Swinging Sixties Mystery Series: Book 5
Publication Date: March 10, 2026
It’s August 1965, and Dot Morgan is finally getting married to the dashing reporter Ben Dalton. Her wedding day, August 14th, promises to be perfect—if only it didn’t follow Friday the 13th. What could go wrong? Planning a wedding with the members of the Camden Chapel, Dot thinks she’s overwhelmed, but then it gets worse when a body is found on the church lawn. Dot decides to focus on her wedding to Ben, but when police reveal the victim didn’t jump from the belfry he was pushed—she can no longer look away. Her suspects aren’t hardened criminals; they’re the same church members who bring casseroles and ask about her family. With her wedding day fast approaching, Dot must unmask a killer hiding in plain sight, or the secrets of Camden Chapel will remain buried in the summer heat.
Crying in the Chapel is the fifth book in The Swinging Sixties Mystery series by Teresa Trent. I was drawn to this book by the colorful cover art, which is very appropriate to that decade.
I felt like I was reliving my youth with all the references to the fashions, actors, and roles they played, music, and television shows I grew up with. Dot is an amateur sleuth with a good track record of solving cases, but in the lead-up to her wedding, she keeps getting distracted. When two murders happen to church members right before her wedding, and her cousin goes missing on Dot’s wedding day, what’s she going to do?
The author weaves in quite a few unexpected twists and turns, with confessions, a new baby, and a wedding to get through. This cozy mystery has closure with the solving of whodunnit, and Dit is the one to thank.
Crying in the Chapel is filled with reminisces of the sixties and a few murders and potentially other crimes. Join Dot as she breaks the mold of being just a homemaker after she’s married.
Teresa Trent is the author of four different mystery series. The Swinging Sixties Series which features Dot in a small town in Texas starting in 1962. The Henry Park Series, which features Gabby, an artist in Colorado who is also psychic and The Piney Woods Series featuring Nora, a woman who came to a small town in Texas to find out she is related to many of the people there. Her first series, The Pecan Bayou Series, she started writing way back in 2011. That series has nine books and features Betsy, a woman who writes helpful hints and solves mysteries. Teresa is the voice of the Books to the Ceiling Podcast where she narrates scenes from new mysteries coming on to the market. Books to the Ceiling is featured wherever you listen to podcasts. Teresa lives in Texas with her husband and son.
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