This time around, Willa and her cheese shop employees are spending the weekend in the neighboring town of Lockwood, which is holding its annual Dairy Days festival. Curds & Whey has a booth there, and both Archie and Mrs. Schultz have been roped into helping with the Miss Dairy beauty pageant. The pageant director, Nadine, has has been running the show for years, ends up dead, and Willa and her friends don’t think the local cops are doing a good job with the investigation.

The mystery was good. We have several potential suspects with a variety of motives. There were a couple if twists I didn’t see coming and I didn’t guess who the killer turned out to be.

As always, I enjoy the friendship and banter between Willa, Archie, Baz, and Mrs. Schultz. It was also nice to see Willa working with Detective Heath again. He’s not officially on this case, it’s not his town, but that doesn’t mean he’s not interested in making sure the murderer is found.

And of course, it left me craving cheese. Although I’m a little like Baz and not very adventurous in my choices.