There was a fun connection with A Dangerous Collaboration, part of the Veronica Speedwell Mystery series, by Deanna Raybourn and real life recently. Veronica is off to a small island in search of a rare butterfly, and a card I received featured butterflies. :-) There's more to just searching for the butterfly, of course, and the guests that have been invited to this small island are asked to search for a woman who went missing, on her wedding day, a few years back. The castle is full of secret passages, the crossing (by small boat) might be short, but can be very treacherous, there are several people with a possible motive ... and maybe a ghost, who plays the harpsichord.

I had to chuckle over the discovery of the body in this Ginger Gold Mystery, Murder on Fleet Street, by Lee Strauss ... it was a wealthy, important person. Found in a bathtub. In the apartment of his mistress. How to keep it from the press, and still conduct a discreet investigation? And of course, who and why? The victim had a wife, there were connections to his work as a spy during the war, he had been given a job because of his title, not his skills (he had none for this job), or was there some other reason?

Reading Hermit With Dog