Here I am, back with those two favorite authors again!

The Organist Wore Pumps is the eighth title in the Liturgical Mystery series by Mark Schweizer. There has been an accident (swerving to miss a family of skunks) and Hayden is in a cast so cannot play the organ for the church services. His replacement is someone he knows from his past, and doesn't really like all that much. It's Christmas, or nearly so, and there are all kinds of activities going on leading up to that special day (and beyond). Disrupting this schedule is an obnoxious deacon (his sermons are MUCH too long) who ends up dead. From a bullet from Hayden's gun. ??? How did this happen? Hayden is trying to write a children's book, too ... that should give you a chuckle (remembering how bad is hard core detective stories are ...) ;-)

The body may never have been discovered if the grave digger (fussy about his work) had not checked out the grave he'd dug for the afternoon funeral and noticed things were 'off' about it. Sure enough, at the bottom was a body. It is someone new to the area but everyone liked him, found him to be a good, kind man. Is there something from his past that finally caught up with him? Clues are hard to find. Murder in the Grave, by Irina Shapiro is the fifth Redmond and Haze Mystery book.

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