Another good one. ( )

#2 in Mantra for Murder Mysteries

Sensuality: Tame
Mystery sub-genre: Cozy
Main Character: A.J. Alexander, recently inherited a Yoga Studio, Sacred Balance
Setting: Stillbrook, a small Northwest New Jersey town

The Mantra for Murder mystery series has a Yoga studio as a main location, but the story is not overly yoga centered so anyone will enjoy this series.

A.J. has two celebrity clients at her yoga studio, Sacred Balance, that test her commitment to a peaceful and serene life. They appear to have personal grudges against each other and it carries into the yoga studio. In the midst of a particularly hectic day, diva actress Nicole insists that A.J. retrieve her left-behind cellular phone and hand deliver it to her house. A.J. reluctantly complies and finds Nicole dead in her home. A.J. insists she is not getting involved - she is absolutely under no circumstances investigating Nicole’s murder.

Then her ex-husband shows up on her doorstep limping and a bump on his head that he won’t explain and pleads for sanctuary and her mother cancels her Egyptian vacation and rushes home to aid A.J. in ferreting out the murderer. She gets dragged into investigating in spite of her good intentions. A.J. gets threats and even her very new relationship with the sheriff is at stake this time. But there is no stopping after the local newspaper calls her “the local Miss Marple” because the murderer has read that article too.

There are only a few people who could have had the time or motive to kill the diva actress so....

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A J Alexander is trying to settle down into an uncomfortable management partnership at her yoga studio and adjust to her new slower life in New Jersey. She is also coming to grips with her divorce and a new relationship with a local cop. She is actually doing pretty well until she comes across the murdered body of one of her students, a TV celebrity. Now she finds herself right in the middle of a murder investigation. And just to keep things interesting, her ex-husband and former British TV star mother show up to help with the investigation.

This is the second in the Mantra for Murder Mystery series and it is just as good as the first. The mystery is solid but it is the characters and the setting that make it so good. I hope I don't have to wait too long for the next in the series. ( )