One of the really fun things about reading is the ability to travel through the authors writings. Diane Morlan takes the reader to a small town in Minnesota in her two books Too Dead to Dance and Shake Down Dead. Three childhood friends work together to discover the secrets behind murder in both books. Jennifer Penny, Megan Murphy and Sister Bernadine have been friends since grade school and the same dynamics that bound them together then connect them now that Jennifer has returned to their hometown. Morlan does a great job of grabbing the readers attention from the very first. The first book centers around a Polka festival and highlights the areas heritage. The second book highlights deals with local politics and the secrets of a prominent family in the area. Jennifer jumps right into solving these mysteries and puts herself in peril as most good cozy protagonists tend to do. I look forward to Morlan’s next mystery and a return to Minnesota with the girls.