[Kate & Kylie 03] • The Worst Reunion Ever

Kylie Carson has planned every detail of the reunion of the River Valley High School Class of 1957, and dragged her best friend, Kate Marley, into it. She just hasn’t taken into account that some of those classmates – who are now way up in their seventies – don’t think much of staying up late, and some have been bearing grudges for sixty years. Some never did like each other very much.

Things start out nicely with a “fifties” luncheon at the River Valley Cafe but go from bad to worse. The Elvis impersonator can’t even bring the group together. Then one of the classmates winds up strangled, and Police Chief Daniel O’Reilly has to deal with multiple suspects while he and Kate both begin looking into sixty-year-old secrets. Matters between them are complicated when Kate’s first high school crush, Jake Garrett, moves back to town, and Daniel discovers he has competition.

P.S. Kate saves a funny-looking stray kitten and thinks briefly that she’s taking it to the shelter.

This book, the third in the Kate Kylie series, has a bonus at the end: the first chapter of the fourth Kate Kylie mystery: “Who Murdered the Mayor.”