I love the Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation mysteries by Vaseem Khan, and the most recent, Bad Day at the Vulture Club did not disappoint. There is an old, very old, secretive, very secretive community in Mumbai. One of their beliefs is to put a body out in their forest and let the vultures take care of it. So, when a body appears there, is it really all that odd? Well, yes (of course) it is! A Very Important Person has been murdered. The police think it's just a random killing, but his daughter does not. Enter Inspector Chopra and his delightful baby elephant.

Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders is the first in the A Woman of World War II Mystery series, by Tessa Arlen, and my first read for this author. I read far into the night with this one! It fit nicely with other reads (non-fiction) I've been doing on WWII. In fact, I feel I should have figured something out, but didn't. Trained as an air-raid warden in London, Poppy Redfern returns to her small home town to do that very job. Maintaining black out conditions has become all the more important since there is now an American Airfield nearby. Not everyone is happy with this, especially when the young women start dating the Americans.

I was not sure I was going to read another of the Dear Abby Cozy Mystery books by Sonia Parin, as it is self-published and there have been problems with grammar, tense and so forth (What can I say, Mom was an English teacher), but The Last Ride included a merry-go-round so I gave it a try. The owner of a local eatery, and provider of the town's best coffee, is annoyed by some blogs that have been posted about her cafe. She orders, er, asks Abby to find the person behind them ... and restricts her coffee allotment until she does so! It's an interesting adventure, for sure. :-)

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