Murder in Persimmon Bluff by Jody Chaffin

November 5, 2026 By Leave a Comment


Murder in Persimmon Bluff by Jody Chaffin
A Table Rock Lake Word Search Mystery, Book 1
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Contemporary
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

They stopped speaking in 1980. Forty-eight word searches to the truth.

Earl Halstead and Joe Sowder came home from Vietnam like brothers and built most of this end of Table Rock Lake with one truck between them. In December of 1980 they divided the company down the middle and stopped speaking. Neither man ever said why. Their families have bid against each other ever since.

Now Marla Sowder, the engineer who runs the Sowder half, has been found dead in a Halstead driveway on a Friday night, and the county has already closed the case. Retired biology teacher Eleanor “Nell” Ashworth has been in Persimmon Bluff six weeks. Nobody here tells her anything.

But this time, the detective is you.

Read the chapters. Solve the puzzles. Track the clues. Each chapter hands you a scene and a word search, and the leftover letters spell out what the scene would not — a suspect cleared, a motive ruled out, a place crossed off. Across forty-eight puzzles you will gather everything you need to name the killer, the motive, the means, and the place, and you will get there the same way Nell does.

Six suspects. Two families with nothing to say. A verdict only you can reach.

Autumn is the perfect time of year to solve a murder.

I continue to be impressed with the author’s understanding of both the positive and negative aspects of living in a small town. The scenes that explored how characters maintained relationships with each other over the decades, especially with people they didn’t like but needed to see regularly for a variety of reasons, were among my favorite ones.

There were some pacing issues in the beginning that prevented me from diving as deeply into this book as I was hoping to do so. It took me a while to cozy up to the characters and become emotionally invested in solving the murder. This is something I’m saying as a reader who enjoyed the author’s previous Larkspur Hollow Garden Mystery books and was quite excited to see what he’d written next. My fingers are crossed that the future instalments in this new series will have smoother pacing as the word search aspect of each instalment is unique and quite a bit of fun to participate in.

The murder itself was creative and interesting. I liked the way it was folded into the patterns of everyday life in Persimmon Bluff and thought the characters’ reactions to that moment were as reasonable as they were illuminative of their personalities. Based on this introduced to these characters and their community, I am definitely interested in visiting them again through the power of the written word in the near future.

Murder in Persimmon Bluff piqued my interest in these new adventures.

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Izzy’s Dilemma by Robert Pais

October 28, 2026 By Leave a Comment


Izzy’s Dilemma by Robert Pais
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Middle Grade (8 – 12 y.o.), Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Contemporary
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

What If The Easiest Way To Belong Meant Changing Who You Are?

On the planet Mirron, your eye color determines your place in society.

Topaz are at the top. Emeralds and Sapphires occupy the middle. And Pearls are at the bottom.

Twelve-year-old Izzy Ashford is a Pearl.

Growing up in the wealthy Topaz community of Covington with her loving adoptive parents, Izzy has never thought her eye color should matter. But when bullying and prejudice begin to make her feel like an outsider, she starts to see Mirron’s color system in a very different way.

Then, during a family vacation, a mysterious stranger named Sam makes Izzy an extraordinary offer.

He can change her Pearl eyes to Topaz.

Permanently!

Suddenly, Izzy has a chance to become the person of interest Mirron’s society would accept without question. BUT there is a price.

And Izzy has only one summer to decide whether that’s a price worth paying.

At River Valley Camp, Izzy meets new friends, encounters people from every level of Mirron’s society, and begins to discover that the world she thought she understood may be far more complicated than it seems.

As secrets from the past begin to surface and her choices become harder, Izzy is forced to confront a question that goes far beyond the color of her eyes:

How much of yourself should you change just to be accepted?

Izzy must make a choice.

Change her eyes and finally fit in – or stay true to herself and discover what it really means to belong.

Differences should be celebrated.

One of the reasons why I like reading middle grade fiction so much is that the preteen years are often when kids begin to develop separate identities from their families. Some of the best examples of this genre in my opinion are the ones that explore what this separation means for their characters and give glimpses of the adults they will become in the future, both of which this story did incredibly well. Due to Izzy’s eye color, her adoption could never have been a secret to begin with, but now that she was a preteen the meaning of that difference began to impact her in ways that she had not previously thought about in as much detail. While she still had a lot of maturing to do, I thought the protagonist was already developing into a kind and compassionate young woman who was going to make her world a much better place. Bravo for that!

