My Current Interest

                Once again, I have come to the end of a mystery series so far.   This time I’m talking about the series, The Family History Mysteries .   There may be another book coming out soon, I don’t know for sure.   Until that happens, though, I have to wait to see what other adventures genealogist Sophreena McClure and her business partner Esme Sabatier are going to get into.                 Researching the family history of Senator Stanton Sawyer is a lucrative deal for Sophreena and Esme.   It could easily take their genealogy business to new heights that previously they would have only dreamed.   This is why when Senator Stanton makes the unusual request of having them look into a decades old mystery involving a fire and the death of a child, Sophreena and Esme are quick to agree.   It is not w...

                I really do have a hard time resisting a new mystery series.   When I see one that interests me, I always figure, why not give it a shot?   The worst that happens is that if I don’t like it, I return the book to the library earlier than I had planned.   So far, lately, I haven’t found too many mystery series that I’ve tried that I don’t like.   This leads me to juggling a lot of different series at the same time.   Ah, well.   I can handle it.                 My most recent mystery series is the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries .   Angie Braddock has recently moved to Ohio from Texas because she has inherited her Aunt Eleanor’s Amish quilt shop.   Despite not being Amish herself (Angie is what the Amish would call English), Angie is excited for this business adventure.   She wa...

Image provided by Acorn TV/RLJE.        For some reason, when I first saw the title Agatha Raisin , I thought I was going to watch a modern-day Miss Marple.   Or else it was going to be a present-day Agatha Christie solving mysteries.   Why I had these ideas in my head, other than the name Agatha, I am not fully sure.   The funny thing is, in many ways, despite this show not being about Miss Marple or Agatha Christie, I wasn’t too far off.   The show does take place in a small village in England where people keep turning up dead.   Then it is up to Agatha Raisin to solve the mystery as to who killed them.   That sounds pretty Miss Marple to me.   Beyond that, though, I don’t think much else is the same.     Image provided by Acorn TV/RLJE.           It has been a lifelong dream of public relations extraordinaire Agatha Raisin (Ashley Jensen) to live in...