Beth Kennedy Series Analysis

The Beth Kennedy series are a series of cozy mystery novels by the American author Laura Alden best known for her versatile and unique cozies. The debut novel in the Beth Kennedy series was the 2010 published Murder at the PTA that both critics and fans agreed was one of her most spectacular of works. The novel would go on to spawn four more titles in the series as the author published a novel each year until 2014. Just like in her Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series, Alden writes some insanely mysterious and suspenseful storylines that include powerful, likable, and highly memorable characters. The lead character in the series is Beth Kennedy the titular character, who is a single mother who runs a children’s bookstore in the small town of Rynwood,
We all have a senior such as Flossie that we adore to bits, another such as Auntie May who needs our care and a best friend like Marina that we love to hate. We all shop at the local bookstore with a lovely proprietor offering recommendations and we all have the troublemakers like Claudia. However, even with their everydayness, the novels are very intriguing with their small town problems such as PTA squabbles and unrequited love interspersed with murder mysteries. Thankfully, Beth has the skill and patience to chase down and investigate clues to help solve some of the most intricate of murder mysteries. Besides the lead character, the characters in the series while seemingly mundane have realistic troubles that include dealing with exes, raising children, and financial troubles. The author creates a mild level of suspense in the series of novels by making some of the murder mysteries threaten Beth’s business or endanger some of her most beloved of friends or family. In fast-paced whodunit novels, Alden keeps the suspense very well as she throws red herrings and keeps the real suspect under wraps until the very end, when she makes the big
Beth Kennedy is a bookstore owner, and single mother of two children who is happy with her life in the small town of Rynwood, Wisconsin. Her life gets a little more interesting when she accepts the challenge from her best friend Marina to run for PTA secretary. She ends up winning only to find that the post is a hotbed of conflict and dissent. It gets even more interesting when she gets a call from Marina with the gloomy message that the school principal Agnes Mephisto had been the victim of a brutal murder. The principal had rubbed too many people in the local PTA the wrong way and hence the list of suspects with some real motivation was likely to be long. Thanks to WisconSins, rumors and theories of just who may be responsible are running rife. Too involved in the PTA to stand aside, Beth digs into the case and starts investigating the dead principal’s life without much regard for the