Sunday, March 16th, 2008
I just finished another of Jo Dereske's incredibly amusing murder mysteries from the Miss Zukas series. (aka the Library Murder Series).
I picked up a few of these once as a present for a friend of mine who'd just become a library director and somehow never managed to read these. The ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
As I mentioned ages ago, I picked up the first three volumes in Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mystery series. The first one was amusing, although a bit romance-y. The second one, also amusing, but even more romance-y. I liked the first 2 well enough to give the third one a ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I picked up 5 of Laura Lippman's books at Goodwill last year. It turned out they were books 2-6 of a series, so I put them on the to-be-read pile until I could pick up the first one at the library. I eventually decided not to be so neurotic about ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
The Blood Books, Volume I is a double feature under one cover. The main character is Vicki Nelson, an ex-detective in Toronto trying to come to terms with the loss of her job due to a disability. Vicki is losing her vision and has almost no night vision at all. ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
On What Grounds is the first in Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mysteries.
Carolyn Cosi returns to Greenwich Village to manage a coffeehouse. Murder and mayhem ensue. The first book in the series, which is all I've read so far, is a standard who-done-it interspersed with likeable characters, clever plotting, and enough ...
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