Pot Luck

Highly entertaining, this delicious, thriller, book III of the Stephanie Beroe Chronicles sheds light on how differences between neighbors and friends, blended with a dose of alienation, duress, and let's not forget pot, can make you fast friends or make you enemies. The world in lockdown, schools closed, Stephanie creates a micro-school for her niece in a small hippie town outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Outdoor playdates and housing the group are wonderful new exercises in family, community, sharing food, and friendship; something she desperately seeks during a time of isolation. But what seems like a great idea, becomes a multi-layered recipe for murder that makes her profession in the cannabis industry indelibly pedestrian.

It becomes clear this group of PTA women is dynamic, but maybe not in a good way as a CEO of a ranching family with a vendetta for plant-based, diet enthusiasts, a domineering, Christian missionary from California whose husband is a closet, flat-earth math teacher, a morose, vegetarian, doctor's wife with a dangerous personal secret, and a militant, vegan momtrepreneur, go into survival mode. The pot boils over when women start turning up stoned and dead, making Stephanie the lead suspect. Inveigled by an irretrievable desire to fit into a world of "normal society," a familiar, unyielding tolerance, may be Stephanie's biggest enemy. This Agatha Christie meets Bad Moms will make you think twice about educating your kids.