Baskets & Caskets: A Pine Groves Mystery

Bones & Drones Series, Book 3

By: K.A. Goodsell

Narrated by: Carrie Coello

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

Never put all your skulls in one basket...

Paislee Grimes thought she had it all figured out - solve a huge historical mystery, secure the mayor’s recommendation, and ride the success of her forensics project straight to the college of her dreams.

If only cracking the case on all these murders and grave robberies wouldn’t take up so much of her time!

As the leaves begin to fall in small-town Connecticut and application deadlines creep closer, Paislee must put her project aside to focus on solving the crimes of a killer who’s dead set on carving a date into Paislee’s own tombstone: Halloween night.

Everyone is a suspect, and nothing seems set in stone. For anyone else, the burden might be too much to carry, but Paislee has no choice.

If she can’t find the killer soon, the future she’s spent so long weaving will be destroyed, and Paislee will be just another skeleton.

©2019 Katie Goodsell (P)2020 Katie Goodsell

An awesome finale to an excellent series!

Although the previous episodes had murders and poison that imitated death, this is the "all will be revealed" episode.
That's not to say the other episodes could be missed, as this is a story of a real life scenarios, that certain things happen, causing the next sequence of events to occur. So the whole series is the complete picture revealed.
So who is the murderer? You'll have to read the author's rendition to find out! Super Cool!

Entertaining

I received this book for free. I am voluntarily posting this review and any opinions expressed herein are my own.

This is the third book in the Bones and Drones series. It is not a standalone book and it does have a bit of a cliffhanger ending. [I am assuming that the series is going to continue?] You have to read/listen to the first two book in the series to have any understanding as to the events occurring in this book. It is best if you actually read all of the books in a row as each one picks up soon or immediately after the last one ended. While the author provides a bit of a recap, it is really not enough to fully understand the previous events from the other books.

This book mostly is a wrap/solving of the mystery of the from the first two books. Paislee is coming more into her own and a bit of a romance is brewing. Overall, it was an enjoyable wrap up.

The narrator, Carrie Coello, is the same for all three books in the series and did a fine job.

A Great Listen

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request, and have voluntarily left this review. Paislee's life is just getting crazier and more complicated. Now she's under police protection, what else could go wrong. Someone is robbing her beloved grave yards, and burying new bodies. She knows she's so close to solving everything, but the answer is just out of her grasp. Chaos and humor is the result in this delightful mystery that is filled with unique and interesting characters. Well worth the listen.

Baskets & Caskets

Everything is coming together, but can Paislee figure it all out before it’s too late? With a big target on her, Paislee diligently follows all the leads and comes to the shocking resolution.

A well written mystery with enough twists to keep you guessing until the end. I look forward to seeing more stories from K.A. Goodsell and narrations by Carrie Coello.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.

Pretty Good

Baskets and Caskets is a pretty good mystery with well developed characters and an entertaining plot. I received this book for free in exchange for an unbiased review.