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Description edit
It's September - National Honey Month - in Moraine, Wisconsin. After her mentor in the honey business is found suspiciously stung to death in his apiary, beekeeper Story Fischer must sort through a swarm of suspects, including her ex-husband. "You won't want to put it down." ~ Julie Hyzy,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Story Fischer: runs Wild Clover, the local market, recently divorced, amateur beekeeper
- Manny Chapman: local beekeeper, owner of Queen Bee Honey
- Carrie Ann Retzlaff: Story's cousin, helps at the store occasionally
- Brent Craig: college student, works at the store, Trent's twin
- Trent Craig: college student, works at the store, Brent's twin
- Grace Chapman: Manny's wife
- Emily Nolan: local librarian
- Holly: Story's younger sister, married money
- Clay Lane: Story's ex-husband, owns the local jewelry store
- Faye Tilley: Clay's girlfriend
- Helen Fischer: Story's mom, favors Holly, negative outlook
- Grams: Story's sweet-apple-pie grandmother
- Hunter Wallace: on the Critical Incident Team for the Waukesha County sheriff's office, now trains police dogs, Storey's first high school flame
- Johnny Jay: Moraine police chief, once the biggest bully in school
- Jackson Davis: county medical examiner
- Carl: Grace Chapman's brother
- Betty: Grace Chapman's pregnant sister-in-law
- Stanley Peck: 60+ widowed local farmer
- Ray Goodwin: Manny's local delivery man, found Manny
- Kenny Langley: owner of Kenny's Bees, Manny's competitor
- Lori Spandle: local real estate agent
- P.P. Patti Dwyer: Story's neighbor and town gossip, P.P. stands for Pity Party
- Stu: Add a description of this character.
- Deedee
- Gerald Smith
- Ben
- Milly Hopticourt
- Bruce
Setting & Locations edit
- Moraine, Wisconsin: small town of about 800 in SE Wisconsin
- Waukesha
- Oconomowoc River
- Milwaukee
- Main Street
First Sentence edit
If I hadn't been drinking champagne at noon on Friday, I would have been over at the honey house with Manny Chapman, my beekeeping mentor and owner of Queen Bee Honey, and possibly, just possibly, I might have saved him from what must have been a very painful death.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 4 in A Queen Bee Mystery. (standard series)
Followed by Mind Your Own Beeswax.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Hannah Reed (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 2010
ISBN: 9780425236420
Page Count: 312
Publisher: Penguin
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 2010
ISBN: 9780425236420
Page Count: 312
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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