Overall I liked The Bookshop on the Corner, by Jenny Colgan. I liked how the main character started over when the library (a small branch) closed. Her 'talent', it seems, is to match up people and books. She ends up in a small village in Scotland (she is from London) where there is no library and no bookstore. She buys and converts a large van into a mobile bookstore. It goes over very well! The characters are great, the descriptions of the Scottish countryside are delightful (think of those long days of summer). Only (slightly) negative comment (and this is just me, I'm pretty sure) is that it was just too 'romancy' for me. Still, I'm glad I read it.

Here is the second in the Lady Hardcastle Mystery series: In the Market for Murder, by T E Kinsey. As with the first, I was up late reading it, this is just a delightful series! This time, after an 'interesting' trip to the cattle market, a local farmer ends up dead. In the pub. Face down in his dinner. Why? Then there is a theft where nothing is stolen. More and more suspects keep popping up, there's even a ghost (or is there?) We also learn more about Armstrong (the maid) and just what she learned when they were in China. Lots of fun, and a great mystery, too. :-)

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