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Tony Hillerman’s “The Blessing Way”
In July 2007, we shifted our attention to an ethnic mystery. This time, we read Tony Hillerman’s Native American mystery, The Blessing Way. When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mouth full of sand at a crime scene seemingly without tracks or clues, he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer. And what he must stalk is the Wolf-Witch along a chilling trail between mysticism and murder.
This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on July 26, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!
Dick Francis’ “Blood Sport”
May 2007 was a “classic mystery” month, this time with the first Brother Cadfael novel by Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones. The ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wants to acquire Saint Winifred’s sacred remains for his Benedictine order. And when the ensuing controversy leads to murder, Brother Cadfael investigates.
This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on May 31, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!
Ellis Peters’ “A Morbid Taste for Bones
May 2007 was a “classic mystery” month, this time with the first Brother Cadfael novel by Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones. The ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wants to acquire Saint Winifred’s sacred remains for his Benedictine order. And when the ensuing controversy leads to murder, Brother Cadfael investigates.
This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on May 31, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!
Joan Hess’ “The Goodbye Body”
We return to a contemporary author in April, with the latest in Joan Hess’ popular “Claire Malloy” series, The Goodbye Body. Claire Malloy runs a bookstore in the normally quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas – an enterprise that provides a verging-on-meager living for her and her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter, Caron. When emergency work forces Claire and Caron to abandon their apartment for a few weeks, they are in no financial position to put themselves up in style, and so Claire is thrilled to accept a customer’s offer to let them stay at her well-stocked, well-equipped, palatial home while she is traveling. Of course, nothing is ever that easy. No sooner do Claire and Caron ensconce themselves than disquieting events start to occur: Dubious people show up looking for the “traveling” owner of the house; the owner herself turns out not to be who she claimed and is now seemingly on the run; and a dead body keeps turning up – and subsequently disappearing – around the grounds of the house. Claire is determined, for once, to stay out of the mysterious doings, but her hand is finally forced when the disappearing body turns out to be only the first corpse to turn up.
This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on April 26, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!
Mary Roberts Rinehart’s “The Circular Staircase”
Our selection for March 2007 was the Mary Roberts Rinehart classic, The Circular Staircase.
A middle-aged spinster rents a country house for the summer and soon finds herself plunged into a nasty scenario of bank defaults, stolen securities and murder. An entertaining blend of intrigue, villainy and heart-pounding suspense for crime fiction buffs and lovers of great mystery classics.
This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on March 29, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!