The Maid's Secret is the third in the Penny Green Mystery series by Emily Organ. Complaints have been made against a local industrialist. Wanting to learn more (and face it, get the story first) Penny Green is sent in to work undercover as a maid in his house. The plot thickens, as they say, when his daughter is poisoned at her birthday party. Penny is now in a good spot to help out with the investigation. Unless someone has figured out she's not who she says she is ...

I'm beginning to think that Inspector Tibbett should just not even try for a nice, quiet vacation, there always seems to be a murder! In The Sunken Sailor, by Patricia Moyes, he and his wife are off for a nice week with some friends on their sailboat. A local has been found dead, and the cause of death has been determined to be an accident. Folks are not so sure about this, he was an experienced sailor after all. There is a small town with the expected quirky characters, lots of motives, and some beautiful descriptions of sailing in this second entry in the Henry Tibbett series.

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