A new series by Vicki Delany starts with Elementary, She Read, first in her A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series. Gemma Doyle has moved from London to West London on Cape Cod to help her great uncle run his bookshop. Naturally, the focus in on the Holmes books, and, to attract more shoppers, there are dvds, games, tea sets .... pretty much anything you can think of that features any and all versions of the Great Detective. When an old, possibly valuable, copy of a magazine that contains the first Sherlock Holmes story is found tucked on a shelf, the adventure begins.

The Crowded Grave, by Martin Walker, is part of his Inspector Bruno series. This time a body is found in an archeological dig. A very recent body. Animal rights activists are busy in the area, but are they the real threat or is it something else? Loved the scene where we learn that Bruno hums when he cooks to time what he's cooking. :-)

The Lost Gardens: an English Garden Mystery, by Anthony Eglin, was a book I found when looking for something else. I love it when this happens! An American, Jamie Gibson, finds herself in England due to an inheritance from an unknown person. It's a huge, old estate, and there is money enough to restore it. There are many mysteries here: a body in a well, missing paintings from WWII, hidden entrances ... and is there a connection between the deceased owner and Jamie?

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