Judy and Tom’s parenting decisions about how and where they raised Izzy puzzled me. Obviously, this book was intended to be a metaphor for the racism in our own world, but I couldn’t understand why a couple would adopt a child they knew was going to face a lifetime of prejudice and then raise her in such a close-minded community when there were more diverse and welcoming neighbourhoods easily available to them. This was something that could have included some powerful messages about what it truly means to be an ally had more time been spent exploring the difference between what these characters said and how they actually chose to live their lives. As an adult reader, I can make those inferences easily, but I think the intended middle grade audience would have benefited from much deeper discussions on this topic due to how important it is both on Izzy’s world and in our own.

I appreciated how much time was spent exploring how it feels to be part of a minority group. While some negative interactions can definitely be overt and blatantly fueled by prejudice, what can be just as difficult to cope with over the longterm are the little moments where someone says something that could be interpreted in multiple ways or where a group gives the subtle impression that someone is not fully welcomed there. This can be a difficult topic to discuss with kids this age who may or may not have personal experience with it, so I’m glad the author gave so many examples of what these subtle slights can look like. Had the entire book been written this way, I would have happily given it a much higher rating.

Izzy’s Dilemma was thought provoking.

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The Protocol of Indifference – A Patient’s Memoir from a Post-Soviet Healthcare System by Yury Hrynko

October 21, 2026 By 1 Comment


The Protocol of Indifference – A Patient’s Memoir from a Post-Soviet Healthcare System by Yury Hrynko
Publisher: Self-published
Genre: Non-Fiction, Contemporary
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

A bilateral tonsillectomy was supposed to be a step toward better health. Instead, Yury Hrynko woke up in intensive care unable to see, unable to speak, and fighting for every breath.

After regaining consciousness, he found himself facing a terrifying reality: unbearable pain, the sudden loss of his vision, the inability to communicate, and a desperate struggle to survive.

The Protocol of Indifference is a medical memoir about survival, resilience, and the human cost of traumatic complications after a medical procedure. Told through the voices of Yury and those closest to him—including his wife and parents—this book follows one family’s journey through a year of uncertainty, fear, determination, and hope.

Following complications that occurred during and after the procedure, Yury faced a cascade of life-changing consequences: a loss of vision that gradually returned over time, nerve damage, loss of his voice, severe neurological complications, and a dangerous infection that threatened his recovery. For months, he had to relearn basic abilities, including speaking, while adapting to a body and life that had suddenly changed.

Yet the greatest challenge was not only physical recovery—it was being heard when his condition was repeatedly underestimated.

From the frightening moments immediately after the procedure, to the days when his symptoms were dismissed, and finally to the doctor who recognized the seriousness of his condition and called for emergency help, this memoir presents a firsthand account of a patient’s struggle to survive, recover, and reclaim his life.

Set within a post-Soviet healthcare system, The Protocol of Indifference is not a story about blaming individuals. It is a story about human vulnerability, family support, resilience, and the importance of compassion in medicine.

Medical mistreatment is never acceptable.

I was flabbergasted by Mr. Hrynko’s experiences with the medical community both as a child when he had his adenoids and part of his tonsils removed without the use of any anesthesia as well as how he was treated as an adult after he had multiple infections of his remaining tonsils and was advised to have a tonsillectomy for health reasons. Untreated pain can be quite traumatic, especially when it’s this severe, and he shared his memories of these surgeries openly and in great detail.

Some of the most memorable portions of this book for me were the ones that explored how people who have disabilities, chronic illnesses, or other medical conditions can struggle to convince the doctors and nurses who are treating them to take their feedback seriously. This is unfortunately far more common than the general public may think it is, and it can cause long delays in treatment and diagnoses that aren’t always accurate. What made this particular case even worse is that the author’s physical difficulties with talking, eating, drinking fluids, and swallowing among a long list of other problems were caused by the same surgery that was supposed to cure him!

What ultimately encouraged me to give this a full five-star rating were the sections written by the author’s wife and parents. Family support is so important for people who are going through health issues, but not everyone necessarily thinks to ask the patient’s support system how they’re feeling during those moments. I loved learning how everyone worked together to make the best of a terrible situation, especially when it came to the soups they made and the daily visits they arranged. Little things like these can be so meaningful and life-saving, especially in a country where a hospital has such limited resources.

