LAST CALL

By Allyson K. Abbott

All the fans following this particular series will love to walk through the doors of Mack’s Bar again and join up with those “barstool detectives” to solve yet another whodunit.

Her name is Mackenzie Dalton but everyone knows her as Mack. She owns her bar, she’s friends with everyone, and her “regulars” do far more than just sit around and gossip; they paw through cold cases and find answers. But this time, things are different. Mack is going through some inner turmoil from the last crime that involved her. She’s shaken, but Duncan Albright is hard to resist.

Duncan works for the Milwaukee police department and he needs help. A shooting has occurred and Duncan knows that Mack’s talents for observation along with her knack for “sensing” clues will aid him far better than anyone else could. So he asks for her help to solve the puzzle of why a businessman was shot and killed. Of course, there are a slew of prime suspects considering the man was not exactly a stand-up guy.

The problems increase when it’s known that one of their own friends, Mal, was investigating the guy before he was shot, and now Mal has disappeared. So not only do they need to bring in a perpetrator, they need to find their friend and get some answers. Mack’s already dealing with trust issues and now she wonders if another person who she believed in could possibly have tricked her all this time. Could Mal be a killer on the loose? You’ll have to read to find out.

Mack’s Bar has always been a place of friendship and cool crime solving, and this latest installment is no different. And don’t forget those great drink recipes that come along with the great mystery. There’s no better day than sitting down with that glass of “Twisted Sister” and following Mack and the gang. Just be careful…those drinks can sneak up on you!