There's just one room left to clean and organize so guests can use it, and it's the library. While Janet is carefully taking the books off the shelves and dusting behind them she finds a hidden panel, and in the space a piggy bank. With something inside. Meanwhile, a neighbor and good friend has come under suspicion for some illegal goings on at the local pharmacy. Could he be involved? The Donaldson Case, by Diana Xarissa, is the fourth in her Markham Sisters Cozy mystery series.

If it seems like I am reading a lot of the mysteries by Diana Xarissa, I am! Canadian Reader and I are comparing lists so we can do a massive swap and share in December. In the seventh of the Isle of Man Cozy books, Inspector Rockwell is looking for a house to buy. Aunt Bessie goes along on his search. You just know something has to happen, right? It does, and it could be connected to something that happened thirty years ago. The plot thickens (as they say), when something unexpected is found in a storage unit some distance away that might also be connected. See if you can figure it all out in Aunt Bessie Goes.

Strangeways to Oldham is the first in The Belchester Chronicles, by Andrea Frazer. When we first meet Amanda, that is, Lady Amanda Golightly, (a woman of both a certain age, and a certain social class), she has received a ticket in the mail. For speeding. In a hospital zone. On her tricycle. When she visits the local nursing home she discovers a body (and she's pretty sure death was not natural), and an old friend. She 'borrows' a bit of what she is sure is evidence (there's lot more, should the police want it), and 'breaks' her friend out of the nasty place. And that's just in the first pages! The police dismiss her concerns as the ramblings of an old woman so she sets out to prove it was murder. Not a bad start!

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