Monday, June 23, 2025

Here is the first in a new (to me) author and series: Date With Death, book one in the Dales Detective Series, by Julia Chapman. What a delight it was! There is humor as well as mystery here. :-) Samson O'Brien has been dismissed from the police force in London (we don't know why) and has returned to his small home town of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales (where the James Herriot books take place). He sets up a small detective agency, sharing the space with a local dating agency (yes, confusion does happen). A suicide (that isn't) leads back to the dating agency so he and the owner (Delilah, and her dog) work together to solve what become several murders. A grand start!

It seems I'm back on track with the Royal Spyness Mystery series, by Rhys Bowen now, with The Proof of the Pudding. Georgiana is pregnant in this one, and due soon. There is a new chef, from France. A certain kitchen helper (Queenie) is not amused, but Pierre can coooook! A neighbor, an author of creepy books, with the name Mordred Mortimer wants to have a dinner party to celebrate his most recent book and hires Pierre. There are thirty guest, most who do not know each other. One of the guests is Agatha Christie! A feature of Mortimer's mansion is the garden, especially the poison garden. When folks take sick after the dinner ... well, let's just say mayhem ensues. And it will get worse, one of the poisons found in the victim wasn't from the garden. Georgiana helps out, of course, even as near to term as she is. :-)

Reading Hermit With Dog

 

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