Publication Date: August 27, 2025
When elementary art teacher Maggie MacGill finds the richest, most despised woman in town dead, then inherits her estate, life in the sweet mountain town of Wrenhaven, Tennessee, takes a greased ride downhill.
No one knows why Mrs. Grayson left her fortune to Maggie, but once her death begins to look like murder, and a series of unexplained pranks directed at the MacGill family turn nasty, Maggie must untangle a web of secrets and discover who has it in for her before it’s too late. Even if it means accepting help from the victim’s grandson, a man she’s loathed since high school but whose devastating grin and quick wit can still make her heart race.
Elementary art teacher Maggie MacGill inherits the estate of the most hated woman in Wrenhaven, Tennessee. When the woman’s death begins to look more like murder than natural causes, Maggie goes on the hunt for the killer in A Murder and Maggie MacGill by Rebecca Lee Smith.
Maggie is stubborn, too stubborn, but I still like her. Maggie wants to take care of her family and shield them from problems, but she can’t do that indefinitely. Her family deserves to know the truth. Her heart is in the right place, and she wants to be helpful.
I’m glad Eli is there to help her solve the case. He’s very even-keeled and doesn’t leap first and then look, which Maggie has a tendency to do.
I enjoyed the author’s writing style. The story was easy to follow, it kept me entertained, and I liked the characters involved in the book. Even the ones the audience wasn’t supposed to like, because they were so well written.
The author did a good job of tying up the loose ends of the story so the audience isn’t left wondering, and there wasn’t a cliffhanger either.
Murder and romance culminate in a sweet, happy ending in A Murder and Maggie MacGill.
Rebecca lives with her husband and a dog named Wilbur in the beautiful, misty mountains of East Tennessee, where the people are charming, soulful, and just a little bit crazy. She’s been everything from a tax collector to a stay-at-home-mom to a professional actor and director. She loves to travel the world but her Southern roots and the affectionate appreciation she has for the rural towns she lives near inspire the settings and characters she writes about.
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