The Protocol of Indifference kept me perched on the edge of my seat from the first sentence to the last one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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Elvis – Diary of a King by Steven Donahue

October 16, 2026 By Leave a Comment


Elvis – Diary of a King by Steven Donahue
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Historical
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

Elvis is back!

The King of Rock and Roll returns in this speculative novel about the life of Elvis Presley after faking his death in 1977.

Told in a diary form, Elvis recalls the events in his “new” life after relocating to a small Pennsylvania town as part of a Witness Protection Program. Taking the name Jessie Palmer, the music legend settles into a quiet life and befriends 10-year-old Luke Rickter and his family, who live across the street from him. However, that tranquility is tested when Luke’s teenage sister goes missing, and Jessie is pulled into the investigation.

Jessie and the local police department try to solve the mystery of the missing girl and bring those responsible to justice. Along the way, Jessie tries to fit in with his new community, while adjusting to life outside of the spotlight. Jessie copes with the loss of his family and friends, and the challenges of being an outsider in a small town. He also struggles to keep his true identity a secret. If the wrong people found out he was still alive, it would jeopardize the safety of those he loves.

It’s never too late to have a second chance in life.

This genuinely felt like something set in the 1970s, from the prejudice that certain characters unfortunately had to deal with to the social mores of the time that Elvis had a wide variety of opinions about. Some of my favorite scenes were the ones that showed how this character’s early life experiences shaped the man he had become in both positive and negative ways. He was not a perfect person by any means, but he was a genuinely good individual who was doing his best to atone for past mistakes and treat others with the kindness and respect his mother always expected from him.

I would have loved to see more character development, particularly when it came to the main characters. It would be difficult for me to describe who they were as people because the narrator didn’t really go into detail on that subject. As interested as I was in the premise itself, there simply wasn’t as much attention paid to exploring the personalities and growth of the characters as I needed in order to feel comfortable giving this a higher rating.

The speculative and mystery genres were blended beautifully together here. While the latter definitely played a much larger role in the plot, they were both important in order to understand how Elvis Presley survived his final days as a famous musician before the first chapter of this book began. I can’t go into detail about that without sharing spoilers, but I will say that it was satisfying to slowly learn more and more about why Elvis made the transition from being a famous musician to living a quiet life in obscurity and what he did with his time after that.

Elvis – Diary of a King was creative.

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The Bruised Bud by Jody Chaffin

October 12, 2026 By Leave a Comment


The Bruised Bud by Jody Chaffin
A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery, Book 6
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Contemporary
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

Two hundred and fifty years of history. Twenty minutes nobody can account for.
Larkspur Hollow has been waiting a long time for this spring. The village turns two hundred and fifty years old, and the Garden Club has poured everything it has into an anniversary Flower Show worth the number.

Then Margot Hartwell — the last of the Hartwells, the woman whose money was quietly remaking the valley — walks out to hundreds of people on the green, says something no two witnesses will ever agree on, and dies on the grass in front of all of them.

Six people had a reason. Only one had the twenty minutes.

Retired schoolteacher, master gardener, and reluctant detective Nell Ashworth has worked five of these now. She has never had one where the whole village was watching and nobody saw a thing.

Feelings aren’t facts, right?

Some of my favorite passages were the ones that showed how Larkpur Hollow had grown as a community since it was first introduced in The Buried Bloom. This included everything from buildings that had recently been upgraded to new people who had moved into this area and so much more. While all of the books in this series do work perfectly well as standalone stories, I’d recommend reading them in publication order because of how much I enjoyed not only getting to know the characters but also reaching this point in their lives where the events of the past coalesce together to make their permanent mark on this town. It was satisfying to nod along and reminisce a little as I compared the beginning to what I assume is the final instalment.

It would have been helpful to have more development of the mystery itself. As much as I enjoyed the subplots, the main storyline felt a little underwhelming to me due to the murderer’s motivation for their crime and what happened to them after they were discovered. This is something I’m saying as a reader who had a good time with this series in general and was hoping for a little bit more conflict before saying goodbye to the characters.

I liked what this book had to say about why some people resist change and why that resistance doesn’t always have the effect one might hope it will. Change isn’t always a good thing, of course, but it tends to happen whether or not a community feels ready for it. The philosophical trend of these portions suited the storyline well, especially as the murder investigation deepened and characters began sharing some of the most important clues about what happened.

