When a body is found in the old chapel of the Strict and Particular, DI Falconer and his young DS, Carmichael, are sent back to the small town of Steynham St Michael (there was a murder here before). Strict and Peculiar is the seventh book by Andrea Frazer in her Falconer Files Mystery series. Although the chapel is old, the body is new, and there was a message written on the wall nearby. And what about strange, hooded figures seen wandering about? Will it help that Carmichael and Falconer already know some of the people who live there?

While reading a richly detailed non-fiction book I decided I needed something 'lighter' to read between chapters. I opted for Murder at Hartigan House, the second in the Ginger Gold Mystery series by Lee Strauss. That might have been a mistake as I started by switching books at each chapter, but soon was reading just this book! Ginger Gold returns to her family home in England only to be told by the butler that in opening the house for this return, a body was found. In a locked room. In a house that had been empty for a decade. Ginger and her friend, Haley Higgins (now in medical school) set out to discover the who and the why. When they learn that on the night before the house was closed up her father had had a party, they decide to have one as well, inviting all those guest who were there then. This idea backfires when there is another murder. Or does it?

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