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Roxanne Prescott, former Austin policeman, is leading her first tour for Irish Eyes Travel Agency, owned by her aunt, who contracted chicken pox shortly before the start of the Historical Battlefields and Gardens Tour of Virginia. Eight months earlier, Roxanne had watched her partner die, and, even though she had alwasy wanted to be a cop, her grandfather and great-grandfather had been Texas Ranger, and her father was a policeman, she thought it was time for a change. The first night of the tour, which Roxanne has privately named Guns and Roses, Blanche Weddington slips in the hotel during a get-together, falls, and breaks her ankle. The tour members are all wealthy and mostly older, but there is one 10 year old girl travelling with her grandmother. Small mishaps keep following the group. One morning the sugar bowls on the breakfast tables are found to be filled with salt, and the bus has a flat tire; at another stop, some of the luggage contains bags of dog feces; and another night many of the members of the tour group are awakened in the middle of the night by someone calling and laughing, but nothing serious happens until they reach Williamsburg, which Heather, the 10 year old, had been especially keen to visit. I liked this book better than Cannon's POCKETFUL OF KARMA. The venue is an integral part of the story and the characters are each individuals who react differently to each annoyance. The tour agency is also a good way of avoiding the Cabot Cove syndrome but Roxanne might want to watch herself or she will end up with no friends.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2001
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