I really am trying to make the West Wales Murder Mysteries by P.F. Ford last, but they are just so good it's easy to just pluck the next one of the shelf! Several old cottages, once home to miners and their families, are due for demolition, until, of course a body is found. The victim is dressed in fancy and expensive clothes, what was she doing in one of the shabby cabins? There is evidence, too, of, perhaps, squatters in another cabin as well. The team sets out to figure things out, and what a lot of interesting twists and turns there are in A Body in the Cottage. Clear your reading time, it's hard to put this one down.

It's always fun getting a box of books from Wandering Reader as the mysteries that are found at garage and estate sales are different than those found up here. Return to Sender is one of those. It is book four in Tonay Kappes A Mail Carrier Cozy Mystery series. Bernadette Butler delivers the mail ... on foot ... to folks she's known for years. One day a registered letter is slipped into her bag by mistake, but since she knows who it is for, she figures she can deliver, get his signature and so on. He is not at his place of business and his partner seems puzzled by the letter. Then, later, when there is a 'return to sender' box the sender is found dead. There is a 'gadget' here that the creators were going to patent in both names, but that registered letter? It was from the patent bureau with just one name on it. And what about that return to sender package? Remember, too, this is neighborhood mail carrier who has solved crimes in the past (even though I have yet to read about them), so she's at it again ... and she has the help of the Front Porch Ladies for help ... those 'women of a certain age' who like to watch what is going on the neighborhood. A fun read, even jumping in at book four. :-)

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