I jumped into the Veronica Vale Investigates series, by Kitty Kildare with book ten. I'll admit, it was because it was a winter/Christmas mystery. Death at the Thistle Inn turned out to be an excellent read and it wasn't hard to start the series this far in. I promptly went back and found the first book (which is also excellent). Folks have gathered at this remote Scottish castle for a wedding. When the hostess (actually the wedding planner) is found dead, in a locked room, the celebration becomes a hunt for the killer. Turns out, there are lots of secrets amongst those invited and so lots of suspects. Humans aren't the only ones with secrets, the castle has a few, too. You'll love Angus, always in his kilt (and with cute knees)(!).

Knowing the first book to the above series would be arriving soon, I opted for a short read, which was The Quinn File, book 17 in the Aunt Bessie Cold Case Mystery series by Diana Xarissa. This time the cold case unit is meeting in London rather than on the Isle of Man, which allows for some wonderful descriptions of walks around the city, and restaurants with remarkable food. It involves an exclusive (very exclusive) club and someone who wanted to join. He was killed before the vote for his admission was even taken. Why? Since it happened at a dinner at the club there are just a few suspects, but they all had good alibis and so the case went cold. Can the cold case crew see what the first investigators missed?

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