Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey - 18 yo Chloe arrives home unexpectedly to find lots of blood and a missing mother. Maeve Kerrigan and her team find some of the neighbors odd and turn their attention to them. The very religious Norrises seem very tense but they accuse William Turner who has already beat an accusation of a knife attack. So many twists and turns, this really kept me interested. It would have been perfect if not for the cliched "Christians".
4 stars
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The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan - the ladies of Chilbury find they can be more than they thought when WWII empties their village of men and they must rely on themselves. Told in a series of letters and journals. It was interesting to watch the women change as the book went on.
3.5 stars
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan - Lydia leads a carefully constructed cautious life as a clerk in a bookstore. But when one of her favorite patrons commits suicide in the store things begin to fall apart. In the books he has left to her she discovers clues that lead her to her estranged father and a horrific night from her childhood. What I considered unnecessary crude language kept this from being a 5 star book.
4.5 stars
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Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf - an accident has left nurse Amelia Winn deaf. She doesn't handle the change well, losing her husband, stepdaughter, job, and friends to alcohol. She is just getting her life back together when she discovers the body of an old friend along the river where she is paddle boarding. She feels compelled to discover the murderer, putting herself and her service dog, Stitch, in danger. It was the element of deafness (and Stitch) that kept this mystery compelling to me. I didn't really care for Amelia, she jumped to conclusions rather quickly. The author is hearing impaired herself.
4 stars
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The Complete Father Brown Mysteries by G.K.Chesterton - 24 short stories that I read over a few months as they were the perfect length for "waiting". I found some of them so old fashioned that I just didn't get them. And it was very hard to get past racial caricatures of the times. I only found a few of the stories enjoyable.
2 stars
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