A Holly, Jolly Murder: A Claire Malloy Mystery | 
pickNot chockfull of Yuletide cheer! It was rather unsettling and darker than I expected. This book wouldn‘t encourage me to read others in the series. Fortunately, I am a devoted fan of Joan Hess‘ Claire Malloy - an intrepid bookseller with a quick wit and sharp sense of humor, so I still overall enjoyed it.
When Peter pokes fun at Claire‘s predictability, she tries to be unpredictable by accepting a unique invitation ⬇️
mabell - to observe a small, mismatched group of druids & Wicca celebrate the Winter Solstice. One of the leaders is inexplicably late… (edited) 1y
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Librarybelle This is a series I‘ve yet to read! 1y
mabell @Librarybelle It tends toward the wacky 😄 My favorite is Mummy Dearest - a terrific mystery, and all the better because it takes place in Egypt and I love ancient Egyptian history! 1y
Clwojick This one looks fun! ❤️ 1y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Also, if you like Egypt and mysteries... have you read the Amelia Peabody series? 1y
mabell @Clwojick I liked it - but not good bedtime reading 🤣 1y
mabell @TheAromaofBooks Yes, but just the first one! It was excellent. Even though I have almost all of them on my shelves 🙄, I haven‘t read further. It‘s one of those series I just don‘t think about getting to! 1y
CarolynM @mabell I encourage you to get Amelia off the shelf & start reading. They get better & better for quite a while before tailing off. Joan Hess was a close friend of Elizabeth Peters & I believe they shared a similar sense of humour. JH completed the Amelia book that EP was working on when she died. I‘ve never gotten around to JH‘s books, so I‘m going to take my own advice & get on to it, starting with Mummy Dearest since you‘re recommending it 😆 1y
TheAromaofBooks I'm with @CarolynM - the Amelia books are just delightful. Like all long series, there are some that are better than others, but overall I just love the characters so much. She actually has characters age and grow throughout, and the setting is so realistic that after I finished that series, I was reading a nonfiction book about Egyptian archeology and kept half-expecting their names to crop up 😂 (edited) 1y
mabell @CarolynM I knew that their names both appeared on one of the last books - makes sense it was a posthumous completion. They obviously had a shared love of Egyptology! I‘m sure I have the second one in the Amelia Peabody, so I‘ll pull it out to remind me to get to it soon! Mummy Dearest is fairly late in the series, but I don‘t think it would be a problem to start there. Plus it‘s my favorite 🤷♀️😆 1y
mabell @TheAromaofBooks That‘s high praise! I know I would enjoy them too! Looking back, I think the reason I didn‘t jump right into the next one was that I was on the edge on my seat for most of Crocodile on the Sandbank! In case the Curse of the Pharaohs was equally suspenseful/intense (for me), I had to be ready 🤣 1y
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