Cold as Ice Cream, #13 in the Auntie Clem’s Bakery series went live this past weekend. If you did not preorder it or get a chance to buy it yet, head on over to get a copy! It’s fizzy, it’s fun, it’s… murder.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.
I am most of the way through Death Without Company, which is book #2 in Craig Johnson’s Longmire Mysteries series. I was not aware before I started it, but this series is the basis for a Netflix series called Longmire. I just checked, and it’s available on the Canadian version of Netflix as well as the US.
Craig Johnson takes you on a picturesque journey through Wyoming in a slow-burn mystery surrounding the death of a Basque woman in a nursing home. The former sheriff believes that her death was murder and puts Sheriff Walt Longmire onto it (rather insistently.) And of course he turns out to be right, or there wouldn’t be much of a story to tell.
If you like your mysteries fast-moving and dark, this is not the series for you, but if you enjoy the journey and meeting people along the way, you will enjoy this one.
He took a sip of his coffee and nodded along with me. “It is not like women are any fun to be around, that they are soft, that they smell good, or that they…”
Craig Johnson, Death Without Company
Johnson takes us back to the rugged landscape of Absaroka County, Wyoming, for Death Without Company. When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches fifty years into the mysterious woman’s dramatic Basque past. Aided by his friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and newcomer Santiago Saizarbitoria, Sheriff Longmire must connect the specter of the past to the present to find the killer among them.
Fizzy fun! I like that. LOL It’s a great teaser too. Here’s mine for today. Hope you’re having a good week.