Summer blahs, need to step it up
Ok, I’ve got the summer blahs, how can it be 97 degrees already. Don’t want to blog, have started about 20 books and not finished any. So I decided to go back to the satisfaction of a cozy read.
Breaking out of my doldrums I picked up a Simon Brett. One really good thing about Mr Brett, he publishes a lot. I like series authors, I like character driven mysteries, I like cozy reads and he’s good at what he does. Fethering Mysteries, number 11, The Shooting in the Shop was my book du jour this weekend.
The timeline is through the Christmas holidays, when our two sleuths Carole, a grumpy divorcee and her friend Jude, who is all things bohemian and New Age, look to solve a murder. Lots of characters, some plucked right from our tabloid headlines. There’s the socializing/womanizing ex-rock star, gone music business mogul, his “aristocratic” mom, who isn’t quite as aristocratic as she claims, Jude’s friend Lola Le Bonnier, stepmother to the soon to be deceased Polly Le Bonnier and owner of the Gallimaufry, pretensious gift store and site of the murder. We’ve got our aging “beach bum” who is much more than he appears and the dogwalking Mafia.
Splendid combinations for a murderous holiday. This is the first Fethering mystery for me, but I’ve always enjoyed Brett’s other series, with actor and sleuth, Charles Paris. Her’e a list of all the Brett books, because you can’t read just one.
Here’s a second opinion on the book by Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise.
And then I just found out he’s written a new series, Blotto and Twinks and we (the library) have this title. It looks like fun and that’s what summer reading is definitely all about.
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It’s always a good idea to read books and stories set during the Christmas holidays when the weather outside is frightening.Frighteningly hot, that is!!