October 2016 Book Report

Agree to Disagree (2015) by Emily Thomas

Blue Hills Library series. There are plans for a big-box store to locate in Blue Hill. The town quickly becomes divided between the ones wanting the store, and the ones who are dead-set against it. Feelings run very high and relationships suffer. The pastor even feels compelled to speak about this division and how the people need to find common ground again. At the end of the book, the store chooses another city for their location and the people of Blue Hill have to start forgiving each other.

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Tea Rose (2016) by Erin Keeley Marshall

Tearoom Mysteries. Elaine and Jan’s helper, Rose, discovers her own death certificate when going through her mother’s papers after her mother dies. She also discovers that her mother was not her birth mother. This book had a lot of history pertaining to the Berlin Wall and some of the things that went on in that time. Very interesting story, and marvelous history lesson as well.

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P. Moran, Operative (1947) by Percival Wilde

This was a real corker. Pete Moran is the world’s worst detective, but things always seem to go right in the end and he gets the credit. You get a real flavor of the times along with the slang. And nobody dies!!

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A Case for Mr. Crook (1952) by Anthony Gilbert

Awesome book! Funny as all get-out. The author was actually a woman (Lucy Beatrice Malleson) who wrote under several different names. She wrote many books about the lawyer/detective Arthur G. Crook and they are real gems. In this one, the despicable Violet is killed, Miss Pinnegar is kidnapped and Mr. Crook solves it all in his unique way.

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Hungry Hill (1943) By Daphne du Maurier

Boy, was this book a downer!! Ms. du Maurier was a great writer, and this was no exception, but wow! NO ONE WAS HAPPY. The book takes place in Ireland 1820 to 1920 and is mainly about the feud between the wealthy Brodrick family and the vengeful Donovan family. Great turmoil, heartbreak, what-have-you. Then the book ends. Period.