Here's both a new series and a new author for me: Killer Content: a Brooklyn Murder Mystery by Olivia Blacke. There's some good humor here: Main character is from a small town in Louisiana: "Calling my hometown a one-horse town would vastly exaggerate the number of horses." (p. 1) She is apartment sitting for an aunt who is traveling for the next three months. The bookstore where she works offers not only books but locally crafted beer. When a waitress she barely knows dies and it is flagged as an accident, she decides to prove that it wasn't. Find out how she does that, there are some good clues, you might even figure it out! (I didn't, it came as a surprise to me)!

Continuing on the theme of a new author and series, here's one that came as a recommendation from County Reader: Some Danger Involved, by Will Thomas. It's more than a cozy, but not as harsh and gritty as some, either. Set in Victorian England an 'Enquiry Agent' is looking for a new assistant. He hires a down and out, homeless man with a prison record (but with a good education) and the adventure begins! There's lots of history here, too. I was not aware of the feeling towards Jews at that time in English history so this was a bit of an eyeopener. Well written (be sure to read about the author) but depressing, too. It's the first of the series and I've ordered book two.

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