Kik Lowenstein is a great amateur sleuth who gets into some really dangerous places. Author Joanna Campbell Slan has a winner of a series here.  The first in the series was nominated for the Agatha Award. The "Scrap-n-Craft" series features Kiki who is a master at scrapbooking. Not only are the mysteries well plotted and intriguing, the scrapbooking hints are well appreciated.

The latest installment, read from a NetGalley ARC, is just as exciting as all the previous novels. Kiki is pitted against a murderer who is probably the one who killed her husband in "Paper, Scissors, Death". She gets into the middle of the action by having been present when the murder occurred. Trying to solve the mystery, keep her family safe, survive a visit from her wacky mother, and keep the romance alive with her policeman heartthrob is almost more than she can handle.

Watch for an unusual lamp  --  think armadillo roadkill -- as well as a tangled plan to catch a killer. Kiki endures it all with her sense of humor and integrity intact. I do question, however, the very abrupt ending.  I wanted to know more about how what happened with the scrapbooking store  --  it was left rather as a cliff-hanger.  So is this a literary method sure to fire our appetites for book number six?