I do love reading mysteries!

Die Like an Eagle, by Donna Andrews is the next book in the Meg Langslow Mystery series. This time the mystery revolves around the start of the Little League Summer Baseball games, unfinished town projects, a grand surprise from a family member, and a body. In an portable outhouse. Great characters here!

Nancy Atherton is the author of one of my favorite series. Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure is the twenty-first book (!) in that series and (for me, anyway) was a one day read. No murders here, just an interesting mystery, so if you like the more gritty, police procedural plots, stay away. ;-) I loved the connection in this story between something that happened in WWII and present day.

Death Takes Priority by Jean Flowers, is the first in a new series, and, since it is A Postmistress Mystery, fits in so very nicely with all the reading I've been doing about the U.S.P.S! Cassie Miller has gone from a job in a large post office in Boston, to the post office in her small home town in Massachusetts. She arrives at work one day to discover a theft, of phone books. Then a body is found (it is a mystery, after all) and it's her prom date from high school. Will she be welcomed back? Interesting characters and a nice mystery here.

Thanks to Crafty Reader for this book, another 'first' of a new series: Flipped for Murder, by Maddie Day. This series is (or will be) A Country Store Mystery. It too, is set in a small town, with characters who have known each other for a long time. There's a long lost father, a new business and 'planted' rats as well as annoying politicians. It felt a bit ... contrived in places, but it kept me reading right to the end. :-) One of the things I really liked here, though, has nothing to do with the mystery itself, but the binding of the book! So many paperbacks are 'tight' and often hard for stiff hands to keep open (others have said this, too) and this book is 'soft' and easy to manage. Just thought I'd include this. ;-)

A warning here ... Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, the latest in the Flavia de Luce novels, by Alan Bradley, was a one day read! Kicked out of a fancy girls school in Canada, Flavia is happy to be heading back to England. She arrives home only to find her father in the hospital and an annoying cousin has moved in. She discovers a body when delivering a message who, it turns out, is not who people think he was. As Flavia looks for answers, she discovers other with ... interesting pasts. This is a great series!

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