Canadian Reader suggested this book to me: Fatalities and Folios, by Ace Bookens. It's the first in the Poe Baxter Book series. Poe is about to start on her first assignment of a new job ... that of book finder! She will be working for her Uncle, who has a business searching out rare books and he is getting too old to travel. The book in question is in Scotland, and is a collection of ancient folk tales and lore, and it comes with a curse, or so the story goes. Any who owns the book sees monsters ... monsters in bodies of water ... any sort of water ... puddles, tubs, sinks .... and (of course) death often follows. Since this is her first job, her uncle has arranged for her to travel with another book finder, who just happens to be Poe's best friend. (Yes, Uncle Fritz did this on purpose)(!) A good mystery, good characters, some nice touches of humor ... all in all, not a bad start. :-)

It should come as no surprise, really, that the murders in Rotten to the Core, part of the Lady Hardcastle Mystery series by T E Kinsey, all have something to do with apples. It is summer, an unusually hot summer, which means an early harvest. Usually this is a good thing, until the bodies start appearing. It's a different means of death each one, but all the bodies have a clue, too. And then there's the Weryers ... an ancient order compete with ancient rituals, and a limited membership. Would people kill just to get in? Another fun romp with Lady Hardcastle and her 'maid' Florence. (I love these two characters, they are So NOT what they seem)!

Reading Hermit With Dog