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Dick Francis’ “Blood Sport”

bloodsportJust Desserts Logo 225May 2007 was a “classic mystery” month, this time with the first Brother Cadfael novel by Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones. The ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wants to acquire Saint Winifred’s sacred remains for his Benedictine order. And when the ensuing controversy leads to murder, Brother Cadfael investigates.

This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on May 31, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!

Ellis Peters’ “A Morbid Taste for Bones

morbidtasteforbonesJust Desserts Logo 225May 2007 was a “classic mystery” month, this time with the first Brother Cadfael novel by Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones. The ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wants to acquire Saint Winifred’s sacred remains for his Benedictine order. And when the ensuing controversy leads to murder, Brother Cadfael investigates.

This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on May 31, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!

Joan Hess’ “The Goodbye Body”

goodbyebodyJust Desserts Logo 225We return to a contemporary author in April, with the latest in Joan Hess’ popular “Claire Malloy” series, The Goodbye Body. Claire Malloy runs a bookstore in the normally quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas – an enterprise that provides a verging-on-meager living for her and her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter, Caron. When emergency work forces Claire and Caron to abandon their apartment for a few weeks, they are in no financial position to put themselves up in style, and so Claire is thrilled to accept a customer’s offer to let them stay at her well-stocked, well-equipped, palatial home while she is traveling. Of course, nothing is ever that easy. No sooner do Claire and Caron ensconce themselves than disquieting events start to occur: Dubious people show up looking for the “traveling” owner of the house; the owner herself turns out not to be who she claimed and is now seemingly on the run; and a dead body keeps turning up – and subsequently disappearing – around the grounds of the house. Claire is determined, for once, to stay out of the mysterious doings, but her hand is finally forced when the disappearing body turns out to be only the first corpse to turn up.

This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on April 26, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!

Mary Roberts Rinehart’s “The Circular Staircase”

circularstaircaseJust Desserts Logo 225Our selection for March 2007 was the Mary Roberts Rinehart classic, The Circular Staircase.

A middle-aged spinster rents a country house for the summer and soon finds herself plunged into a nasty scenario of bank defaults, stolen securities and murder. An entertaining blend of intrigue, villainy and heart-pounding suspense for crime fiction buffs and lovers of great mystery classics.

This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on March 29, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!

David Wiltse’s Heartland

heartlandJust Desserts Logo 225For February 2007, we returned stateside, with a murder mystery set right here at home!

Nebraska author David Wiltse’s mystery, Heartland, is set in Falls City, NE. Here’s the book blurb: Falls City, Nebraska. Just a scratch on the Great Plains. To Billy Tree, it’s home-the last refuge for the ex-Secret Service agent scarred in body and soul by an unforgettable tragedy. But he’s trading one for another. For the quiet burg of his youth has changed over the years. Darkness has taken hold. And now, the killing secrets and terrible lies buried beneath the tranquil surface of Falls City are ready to erupt…. Where it begins is with a shocking sniper attack at the local high school. No motive. No clues. Just two innocent teachers left dead, and a third injured. A woman with secrets of her own, she shares a place in Billy’s heart, his past, and his fears, when a second murder paralyzes the town. Urged by the sheriff to help in the investigation, Billy can’t refuse. Even if it means seeing old friends in a terrifying new light, and exposing himself to the insidious rage of a mysterious killer…. It all ends in the shattering silence of an isolated silo. Here blood will tell. The secrets of Falls City will unfold. And the truth could cost Billy more than he’d ever imagined….

This title was discussed at the Just Desserts meeting on February 22, 2007. We encourage you to share your own thoughts and opinions about this book in a reply comment to this blog post, below!