Cozy Reading
I'm back to cozy reading, after a long hiatus, and after finding a delightful mystery involving cupcakes and death!
Dying for Devil's Food by Jenn McKinlay is the 11th in the series with cupcake maker Melanie Cooper and her friend and business partner Angie. Both get involved in solving murders and this book is no exception. The problem is that the dead person in this novel is found with one of Melanie's cupcakes in her hand!
As for rural Texas,
In The Gillespie County Fair by Marc Hess, two intermarried pioneer families in a small Texas town lock horns over the sale of a homestead and just about destroy themselves.
In historical mysteries,
Murder on Trinity Place by Victoria Thompson is the 22nd in the Gaslight mystery series, set in Victorian-era New York. Frank and Sarah Malloy solve another murder in this historical novel.
New from the library,
The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin is mesmerizing in the detail, description of an era, and the characterization of the protagonist, a court dancer who would become famous in the Joseon Court of old Korea, 1891. I am enjoying this one very much.
Finished reading
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, published November 2018 by Minotaur Books, is a detailed police procedural set outside Tokyo.
Detective Kaga gets involved in the lives of the people he is investigating while linking clues in a case just as someone would braid a rope out of single threads. We get to know several shop owners in a traditional shopping district, their lives and their crafts and goods, all during Kaga's investigation into a recent death. Any of the threads he picks up along the way could lead to the murderer of a divorced woman living in the area, and a few do. The ending is not predictable, nor is the unique personality and methods of the detective. I gave this library book five stars.
What books are you reading this week?
Memes: The Sunday Post hosted by The Caffeinated Bookreviewer, Stacking the Shelves, and It's Monday, What Are You Reading? by Book Date., and Mailbox Monday.
