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A Most Curious Murder: A Little Library Mystery by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
5.0
Below is my review from 2018 and it still stands. Even better the second time listening.
I can definitely recommend this book, series and author.
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I have been a fan of Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli since reading DEAD DANCING WOMEN. It's a unique suspense mystery and I have looked forward to reading more of the series. Then I read a review about this Little Library Mystery series and had to add it to my WWBL too. I found it on Simply Audio and kept my fingers crossed it would be moved up the wishlist soon. Got my wish last week and it immediately went into the CD player in Sebastian.
It took me a chapter or two to get into the story. It is not the typical amateur sleuth and that is just fine. I know I like the author and kept listening. And I am very glad I did.
The dialogue and interactions were a bit jarring, but it honestly felt realistic once I got used to the flow.
The main character, Jenny Weston, has bad luck with men and she's only had two really in her life. She has let if affect her life choices. She's home to lick her wounds after her divorce and has issues with pretty much everything. Her little sister Lisa the Perfect, her mom, the unsolved hit and run death of her father and the next door neighbor, Zoe Zola, who has a passion for fairy gardens and quoting from Alice in Wonderland.
This is what caused some irritation but not so much that I stopped listening. Because who doesn't have issues with the little sister, the mom, the neighbor, and life in general. I was intrigued. I could see Jenny working through her issues and being a good person.
Then there's the mystery. There's a murdered man in Zoe's garden and she is the prime suspect. And Jenny feels compelled to find out what's going on. She knows that for all that Zoe is quirky, she is not a murderer. Then another murder and all things point to Zoe again.
The prize, though, what I loved the most is the little library that Jenny's mom Dora has in front of her house. The book starts with Jenny cleaning up the aftermath after some crappe-weasel has destroyed the little library and the books inside are barely salvageable. Oddly, this is what feels like is Jenny's road to recovery. She's been worried how to tell her mom that she's divorced, but now how she is going to tell her mom about this destruction?
Plots and subplots, self-discovery, making new friends in the town she grew up in. Can someone go home again? I think so, but it might be a bit different and you have to go with the flow.
I am really looking forward to the rest of this series.
I can definitely recommend this book, this series and this author.
I can definitely recommend this book, series and author.
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I have been a fan of Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli since reading DEAD DANCING WOMEN. It's a unique suspense mystery and I have looked forward to reading more of the series. Then I read a review about this Little Library Mystery series and had to add it to my WWBL too. I found it on Simply Audio and kept my fingers crossed it would be moved up the wishlist soon. Got my wish last week and it immediately went into the CD player in Sebastian.
It took me a chapter or two to get into the story. It is not the typical amateur sleuth and that is just fine. I know I like the author and kept listening. And I am very glad I did.
The dialogue and interactions were a bit jarring, but it honestly felt realistic once I got used to the flow.
The main character, Jenny Weston, has bad luck with men and she's only had two really in her life. She has let if affect her life choices. She's home to lick her wounds after her divorce and has issues with pretty much everything. Her little sister Lisa the Perfect, her mom, the unsolved hit and run death of her father and the next door neighbor, Zoe Zola, who has a passion for fairy gardens and quoting from Alice in Wonderland.
This is what caused some irritation but not so much that I stopped listening. Because who doesn't have issues with the little sister, the mom, the neighbor, and life in general. I was intrigued. I could see Jenny working through her issues and being a good person.
Then there's the mystery. There's a murdered man in Zoe's garden and she is the prime suspect. And Jenny feels compelled to find out what's going on. She knows that for all that Zoe is quirky, she is not a murderer. Then another murder and all things point to Zoe again.
The prize, though, what I loved the most is the little library that Jenny's mom Dora has in front of her house. The book starts with Jenny cleaning up the aftermath after some crappe-weasel has destroyed the little library and the books inside are barely salvageable. Oddly, this is what feels like is Jenny's road to recovery. She's been worried how to tell her mom that she's divorced, but now how she is going to tell her mom about this destruction?
Plots and subplots, self-discovery, making new friends in the town she grew up in. Can someone go home again? I think so, but it might be a bit different and you have to go with the flow.
I am really looking forward to the rest of this series.
I can definitely recommend this book, this series and this author.