It's back to Pomme Valley and the detective Corgi dogs Sherlock and Watson, in Case of the Abandoned Bones, by J.M. Poole. A skeleton is found buried under a large rock. It dates back to Oregon's Gold Rush days and an unsolved mystery as to the location of a mine. Then, a local book store owner is murdered. What is the connection? And how does one hide a mine so well, for so many years? Keep an eye on the dogs, they often have things figured out before the humans. ;-)

Radio Girls, by Sarah-Jane Stratford is listed as historical/biographical fiction. Be sure to start with the author's note at the back. Set after WWI, during the time when radio, and the BBC were new ... would it last? Would folks trust what they heard? What do you broadcast? (Got a chuckle over the sound effects crew!) Women were new to the workforce (should they even be part of it?) (And votes for women???? Let's not even go there!!) Overall it was an interesting read, but I never warmed up to the main character (although I did like how she changed over the course of the book). I did like learning more about the early days of the BBC, and the historical figures were interesting.

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