Have a "May Day"...

May Day by Jess Lourey is the first "Murder-by-Month Mystery" written by the author. Mira James, the main character, lives in Minneapolis and has been taking it easy since she graduated from college. Leaving behind a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, Mira packs up her cat, and her car and moves to rural Battle Lake, Minnesota where she takes a job as an Assistant Librarian and a part-time reporter. She meets a nice guy who she thinks is the perfect man, until he turns up dead in the reference stacks! Determined to figure out why her perfect man was taken from her, Mira dives into the hidden mysteries of Battle Lake which includes old land deeds with Ojibwe secrets, senior citizens with freaky social lives, a group of thirty-year-old high school buddies with some serious grudges, and general quirkiness that develops in small towns. The book is humorous and contains an action-packed mystery--Mira James is a zany and smart heroine who flings herself into life as best as she can. Author Jess Lourey lives in Alexandria, Minnesota with her two kids and her black cat and teaches English and Sociology at the local college. The rest of the books in the series are: June Bug, Knee High by the Fourth of July, and August Moon