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The highlight of my week was Saturday when my sister, Linda, and I attended the Dublin (Ohio) Irish Festival. Neither of us had ever been to it, although it's been going on for 35 years and attracts over 100,000 each year. We had a great time. I saw an Irish...
To Err is Cumin by Leslie Budewitz
I can repeat what I've said before about Leslie Budewitz' Spice Shop mysteries. They are a treat for the senses. With all the discussion of spices, food, flowers, and the use of all of them, Budewitz challenges readers to absorb her stories through their senses....
Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor
Because I'm such a fan of Sarah Stewart Taylor's Maggie D'Arcy mysteries set in Ireland, I was a little reluctant to try the first in a new historical mystery series set in small-town Vermont in the mid-1960s. I should have known Taylor wouldn't steer readers wrong...
A Cold, Cold World by Elena Taylor
With a brutal winter storm bearing down on the small valley town of Collier, Washington in the Cascade Mountains, Sheriff Bet Rivers struggles with her own insecurities, and her determination to keep the citizens of Collier safe. A Cold, Cold World by Elena Taylor...
Death in Dark Glasses by George Bellairs
Lately, I've been picking up one of George Bellairs' Inspector Littlejohn mysteries when I need a police procedural fix. Death in Dark Glasses was available through Kindle Unlimited, so I read the seventh in the series. There's a little of everything in this book -...
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman
My notes for Alice Hoffman's short story, "The Bookstore Sisters", are almost as long as the story itself. It's the first of three stories in the Once Upon a Time Bookshop series involving two sisters and the Once Upon a Time Bookshop on Brinkley's Island, Maine....