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Sometimes, some days, you
just really get the urge to
bake someone a pie. 🥧

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This was a cute cozy mystery, but not one of my favorites. I actually found it a bit boring. But I did enjoy the setting at a Librarian‘s Conference. And the main character‘s Maine coon cat was a fun - if superfluous - addition.

This was my #ReadOrDonate selection for June. I‘ll bring it to our local Little Free Library. It would be a good beach read for our island‘s summer visitors - light, entertaining, and easily completed in a week.

Books from my closest Little Free Library on the same night.

These books are very formulaic (travel to big historic mansion and bring pets, yell at the staff and other guests, solve a murder) but I did think this was the best one out of the four. I liked the nods to Nancy Drew.

A novel about three generations of women each being about 15 years apart. Mother, daughter and granddaughter. They are trying to figure out their own lives and trying to keep the granddaughter from repeating the pregnancy at 15 cycle. The daughter has suffered from a stroke. Of course there is much drama all the time. Challenges abound, but also you can feel the love. 4/5⭐️

Got the fire pit going for the first time this year.

The Ducote Sisters are asked to investigate spooky goings-on at a friend's home. When a fellow-guest is found dead in his bed, was his death caused by the spirit world or something more mundane?

This seems to have been the last in the series, but I have questions about what happened later. Did the Sisters adopt Benjy? Did he go to study at Athena College and meet Charlie and Diesel? (Or were we told in the main series and I've just forgotten?)

“Do you mean to sit there and tell me you think Cliffwood really is haunted?” Miss An‘gel Ducote regarded her sister with a frown.

#FirstLineFridays
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Soon after Hadley Partridge inherits the family home from his brother Hamish, a skeleton is found in the grounds. Could it be Hamish's wife, Callie, who disappeared about the same time Hadley left the neighbourhood, and allegedly ran away to join him?

Yet another breathtakingly handsome man causing chaos. We do get to meet a certain feline and his human after being teased with the possibility through most of the book.

Everything you want in character and place. Loved this read even better than his legal thrillers. A satisfying collection of stories.