I adored this book! Sam is a great character and the secondary characters are great, too! When a man is murdered on a retirement home bus trip to Chicago, Sam and her grandmother are shocked. Sam has a few murder solves under her belt and thinks she has a shot at it, due to the ineffective police. It turns out there are some people with pretty good reasons for wanting this man dead. The mystery is solid and I appreciated the solve.

Another Maine Clambake Mystery! I was introduced to this series by a collection of Halloween themed novellas and immediately got ahold of the first book, Clammed Up. In this one Julia is giving up her apartment and moving back home. Only, oops! Turns out the woman who was going to take over the rent quit her job due to a tragic eggnog incident. Julia decides to take her home with her because it's pointless to look for a job during the holidays and things get worse from there. I really enjoy Chris and Julia's relationship. It's charming and believable. I don't want to spoil things but I feel it would be blasphemy to not mention there's a twin switch in this book.

Unfortunately, this one didn't grab me the way I wanted to. But first let's admire the adorable cover and punny title. Okay, this one started out punny for me but petered out quickly after Bloom's body was found. The townspeople seemed to be made up of horrible natterers and the mc really had no involvement in the mystery except to be nosy! The resolution is...okay. it just seemed kind of obvious. Now, as u am not an author take these complaints with a grain of salt and one of the reasons I'm being so critical is this book had so much potential.

Ooh, I had a blast with this one. Due to a bummer turn of events I read about a quarter of it in the hospital and it helped keep my mind off things. This is the fourth book in the series, which means our poor girl Tallie has stumbled on three corpses before. Also her last name is Graver and her parents run a funeral home and she divorced her high society husband and apparently society turned its back on her. Rude. So, Tallie has a small cleaning business and wants to clean the mansion of Mrs. Petrovski and I swear if this lady needs anything cleaned, it's her clock! Monstrous woman with an equally awful nephew named Preston. So after Preston sabotages Tallie she goes back to get her things and finds the body of Audra, a woman she was just starting to get to know and like. Only... It turns out that Audra may be a lying liar who lies but Tallie wants to catch the killer before they strike again. This book  was very enjoyable and I totally identified with Tallie's fe