The Bruised Bud was thoughtful.

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The Borrowed Bouquet by Jody Chaffin

October 6, 2026 By Leave a Comment


The Borrowed Bouquet by Jody Chaffin
A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery, Book 5
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Holiday, Contemporary
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

A bouquet nobody sent. Forty-eight puzzles to the truth.

All week, the Larkspur Hollow Garden Club has been selling Valentine’s parcels — a bouquet and a card to every house in the valley — to save a grand old Vermont house from falling down. On the night of the benefit, quiet, kind Winnie Talbot receives the most beautiful flowers anyone has ever sent her, and a card asking her to meet.

By morning she has been pulled from Larkspur Creek. The whole Hollow agrees she slipped on the ice. Retired schoolteacher Eleanor “Nell” Ashworth does not.

And nobody can say who sent those flowers. There is no order form, no payment, and no shop in the county that could have grown a rose like that in February.

But this time, the detective is you.

Each chapter hands you a scene and a word search. Solve the puzzle, and the leftover letters reveal a hidden clue — a suspect cleared, a motive exposed, a secret the Hollow would rather keep buried. Track them across forty-eight puzzles and you’ll be ready to name the killer, the motive, the weapon, and the place before Nell does.

Six suspects. One bouquet nobody can account for. A verdict only you can reach.

Valentine’s Day is a terrible time to be alone.

I’m thrilled to finally be able to give a five star rating to one of the Larkspur Hollow Garden Club mysteries. Including love in this tale was what ultimately propelled me into making this decision, although I can’t say what type of love it was without giving away spoilers. What I can say is that even thought this was about a murder it was heartwarming as well. The main characters felt more well-rounded than ever, and I deeply enjoyed getting to once again explore their complex relationships with one another.

As I originally mentioned in my review of The Buried Bloom, this series does an excellent job of exploring small town politics. It’s something that was present in that very first book but also continued to be included later on in the series in all sorts of memorable ways. This time around, it centered on the complex relationships that can develop between people who have mixed feelings about each other but are forced to interact more than is emotionally healthy for them due to the limited opportunities for socializing in such a tiny community. While I don’t want to share any spoilers about how that sort of relationship can turn out, I adored what the author did with it and am excited to see what he comes up with next.

The rose analogy worked quite well for me even though I do not grow flowers or garden in my spare time. It will be interesting to see if readers who are more familiar with gardening feel the same way, but I thought those scenes describing how roses can be grown at times of the year when plants in general do not typically bloom not only added some beauty to the storyline but also complemented the life of the victim nicely. They always felt like natural additions to the plot, and I would have happily read even more of them had this been a longer piece.

The Borrowed Bouquet immensely satisfied me.

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Cowboy Watch by Petie McCarty

October 1, 2026 By 3 Comments


Cowboy Watch by Petie McCarty
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Contemporary, Mystery, Paranormal
Rated: 5 stars
Review by Rose

The Watchers Series–Book One

Fallen angels given one chance at redemption . . .

Come heaven or hell.

Cowboy Watch:

Someone is watching Kellen. She can sense it. But who . . .

Kellen Brand’s inheritance comes as a monumental shock—a rundown farm in West Virginia she doesn’t want and one paroled Watcher all her own, a fallen angel with a single chance at redemption. Seriously? A Watcher?

Only her eccentric mother . . .

Since Kellen vows that no sane woman would choose to live in Riverside, she’s on a mission to dump the old farm fast and to the first buyer who comes along. Unfortunately for her, the only buyer is spurned by a townful of objectors and one handsome cowboy—her neighbor, Luke Thornton. Luke must block Kellen’s farm sale or risk exposure of his own family’s secrets. He can ill afford his immediate and compelling attraction to his new neighbor.

Someone is watching Kellen, but not who she thinks. Someone deadly and intent on scaring her out of town. Or worse. Luke has a hellish choice to make—step in and rescue Kellen from her threats, or to protect his family, stand by and watch . . .

This is one of the best books I’ve read this year…. so much so that I read it in one setting.

The characters were so well written. I instantly felt a connection to both of the main characters. I also enjoyed the secondary characters as well….well, most of them. I have to admit to wanting to smack Krystle with a K. But, I think that’s a justified response.

