I was saddened to hear that award-winning actress Angela Lansbury had died October 11 at the age of 96. Lansbury’s amazing career spanned more than eight decades and included dozens of movie and TV roles. She was perhaps best known for playing amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the long-running mystery series Murder, She Wrote.
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Erin did not find the body. In fact, she had nothing to do with the body. She wasn’t responsible for the stranger’s death, or for his body being discovered. But she would like to have it all sorted out by the time Mrs. Peach returns from her cruise.
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Eager to start the next Zachary Goldman Mystery? Zachary is on the trail of a couple of burglars in this one. Or is he?
Their Walls Were Empty is #12 in this private investigator series, but can be read as a stand alone.
T. Olson says: As usual, this is a very well written and interesting story, easy to read and with excellent characters. This time there’s a mystery within a mystery, and a nice little twist at the end.
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I’m not sure how many of the books I have read in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. Maybe just one other one. The Kalahari Typing School for Men is number four in the series. It can, of course, be read as a stand alone. The mysteries dealt by the ladies are not suspenseful and thrilling, but instead take you on a journey into the culture and streets of Botswana. It is a slower pace, with lots of domestic details and carefully drawn characters. It is easy to find yourself pulled into these books even if you are used to the faster-paced mystery thrillers.
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I am nearly finished The Other People by C.J. Tudor, and it has been an interesting journey! A well-built psychological mystery, with a bit of the supernatural thrown in, you’re never quite sure what is real and how much can be explained logically.
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The air is getting cooler, the leaves are falling from the treats and are beautiful shades of yellow and orange. And that means that Halloween coming! I have pulled together a couple of Halloween book packages for you!
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Click Here for Murder by Donna Andrews has been a fun and clever read so far. The main narrator (it has multiple points of view) is an AI personality that has gained sentience. I have not read book one in the Turing Hopper series, but there is enough backstory for me to understand the main points of what has happened prior to this story. I have read some of Donna Andrews’ Meg Langslow series, which is quite good.
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Crafts and murder don’t normally go hand-in-hand, but normal deserted magazine crafts editor Anastasia Pollack’s world the day her husband permanently cashed in his chips in Las Vegas and her comfortable middle-class life crapped out. Anastasia knew nothing of her husband’s gambling addiction. Now she’s dealing with debt greater than the GNP of Uzbekistan. She’s also stuck with Lucille, her semi-invalid Communist mother-in-law and leader of the octogenarian Daughters of the October Revolution.
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Detective “Parks Pat” Patenaude is called to an idyllic scene in the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Where the scene is marred only by the body of a man who apparently got in the way of beaver construction.
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City Hall wanted the death of Samuel Keller to be anything but an accident. Confederation Park had seen too many tragedies lately and did not need another added to the tally.
But Detective “Parks Pat” Patenaude had not been expecting to find evidence of murder.
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