Date with Mystery is one of those reads that will keep you up late at night, just like the previous titles in the Dales Detective Series by Julia Chapman. It starts out as an easy case: track down a death certificate for someone who died over twenty years ago, but is now part of a Will ... one that was recently changed, too. Everything should have been left to the son, the only living member of the family, so why did she change it just before she died? Samson is about to learn that all is not as it seems and so asks Delilah for help. This is good for her as she is about to lose her beloved dog to her ex-husband and new wife. Can they be stopped? It's his name on the papers, after all. You will uncover long buried secrets and the reasons behind them. Will stop here, but 'something' will make you chuckle. :-)

It's the day of the annual fair. Store owners are out displaying and selling wares, from books to pastries, it should all be fun. Until (of course) a body is found. In the local church. Someone is arrested, but Gemma and Mavis don't think he did it and set out to find out who did. As in all small towns, this will uncover secrets from the past which many would just as soon stay buried. A Murder at the Church is book two in The Bookshop Mysteries, by S.A. Reeves.

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