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Brandy & Bullets: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain

               Finally!   It has taken four books, but I am now starting to hear Angela Lansbury’s voice when I read this series .   It’s not all the time.   Just lines here and there where I can hear Ms. Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher say the words on the page.                 Now, with that starting to get in order, I am curious as to why the story says Mrs. Fletcher doesn’t have any teaching experience.   In the TV show she was a teacher for years.   Despite the book series growing, there are definitely still some inconsistencies from the show.                 For years the town of Cabot Cove has been allowed to use the Worrell Mansion as a conference center and park.   That may all change with the most recent heir of the mansion deciding to sell the property to a group who wants to turn it into an art retreat center.   People will be able to go to the center to work on their art and enjoy the grounds.   The art can be writing, music, or painting, amongst other types of art for

Endeavour

              Let me start out by saying I have never liked Inspector Morse .   At all.   Every time I have tried to watch it, Morse put me on edge.   He was always leering at one woman or another, giving me the creeps.   That is why I could never figure out why he was mentioned with so much love in the show Lewis .   It’s also why, when I saw the same behavior in Endeavour (a show about a young Morse), I decided I wasn’t going to watch that show either.   Lewis was going to be it for me.                 Then something happened.   Episodes of Endeavour started airing once a week late at night.   Since it was always after another show I watched (most likely The Doctor Blake Mysteries ), I ended up seeing bits and pieces before falling asleep.   But it wasn’t until I saw part of an episode with David Oakes that I started to think about watching the series as a whole.   It still took me awhile, but eventually I decided to give the show a try.              Detective Constable En

Death of Riley: A Molly Murphy Mystery by Rhys Bowen

                Here’s something I don’t understand.   You find out the person you are dating has a fiancée.   Then, when you confront the person about this other woman, they stand there, unable to figure out why you’re upset.   Nor can they understand why you no longer want anything to do with them, no matter what their explanation about the situation may be.   You have a fiancée, we are over.   I really don’t think this is a hard concept to understand.   For Captain Daniel Sullivan, apparently it is.                 Now that Molly Murphy has been in America for a little while and gotten used to life here, she is working really hard on finding a steady job to support herself.   Everything she tries doesn’t quite work out, though.   Her personality and nature do not work well with being a servant.   Working with fish she is not at all enthusiastic about.   No, what Molly really wants to do is become a private investigator.   She wants to look for people whose relatives across the

Pouncing on Murder: A Bookmobile Cat Mystery by Laurie Cass

                   Finally!   I was starting to wonder if Minnie was ever going to figure out her relationship with Tucker.   It still took most of the book, but she finally did.                 Librarian Minnie Hamilton is enjoying the change of weather in her small Michigan town, but it also means the library’s first annual book fair is coming up.   The fair is a lot of work, and despite her boss telling her to delegate, Minnie has a hard time asking other people to help.   She would much rather have her life be as it usually is.   Doing her job as normal, and driving the library’s bookmobile.                 Driving the bookmobile has become a great way for Minnie to get to know people.   One of those people is Henry Gill, a curmudgeon who has quiet ways to show when he has accepted someone into his life.   With Minnie, he brought her maple syrup.   This small, but special relationship Minnie and Henry have is why she finds it so painful when Henry is killed by a fallen tree