Here's a promising start to a new series: Cruel Candy, by Mildred Abbott. It's in her series called A Cozy Corgi Mystery, and, not surprisingly, there is a Corgi! The main character, Winifred (better known as Fred) has moved back home to open a bookstore. Things get complicated when her dog, Watson, discovers a body in the vacant store space.

Canadian Reader kindly left two of the Aunt Bessie books for me and I've tried to space them out so I won't have too long to wait for the next visit and more of the series. Aunt Bessie Decides, the next in Diana Xarissa's Isle of Man Cozy Mystery series was, perhaps, the funniest of the books so far. It starts with an .... interesting performance of a not quite Shakespeare troop doing "Much Ado About the Shrew", which leads to, of course, a body.

Reading Hermit With Dog