Title: The Felons’ Ball
Author: Polly Stewart
Format: 🎧
Narrator: Amanda Stribling
Publisher: HarperAudio Adult/Harper Audio
Genre: Mystery
Pub Date: July 15, 2025
My Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 240

Natalie Macready and her sister Katlyn are Yoga Instructors. Katlyn has the beginners and Natalie the more advanced. One day ear the end of class when the students are preparing for the relaxation part of yoga Amanda one of the advanced students collapses and is bleeding in what looks like a miscarriage. Amanda says she isn’t pregnant. 911 is called and they rush Amanda to the hospital. Natalie finds out that it is a female problem and requires minor surgery but will be fine.
Not sure what this has to do with the story but had me curious.

Trey Macready is the father of Natalie and Katlyn and will be celebrating his fifth birthday so a large party is being planned in congestion with the annual “Felons Ball’ witch is a birthday celebration held the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Trey and his best friend Ben Marsh were distributors and enforcers for the local distillers who made their small hamlet of Ewald, Virginia, the moonshine capital of the world. But that was years ago, and now the only tie to their criminal past is the ‘Felons’ Ball’ so the he participants all have tales of their youthful exploits that they love to share.’

Only this year Ben is found dead after Trey’s fiftieth celebration,
Ben is believed to have secretly been in love with Natalie who is much younger.
(There are actually a lot of secrets in this story!)
Natalie has always had a soft spot for Ben and sets out to find the truth about his killing.

Story had my attention I soon struggled to stay focused. I did finish and was surprises as to whodunit!

Want to thank NetGalley and Harper Audio Adult/ Harper Audio for this audiobook eGalley.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for July 15, 2025.