FRIDAY: Stamped Out

April Buchert has gone home for a job - at least, that's what she has told her family. In reality, her life has fallen apart and she needed to get away from her soon-to-be ex-husband and his tarnished reputation and start her life over again. So, she is working for her father on a restoration project. No one expected to find that skull.... well, no one except the murderer.

The stamping aspect of the story was secondary to the mystery - it was really a way to introduce some of the supporting cast for the series. Non-stamping mystery lovers will still be able to dig in to try to solve the mystery with April. The next volume will be Inked Up and it comes out August 4, 2009. The only caution I have is for more sensitive readers who might be distracted by the fact that April's father is gay. I found it to be a minor plot point in the description of the characters and their relationships to one another and it wasn't a distraction for me.