Steve Demaree

A Body on the Porch Steve Demaree

While a retired detective on vacation is standing in front of a popular breakfast place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he encounters a weasel of a man who is only there because one of his neighbors is paying for his vacation. The detective makes a mistake of telling the man what he used to do for a living, and the man asks the detective if he goes home and finds a body will the detective come and solve the murder at no cost to him. The detective tells him he will do it only if the body is found on the front porch. When the freeloader goes home and finds a body on his front porch, he calls the detective, who has just returned home from his vacation himself. The entry in the Dekker Cozy Mystery series fits in with the others in the series, which means it is a whodunit with lots of humor and twists and turns.