Mobbed by Carol Higgins Clark 255 pages

Mobbed is a light funny mystery set at the New Jersey Shore. Nora and Jack Reilly plan to spend the weekend with Nora’s parents when Nora receives a call from her mother asking her to arrive early to help her monitor the garage sale being given by her friends unpredictable mother. The mother has advertised that she is selling items belonging to a famous actress who had rented her home and left them behind. The actress disappears after dead roses are thrown at the rented house. Unable to contact their daughter, the actress, Cleo’s parents hire Nora to find her. There is also a disreputable boyfriend of one of Nora’s friends who Nora and Jack witness becoming engaged to one of the women running the garage sale. Nora is following leads in every direction while trying find Cleo. The leads sometimes become tangled.