It was fun getting back to a mystery set in an area I love ... the Pacific Northwest! On Spine of Death, by Tamara Berry, is the second in her By the Book Mystery series. While repairs are being made on the old hardware store she inherited (it's going to be a book store), not one, but two, sets of remains are found. And so it begins ... the remains are female, and identified as women who went missing ... one from decades ago, one more recent. What is the connection? And then there's the odd book, one that Tess had been asked to write a review for, (which she did) but she never read ... turns out, it's not all that well written, but is much, much too close to these murders. So, why did a copy of it show up now? Oh, and it also mentions a third body.

From Canadian Reader comes a recommendation for a wild, crazy, and delightful cozy: Louisiana Longshot, the first in the Miss Fortune Mystery series by Jana Deleon. In an assignment gone wrong for the CIA, Fortune Redding now has a price on her head. Her boss has 'stashed' her in the small town of Sinful, Louisiana, where things should be quiet. Think again! She, or rather the dog in the house she is sitting, finds a bone, a human bone, on her very first day. It belongs to an unsolved mystery from some years back. Enter a group of elderly ladies (known as the Geritol Mafia). Just a hoot!

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