A Death in the Dales, by Frances Brody, is part of her Kate Shackleton Mystery series. Kate has brought her niece, recovering from diphtheria, to the country from London because the air is better. She will be staying in the house of a woman who died recently and is surprised by a visit from a friend of the deceased with notes about a murder, arrest, and hanging from ten years earlier ... she was convinced the wrong man was arrested. Was he? And how can Kate go about proving it? A classic English cozy!

People are dying in the small town of Pomme Valley and there's a hint in the title of J.M. Poole's next Corgi Case Files mystery: Case of the Muffin Murders. As with the earlier books in this series, it's fun to watch the Corgi dogs at work, they really are part of the team! Why would anyone use muffins as weapon?

In the stack of books that Canadian Reader left is the fourth in the Isle of Man Ghostly Cozy series by Diana Xarissa. A loose dog is found on the beach. Fenella knows the dog, and knows the owner would never just turn him out alone. When she goes to look for him, however, he is not to be found. Soon another dog is found. Is someone targeting dog owners? And why? Dogs and Danger has the answers.

Also in the stack from Canadian Reader was Inkier Than the Sword, the third in the Falconer Files Murder Mystery series by Andrea Frazer. Again Inspector Falconer is partnered with Sergeant Carmichael, but, Falconer must admit, he is improving. In a nearby small town someone is sending 'poison pen' letters to the residents, each time mentioning a dark secret from that person's past. Who, and why? When the local, famous author ends up dead, all signs point to her ... but that would be too easy, right?

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