Irregardless of Murder: A Miss Prentice Cozy Mystery

Ellen Edwards Kennedy. St Kitts Press, $14 (275pp) ISBN 978-0-9661879-7-7

Before she tripped over the body of a former student in the public library, middle-aged high school English teacher Amelia Prentice's big annoyances concerned her students' grammar mistakes. But when she becomes a murder suspect, her smalltown Adirondack lifestyle is upended and she must clear her name in Ellen Edwards Kennedy's Irregardless of Murder: A Miss Prentice Cozy Mystery.

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