Title: A Dash of Murder
Author: Pearl Parsons
Date: 2025
Quote: "The road sign ahead...a battered wooden post with three arrows pointing in different directions... simply sat there...pointing left."
So Sylvia turns left. As it turns out, the country inn she's inherited is located in a different town than the one she reaches by turning left; she should have followed a different arrow. As a guest at someone else's inn, she's instantly drawn into a circle of quiet friendliness and warmth, then as suddenly--when the electricity goes out--flung into a murder mystery. Well, it's not first-degree murder, but one of the nice people in the town she's visiting does unthinkingly kill another one. And he injures the dog that has befriended Sylvia.
A lot of thought went into this cozy mystery. Not just lining up the clues, but thinking about the people (including the dog) and their lives and feelings. In the series of longer mysteries she's plotting, Parsons wants readers to know, she intends to think about the people as if she were Dorothy Sayers.
If Dorothy Sayers' are just about the only murder mysteries you like, you'll probably want the series that follow this mini-book.
No comments:
Post a Comment