inept efforts to unmask the murderer in this fun, spotlessly clean cozy. (July)