Reviewed by Lynette Fowlston for Readers' Favorite

Dead In Bed, a cozy mystery by Edna Curry, is book two in her Lacey Summers-PI Mystery Books. When local businessman, Sam Carter, hires Lacey to check out the death of his wife Clara, it proves to be a sticky situation. As Lacey struggles to make a go of her business, she keeps getting resistance from the local sheriff who is like a second father to her. When Lacey takes on the job of proving that Sam is innocent, little does she know that she is also putting her own life in jeopardy. When Lacey found out Clara had hired a PI from another town, she started to look into it. Was she trying to find something on Sam? When the PI is found dead in his car that went over a cliff, results show it was no accident. Are the deaths of Clara and this PI connected? Does it have something to do with Carter Manufacturing owned by Clara and Sam? Can Lacey solve this mystery before Sam gets thrown in jail for murder and before someone makes good on the threats she has been receiving?

As a cozy mystery reader, this is the first of Ms. Curry's books I have read. I had fun trying to figure out just who killed Clara, and as usual, I had the wrong person. I really connected with Lacey. She is the type of carefree, no-matter-what kind of girl, always in jeans and a sweatshirt; a dress is just not in her picture. I like that she did not let the sheriff intimidate her, and she had a way of getting an answer from people when they least expected it...although at times, she let it slip what she was working on. She reminded me of a female Colombo. The book is cleanly written, with just a quick hint at a sexual situation but great for an afternoon cozy read.