I've decided that Dashing Through the Snowbirds is the book where Meg gives up on sleep. Not only is Christmas just a few days away, but the house is full of visiting Canadians, here to work on a expanding a DNA testing business into the states. It is not going well, the boss is a dreadful man. Meg's Dad is 'up to something' behind a (temporary) fence in the back yard. Bad people keep showing up at the door, what's with that? I do love these Meg Langslow Mystery books by Donna Andrews!

Here's another entry in the Inspector David Graham Mystery series by Alison Golden and Grace Dagnall: The Case of the Uncommon Witness. It is a lovely, quiet day, there is a painting class being held where the students are asked to paint the scene in front of them. A local man staggers into a pub, obviously having been attacked, he will die from his wounds. The investigation takes the Gorey police to the 'privileged' upper crust of society, a group not always easy to investigate! Why would such an ordinary man be murdered? And what's with the (artistic type) painters?

Reading Hermit With Dog