It took a while for Lord James Harrington and the Michaelmas Fair Mystery, by Lynn Florkiewicz to come out (it's explained at the front of the book). It was worth the wait and I'm glad the author is writing again. It's busy in the tiny town of Cavendish: a wedding, a school reunion, an old car run, not to mention the annual Michaelmas Fair. When a body is found, it looks to be fairly simple, the man was not well liked, but then two more bodies are found. And the bodies are posed, with a message. Finding the connection made for another grand read by this author.

When County Reader and I finally touched base again ... masked, outside, and so forth due to Covid, of course, one of the things we did was swap books. In the stack that came from her was Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel, by Ruth Hogan. I loved her earlier book, The Keeper of Lost Things, so was eager to try another of her books. As before, there is an interesting story and some great characters, along with a few surprises! Life was not easy for Tilda, but she made the best of things and when her mother dies and she returns home to clean things out she learns, well, a lot of why things happened as they had.

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