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Way behind on my reading, especially for #hashtagbrigade. I thought I‘d get caught up tonight, but my refrigerator had other ideas. The freezer failed so I‘m making soup to use things that were too thawed (and borrowing space in a friend‘s freezer until mine is fixed.) And baking pumpkin bread with the last of the pumpkin purée from last fall. It‘s 92 degrees outside and my house smells like November. ?

I finished reading this last week and I'm still not sure what I think about it. The characterization of the prime players in the story was excellent. Peri, Skip and Benny were very well positioned. However, the plot ending, especially the denouement - who did the murders and why - fell completely flat. So did the conclusion about why the hands were missing from the corpse, which had NOTHING to do with the deaths!! So why put it in? Meh. ⭐⭐⭐ 🤪