I love a mystery that mucks about. The Chickenlandia mystery has a cast of home grown characters perfect for a weekend read. What appealed to me was the fact that one of our detectives is blind without her glasses which she sheds to fight anyone who gets on her bad side. She is divorced and spitting mad at her ex husband who has taken a job as a driver extraordinaire for the local Chicken King. The mystery surrounds a local chili queen who disappears just before the annual festival and contest. There are missing poultry, land grabs and ineffective police. The reading while easy on the vocabulary was surprisingly intricate and honestly ,the ending was not what I expected. Enjoy this Southern tale of town rivalry and revelation. Happy reading

These forever young gladiators in the investigating arena Veenie and RJ are at it again, and as usual, they bring with them a belly full of laughs as they investigate the mysterious circumstances of the missing barnyard king and the queen of the chicken coop and of course a woman. Their crime-solving techniques are pretty unorthodox and funny, leaving you with a barrel of laughs, as they solve the mystery in their bumbling old-style fashion.

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Chickenlandia Mystery by Daisy Pettles is the 3rd book in the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency series, and another great addition. This book is hilarious, I laughed out loud many times. Ruby Jane and Veenie are senior women who work as private eyes, under a lazy man, who is licensed. In this fun adventure, Ruby Jane and Veenie are on the look out for prized chickens that went missing from Ma and Peepaw Horton's farm. If you feel like laughing, give this book/series a try, you won't be disappointed. Can't wait to read the next book in the series.

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Chickenlandia Mystery by Daisy Pettles is the third book in the cozy Shady Hoosier Detective Agency series. Each book of this cozy series contains it’s own mystery that is solved so they can be understood as a standalone. However, there is character building carried over from book to book for those following from the beginning.

Our two main characters of the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency mystery series are a couple of “elderly” ladies, Ruby Jane Waskom and Veenie Goens. Best friends all their lives the pair lean on each other with neither being rich and still needing to work to support themselves they have taken on working at the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, what better job to put to use their nosy natures.

Ruby Jane and Veenie as usual are willing to take on any case that may come their way when things get slow at the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. This time around the ladies find themselves working on a chicken-napping case when Dewey, a prize rooster, and Ginger, queen of the laying hens, from Chickenlandia have gone missing but when a murder occurs during the investigation the gals are quickly on the case.

This series is for the fans of the over the top humorous cozies that keep a reader laughing from start to finish. Being from Indiana myself I wasn’t able to pass up this series and while Knobby Waters is fictional many of the other towns mentioned aren’t so I’m familiar with the area and can just imagine these crazy characters there. Of course being a smaller publisher I can see it could use a bit of polish but the laughs and fun story are more than worth it.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

A super entertaining cozy mystery that will keep you smiling right up until you have to jump in and save the day. This was a quick read for me but I enjoyed it so much, I may have to read it again! Anyone who has chickens...I have 17...will recognize themselves in this book.

Each instalment in this series is better than the previous and all are fun to read and engrossing.
I love the humour, the well written and quirky cast of characters, and the well plotted mystery.
The mystery is solid and it kept me guessing.
Can't wait to read the next instalment.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Read my share of cozies but this book had to be the most fun to date. I giggled and laughed out loud several times, very humorous. Had to think at times the who what and where. Definitely will read more from this author.

This is the third book in the Shady Hoosier Detective series and I’ve loved them all! These stories always seem to crack me up! They are fast, easy reading mysteries that just make me smile. I actually liked this chicken mystery even more the previous two. Always hilarious, always fun to read!
Thank you to NetGalley and. BooksGoSocial for this copy!

RJ and Veenie are back solving mysteries in Pawpaw County, Indiana. This time they are hired to find a missing wife, Gertie, who is also the prize winning BBQ Chicken Queen. While they search for her they are also on the hunt for a pair of chickens. They run across thefts from a chicken farm and a dead body. With Veenie being accused of the murder they've gotta figure out what the heck is going on.

I love this series. It's full of senior sleuths having fun solving mysteries and being together. This book also introduces us to a new character that just may play a bigger role in coming books.

