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Dead Wake

Secrets of the Past, Burdens of the Present Author: Dawn Lee Mckenna When the local florists tear down a wall, they discover a body that has been hidden, nearly mummified, for decades. Maggie is first on the scene, and it isn’t long before the desiccated John Doe is connected to Bennett Boudreaux, the local kingpin and Maggie’s controversial friend. With Wyatt and Maggie working the case side by side, tensions rise. Wyatt is determined to prove once and for all that Bennett is a bad apple; Maggie is determined to seek the truth, or so she says. When an old [...]

Frances Carden2023-01-16T17:48:43-07:00January 16th, 2023|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, read, reading|

Maid, The

Quirky Maids and Campy Conundrums Author: Nita Prose Molly the Maid works at the Regency Hotel. Molly is obsessed with rules, with cleanliness, with returning everything to a “state of perfection.” She will literarily miss the elephant in the room because she is busy polishing it. When Molly finds the wealthy Mr. Black dead in his bed, it’s little surprise that she doesn’t get the enormity of what she’s seeing . . . that she even started to clean the crime scene before calling for help. What is a surprise, however, is that the police are focusing in on Molly. As [...]

Frances Carden2025-05-07T03:34:17-07:00January 16th, 2023|Tags: book review, fiction, maid, mystery, read, reading|

Snobs

British Aristocracy, Gold-Digging, and Snobbery in the 90s Author: Julian Fellowes From the author who created Downton Abbey and Gosford Park comes a tail of modern upper-class shenanigans, social climbing, backstabbing, occasional polite witticism, and scandal. In Snobs the drawing rooms and estates are all set against the backdrop of the 1990s. Even ruined aristocrats still hold some clout, and Edith Lavery has been raised to land the wealthiest and (unfortunately for her) dullest of them all. Enter Charles Broughton, the wealthy Marquess of Uckfield. Charles isn’t much to look at, and he certainly isn’t that exciting, but he does [...]

Frances Carden2023-01-15T19:53:13-07:00January 15th, 2023|Tags: book review, fiction, read, reading|