Libraries and librarians have become a popular setting and profession for cozies and this series features a very smart library director, Amy Weber, whose research skills and hometown girl cred gives her an edge. Her best friend, also a librarian, is running for mayor and her campaign runs into a big problem when a skeleton is discovered at her grandparents’ farm.
What makes this mystery so interesting to me was that most of the suspects, and the victim, were former hippies who lived at the farm in the 1960’s when it was a commune. I remember the tail end of the sixties so reading this was a bit like a re-visiting the past though I never lived on a commune!
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The latest book is my favorite in the Victoria Square Mystery series which features the spunky and determined entrepreneur Katie Bonner who runs an indoor crafts market, sort of like Etsy but in a brick and mortar. She is also manager and owner of a tea room, is the organizer for the local Merchants Association and is dating her landlord. So she has her hands full but this a cozy mystery so it’s not too long before there is a fatal accident in which she is a witness and a victim.