In honour of Canada Day, today's post will be books recommended by Canadian Reader. :-)

I'll start with Death of an Old Git, by Andrea Frazer, the first in the Falconer Files Murder Mysteries. What a great start! What if the victim was so disliked no one much cared if he was dead? Did everyone in the small community have a motive? Just a hoot of a read! Great characters ... especially the new (young) partner to Inspector Falconer. More books have been ordered and will be part of our book swap when Canadian Reader is here for a visit this summer!

This next title was another outstanding find! A Killer in King's Cove, by Iona Whishaw, is the first in the Lane Winslow Mystery Series. It's set nearby, in Nelson, B.C. just after World War II. Newcomer, Lane Winslow, is hoping to settle in quietly, she is looking for a refuge after working as a spy, which of course, she can reveal to no one. When a body shows up in the creek providing water to her (and a few of the neighbors) with her name in the jacket pocket, all sorts of secrets begin to emerge. And not just hers. Canadian Reader warned me, it would keep me up late, and it did. While I will have to wait for the next books until our summer visit, CR is already up to book four!

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