Graham Landrum (1922–1995)

I was in search of an [a:E. L. Larkin|5424473|E. L. Larkin|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg] book at the Bookworm and didn't find one so I picked this up for a cozy mystery to read. This is the kind of book that makes me think that I could write a mystery using thinly-disguised local people as characters. Instead of casting the movie in my head with movie stars, I was picturing some of the local ladies in the roles. If the book were set here, I am absolutely positive that Dorothy Fitch Munn would have been the one to put all of the facts together and solve the murder.

In most cases I don't like books that have chapters written by different characters but, in this case, it worked and I enjoyed it.

Basically, the members of the NSDAR discover a body and realize that the death that the local sheriff has put no effort into investigating, is both a murder and solvable. Something that I liked about the book is that the author made the story fun to read without making fun of the old ladies.… (más)

I was in search of an [a:E. L. Larkin|5424473|E. L. Larkin|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg] book at the Bookworm and didn't find one so I picked this up for a cozy mystery to read. This is the kind of book that makes me think that I could write a mystery using thinly-disguised local people as characters. Instead of casting the movie in my head with movie stars, I was picturing some of the local ladies in the roles. If the book were set here, I am absolutely positive that Dorothy Fitch Munn would have been the one to put all of the facts together and solve the murder.

In most cases I don't like books that have chapters written by different characters but, in this case, it worked and I enjoyed it.

Basically, the members of the NSDAR discover a body and realize that the death that the local sheriff has put no effort into investigating, is both a murder and solvable. Something that I liked about the book is that the author made the story fun to read without making fun of the old ladies.… (más)

Ugh. The mystery itself wasn't bad, though not very complicated; the characters ranged from dumb to silly to reckless, and the way it was written with each chapter in a different character's viewpoint stretched out a simple puzzle waaaay beyond interest. Not to mention all the time spent on gossiping about various other characters (some of which was pertinent, at least vaguely, but still) and the obsession with homosexuality (was he or wasn't he? We never talked about things like that, and now it's everywhere. Oh, is he? Is she? Is...bah). Not one I'll read again, nor seek out the others in the series.… (más)