When her mother calls from Sophie Mae’s hometown of Spring Creek, Colorado, and asks her to come home, Sophie Mae is reluctant knowing how overbearing her mother Anna Belle can be. But when Anna Belle mentions a suicide note from Sophie Mae’s brother Bobby Lee that has just surfaced almost twenty years after Bobby Lee hanged himself, Sophie Mae, against her better judgment, agrees to return home.

With Meghan and Meghan’s eleven-year-old daughter in town, Sophie Mae returns home where she finds herself stepping back in time and looking closely at the last few months of her brother’s life. When she learns his then girlfriend Tabby is teaching cheese making at the dairy she and her husband own, Sophie Mae signs up, figuring she can learn more about Bobby Lee and learn a new skill she can take back to Washington.

When Tabby’s husband Joe, also one of Bobby Lee’s best friends, is murdered, Sophie Mae realizes she may have struck a nerve. She also realizes that perhaps Bobby Lee did not commit suicide for the reasons everyone first thought and that someone has been keeping an awful lot of secrets for eighteen years.

A well-plotted, well-paced mystery, Something Borrowed, Something Bleu provides a look into Sophie Mae’s past, making her an even more complete character than before. Sophie Mae has good instincts and when she realizes the people from Bobby Lee’s past aren’t ringing true, it is only a matter of time until she learns what led to Bobby Lee’s death. Her return home also confirms to Sophie Mae that she has made the right decisions in her life, the new, untraditional family she has forged with Meghan and Erin and that she is doing the right thing making Barr a permanent and very important part of her life.

--Jennifer Monahan Winberry