Chickenlandia Mystery is a hilarious Southern mystery adventure. Ruby Jane and Veenie are elderly private detectives who have been tasked to find a missing prize rooster and laying hen (Dewey and Ginger) for Ma and Peepaw Horton, owners of Chickenlandia, an organic, free range chicken farm set in the town of Knobby Waters in PawPaw County, Indiana. Although it’s set in Indiana, it’s definitely a Southern Comedy which turns into a murder mystery when Veenie is accused of killing a rival with a forklift. Ruby Jane and the ankle bracelet wearing Veenie do not let this slow them down as they race to solve a murder, find Dewey and Ginger, and bring peace back to Knobby Waters. If you love mysteries and Southern Comedy, you will love this book, which is #3 in the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency series by Daisy Pettles.. #mysteries #comedy #ShadyHoosierDetectiveAgency #Chickenlandia #DaisyPettles

Another good fun yarn with RJ and Veenie. For a pair of seniors they do get into some scrapes as trainee private investigators. Who'd have thought that there could be so many chickens in one small area - and that they'd cause so much mayhem.

Loved it - made me chuckle.

I read a free advance review copy. This review is voluntary, honest and my own opinion.

Like most readers of this, I'd recommended it if you're seeking something funny, light, and different. I live in Indiana, but this is nothing like anything I've seen. But that doesn't change it's entertainment value.

I really appreciate the copy for review!!

Yes this book is nutty, yes the premise is humorous (the theft of two chickend and the disappearance of a prize-winning BBQ chicken cook), but ultimately it left me a bit flat. I don't know if it was the setting 9a very small rural town in Indiana), the two detectives (think of them as Senior Citizen versions of Stephanie Plum & Lula), or the overall tone, but I disd not find it very amusing. Probably more my fault than the book's.

This is the third book of the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. It is filled with tons of wit and laugh out loud moments.

Lavinia (Veenie) and Ruby Jane (RJ) are two senior PI's, whose mode of transportation is a 1960 Impala are back solving mysteries. When they are hired to find a missing wife, they land a job looking for a missing prizewinning rooster, and favorite hen from Chickenlandia, a free range chicken farm. Ma Horton informs them that Hiram Krupsky, The Hoosier Chicken Wing King, has been after her and Peepaw to sell their farm to him. Hiram shows up at their office wanting to hire them because someone is stealing from his business. RJ and Veenie go undercover as employees and since no one asked if Veenie had a current driver's license, she was assigned to Forklift duty.

What amounts to solving cases ends up in hilarious situations! Veenie is scared of chickens, but requires to run after one when it steals her dentures. RJ gets a makeover, and suddenly has unwanted attention from the males. RJ hasn't dated since her husband, and he passed twenty years ago! Meanwhile, Veenie plays matchmaker. Great series!

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I always laugh out loud when I take a book trip to Knobby Waters, IN! That Veenie is such a hoot. The voice of the story is RJ who describes things hilariously to begin with but I always lose it when Veenie sticks her dentures out at people. RJ and Veenie hadn't had a case for quite some time, but in the book they got two, one of which was a guy from a large corporation. They were sure that the disappearance of one of the women in town had something to do with the murder that ended up happening at the Chickenlandia egg company. Veenie can't seem to shake her goofy ex, Fergus, but he came in pretty handy in this book. It's always a funny roller coaster ride with these two awesome senior sleuths! There's a teaser chapter of book four at the end of this book, and now I'm anxious to read that one.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book provided by the publisher through NetGalley, and my opinions are my own.

bookshelves: rural, situational-humor, verbal-humor, private-investigators, amateur-sleuth, senior-citizens, mysteries

I think this really was set in Southern Wisconsin! Crazy funny! RJ and Veenie have got to be the wackiest pair of amateur sleuth/private investigators to ever solve a mystery, but solve things they do. First there's the missing wife and don't forget the chickens! The publisher's blurb is pretty good and no spoilers here, so just sit back and laugh yourself silly while they do the jobs.
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This book has the same pace and great descriptions as the first two in the series. The plot is good and there's a lot of funny stuff. Good, light entertainment.

Yes, RJ and Veenie are at it again.

This third caper with our favorite senior snooping sleuths starts off with a missing person. Gertie Wineager wasn't winning any popularity contests, but she was the reigning queen of the BBQ chicken cook-off - part of the annual Chickenlandia Festival.

The plot rapidly thickens when the prize-winning rooster and top laying hen go missing from Ma & Peepaw Horton's - the actual Chickenlandia that the festival is named for.

Add in a rival egg laying operation, a chicken wing king, and Veenie's intense distrust of chickens, and our gal pals are scrambling to find out what happened to Gertie the BBQ queen, Dewey the rooster, and Ginger the hen.

Oh...and then there's Veenie's forklift accident - and a dead body! Yikes!

Fear not, dear readers. By story's end, the cluckers are back in their coop, and the reign of Gertie remains.

Who knows what trouble Veenie and RJ will find themselves in next? I can hardly wait to find out!