Jackrabbit Junction Jitters is the sequel to Dance of the Winnebagos, which I read over the holidays and pegged as a "guilty pleasure," pleasurable enough to add the next Ann Charles mystery to my reading list. J-cubed, if you will, picks up where Dance left off. Harley and Ruby are about to be married and Claire and Mac find themselves embroiled in another mine-related mystery.
The strongest part of this book is the addition of two new characters, Claire's sister, Katie, and her mother, Deborah. The family dynamics - and fireworks - provide some of the more amusing incidents in Jitterbug Junction. That said, much of the plot requires entirely too much suspension of reality to be a really great read. I noted in my review of Dance that one of the big weaknesses of that book was that Claire frequently decisions that beggar belief; it's evidently a genetic trait her sister shares. The biggest difference between the first and second book in this series is though is that the first features a more compelling mystery, which makes up for the book's other weaknesses.
In the end, Jackrabbit Junction Jitters is more guilty than pleasure.
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