Tragedy at Piddleton Hotel is another series by Emily Organ and since I enjoyed that other one so much I was eager to give the first A Churchill and Pemberley Mystery a try. I must say I did not enjoy it nearly as much. The main character, the widow of a London detective has moved to a small town where she has bought an existing detective agency. She figures she must have picked up some skills as a detective since she was married to one for so long. The business comes with a secretary. They have two cases: a cat that is not eating well and therefore must be getting food elsewhere, where (owner is quite worried), and the death of the town busybody, which (of course) was not an accident. ;-) It was a good story line, I just did not warm up to the characters, but another reader might, so give it a try.

Tall Reader passed on a fantasy book to me, a genre I've not read for a while. It is the second in the Throne of Glass series, and, oddly enough, is called just that: Throne of Glass. Don't miss the conversation with author, Sarah Maas, at the back where she explains how she was inspired by Cinderella! While this is the second in the series, the author did an excellent job of informing the reader has to what happened earlier, I never felt that I had missed too much. The ruling king (a nasty guy) is holding a competition for the King's Champion. Interesting participants have been gathered from around the country. And while magic has been officially banned (books burned, people imprisoned, etc). there's 'something' killing off the competitors. A word of warning (although this could just be me), the final battle scene is extremely violent.

Reading Hermit With Dog