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Footprints in the Butter: An Ingrid Beaumont Mystery Co-Starring Hitchcock the Dog

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Ingrid Beaumont is a musician who composes scores for movies. While at her high school reunion, one of her former friends is found dead. The dead man leaves (or Ingrid thinks he leaves) her clues to his killer in the form of riddles and paintings that he created. Ingrid, who likes a challenge, is quickly off and running--trying to find out who killed her friend.

I liked many things about this book. Ingrid is an out-going, open-hearted, and likeable heroine. Her dog Hitchcock adds a lot of comic notes. The love scenes between Ingrid and Ben, the veterinarian, are steamy.

The plot is a bit hard to follow at times and more time is spent on flashbacks of the former high schoolers than on present-day goings-on. Even so, it's a fast-paced read with friendly characters.

Though slightly over-praised in the promotional blurbs on the front and back of the book ("A writer without peer" seems a bit much, for example), "Footprints in the Butter" is nevertheless a fairly painless read and a perfectly good distraction from life's stresses. Chances are, you've seen this type of thing many times before- the quirky heroine who laces lots of observational humor into her first-person musings about the case-but that doesn't take away from the fact that this getting-to-be-threadbare formula is once again done competently here.