Monthly Archives: October 2017

I’ve read and enjoyed all six books in this series. While I think this book could be read stand-alone, I recommend reading the series in order as the character development and relationships are built from book to book.

The series is set in a fictitious town on the shore of Maine. My husband grew up in Camden, Maine and he tells me that Lea Wait is spot on in her descriptions of the types of individuals who live in Maine, the look and feel of the small towns that dot the coast line and also in her history of the state.

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I’ve read many of the Eve Duncan series and, once again, I wish there had been something about Eve as a forensic sculptor. There is a small aside comment but otherwise, the book is really about Jane and Caleb.

Jane has had visions from Cira, a former slave who lived hundreds of years before. Cira has been leading Jane to her family’s treasure of gold coins which are supposedly hidden in Scotland. In this story, not only does Jane have Cira to contend with, suddenly a new individual begins haunting her dreams.

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Brie Hooker is a vegan chef who has come home to visit when one of her twin aunts passes away. She ends up staying to help her remaining Aunt Eva run the goat cheese farm that the two aunts had worked on together.

While she is a vegan, she is okay with fixing non-vegan dishes for family and friends, so the book doesn’t preach too hard about food choices. She is attracted to two different men who are quite carnivorous in their food choices as well. She is just finding her footing, when the family pig makes a gruesome discovery on the farm – one that spells legal problems (and worse) for Aunt Eva.

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I have read each and every book in Julie Mulhern’s The Country Club Murders series. I was astounded with her writing skill in the first book in (“The Deep End”) and each succeeding book has added even more to my delight.

The setting is the early 1970’s in Kansas City and our sleuth, Ellison Russell, is part of the elite country club members. Over the last year (and five prior books), Ellison’s life has been turned upside down. She is trying to breaking free of the privileged mold that she was born into. She wants something different for both herself and for her teenaged daughter, Grace.

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I’ve read most but not all of the TJ Jensen Mystery series. “Fireworks in Paradise” brings us back to the small town where TJ’s family owns a resort.

TJ’s father has been in an accident that claimed the life of an old family friend. It starts looking as if the accident was anything but accidental but the problem is trying to weed down the list of suspects.

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