A review by cdubiel
Eyelet Witness by Julie Anne Lindsey

5.0

So, I know I keep saying this, but I LOVE this series! It just keeps getting better. I love that Julie is able to play with cozy mystery stereotypes and do things that are a little bit different while also being enjoyable. This book really sets up the spinoff series with Thelma and Louisa. There's also a different sort of mystery here - we have a murder, of course. Louisa Eggers, Bonnie Balfour's new friend and chicken farmer, used to date a man named Ben while living on her off-the-grid cottagecore farm. Ben turns up dead, but then Thelma, Louisa's prize chicken, goes missing too. We have the murder, but we also have a missing chicken. Did the same person do both crimes, or do we have separate criminals on the loose? In this one, I guessed what was going on, but the intrigue and motive behind it all is super-fascinating. Louisa is becoming a sleuth in her own right, and I'm excited to see where the next Bonnie book goes as well as Louisa's own series.