Halloween in Welvin, Massachusetts, is supposed to be simple. Candy, costumes, and the annual parade that keeps the small town glowing orange and proud. But this year, the pumpkins are not smiling. They are armed. When a mysterious explosion rocks Frank Peniston's porch, the town's neon-vested vigilante wakes up chained inside an escape room built by a pyromaniac scarecrow calling himself Mister Carve.
The rules are simple: solve the riddles or watch Welvin burn. Every pumpkin in town is wired to detonate when the clock hits zero. Now Frank must battle his way through a maze of fake horror props, real explosives, and puzzles that would make a corporate retreat cry. His best friend Ronald is tearing through the streets smashing jack-o-lanterns before they blow, while Frank fights for his life in a carnival of fog, cobwebs, and fake blood that turns horrifyingly real.
Armed with duct-taped gadgets, bad kidneys, and pure spite, Frank will take on Welvin's most explosive Halloween yet in a satirical mystery packed with absurd action, over-the-top pulp violence, and laugh-out-loud noir parody. Trick, Treat, Detonate is Book 24 of the Frank Peniston Mysteries, the series that asks: what if cozy mysteries had explosions, gadget-fueled chaos, and more Limp Bizkit references than should be legal?
Halloween in Welvin, Massachusetts, is supposed to be simple. Candy, costumes, and the annual parade that keeps the small town glowing orange and proud. But this year, the pumpkins are not smiling. They are armed. When a mysterious explosion rocks Frank Peniston's porch, the town's neon-vested vigilante wakes up chained inside an escape room built by a pyromaniac scarecrow calling himself Mister Carve.
The rules are simple: solve the riddles or watch Welvin burn. Every pumpkin in town is wired to detonate when the clock hits zero. Now Frank must battle his way through a maze of fake horror props, real explosives, and puzzles that would make a corporate retreat cry. His best friend Ronald is tearing through the streets smashing jack-o-lanterns before they blow, while Frank fights for his life in a carnival of fog, cobwebs, and fake blood that turns horrifyingly real.
Armed with duct-taped gadgets, bad kidneys, and pure spite, Frank will take on Welvin's most explosive Halloween yet in a satirical mystery packed with absurd action, over-the-top pulp violence, and laugh-out-loud noir parody. Trick, Treat, Detonate is Book 24 of the Frank Peniston Mysteries, the series that asks: what if cozy mysteries had explosions, gadget-fueled chaos, and more Limp Bizkit references than should be legal?