Pot Luck a Homeschool Murder Mystery is a novella and the III Book in The Stephanie Beroe Chronicles by J.A. ST. Thomas.
The latest, delicious thriller; book III of the Stephanie Beroe Chronicles sheds light on how differences between neighbors and friends, infused with a dose of alienation, duress, and let's not forget pot, can make you fast friends or make you enemies.
The world in lock down, school closed, Stephanie creates a micro-school for her niece in a small hippie town outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Outdoor playdates and house-ing the group are wonderful new exercises in family, community, sharing food, and friendship; something she desperately seeks during a time of isolation. But what seems like a great idea, becomes a multi-layered recipe for murder that makes her profession in the cannabis industry indelibly pedestrian.
It's clear this group of PTA women is dynamic, but maybe not in a good way as a CEO of a ranching family with a vendetta against plant-based, diet enthusiasts, a domineering Christian missionary from California whose husband is a closet, flat-earth math teacher, a morose, vegetarian, doctor's wife with a dangerous personal secret, and a militant, vegan momtrepreneur, go into survival mode. Inveigled by an irretrievable desire to fit into "normal society," a familiar, unyielding tolerance, that may be Stephanie's biggest enemy stirs an already boiling pot when women start turning up stoned and dead.