I also have to applaud the author for completely hiding who The Watchers were….I had no idea until the absolute end of the book. Good job, Ms. McCarty… you completely misled me in a marvelous way.

I cannot wait to read the other books sin the series.

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The Brittle Blossom by Jody Chaffin

September 29, 2026 By 1 Comment


The Brittle Blossom by Jody Chaffin
A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery, Book 4
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Holiday, Contemporary
Rating: 4 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

One snowbound Christmas. One body in the ice house. Forty-eight puzzles to the truth.

The grandest gala in forty years fills the Hartwell manor with light and garland — until a blizzard seals the covered bridge and traps the whole party inside for the night. By first light, old Amos Greer is found frozen in the ice house. Everyone calls it a terrible accident: a difficult old man, a wild storm, one careless step into the cold. Retired schoolteacher Eleanor “Nell” Ashworth is the only one still asking who walked him out there.

But this time, the detective is you.

Each chapter hands you a scene and a word search. Solve the puzzle, and the leftover letters reveal a hidden clue — a suspect cleared, a motive exposed, a secret the snow was never meant to give up. Track them across forty-eight puzzles and you’ll be ready to name the killer, the motive, the means, and the place before Nell does.

Winter is no time to take risks outdoors.

This was the perfect setting for such a mysterious death. I found it especially interesting to see how many people were trapped in the Hartwell manor after the blizzard. That’s not as common now as it was a few generations ago, and it gave this tale a slightly eerie and old-fashioned vibe that worked well with the cozy mystery genre in general.

What struck me as a little odd was the lack of technology in this story given its contemporary setting. I would have expected more characters to, say, check a weather app before the party and be better prepared for terrible weather or for someone to have a SUV or other method of travelling that could possibly power through the snowbanks. My assumption was that this must have been a storm of the century to prevent such a large crowd from using modern conveniences to either send for help or head into town, but it would have been nice for the narrator to go into a little more detail about why these things didn’t occur.

The character development was even stronger this time around than it was in The Blighted Bough. Some of my favorite scenes were the ones that explored conflicts among the recurring characters whether they were mild, serious, or somewhere in-between. This is a perfectly normal part of belonging to any community, of course, and it was only amplified given the recent death and the storm that prevented anyone from going home or even spending much time at all outside when they were trying to better manage their emotions. Here’s hoping this trend will continue as I’m really getting to know these characters well.

The Brittle Blossom made me yearn for a sensible amount of snow for Christmas.

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The Blighted Bough by Jody Chaffin

September 28, 2026 By Leave a Comment


The Blighted Bough by Jody Chaffin
A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery, Book 3
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Contemporary
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

One golden harvest. One rotten secret. Forty-eight puzzles to the truth.

The apples are in and the whole of Larkspur Hollow has turned out for the Harvest Festival — the cider press running, the Green strung with lanterns. Then, on the second morning, Hal Bradley is found dead in the cider cellar. Everyone agrees it was a terrible accident: a careless man, a cellar full of working cider, one bad breath of air. Retired schoolteacher Eleanor “Nell” Ashworth is the only one still asking who put him there.

But this time, the detective is you.

Each chapter hands you a scene and a word search. Solve the puzzle, and the leftover letters reveal a hidden clue — a suspect cleared, a motive exposed, a secret the harvest was never meant to give up. Track them across forty-eight puzzles and you’ll be ready to name the killer, the motive, the means, and the place before Nell does.

No one can outrun the past.

As mentioned in my reviews of the first two stories in this series, I have previously had trouble with the limited character development in this universe. This is something I’m sharing yet again because I’m beginning to see signs of change in this area and I wanted to tip my cap to the author for this. While there’s still work to do as far as making the character well rounded goes, I did feel like I was able to get to know them better in the third instalment and am looking forward to seeing how they grow and change in the future as a result of living in a community where murders happen so regularly.

I struggled with the killer’s motivation this time around. It didn’t seem serious enough to warrant such a violent action, especially given how easy it would be to either hide what this person didn’t want to have revealed or to find people in town who would sympathize with them and not think of it as a scandalous thing in the modern age. As much as I wanted to give this one a higher rating, my difficulty understanding why the antagonist behaved this way was an obstacle to doing so.

With that being said, I loved the historical information about the 1920s and 1930s that was included about how certain parcels of land in this community were used back then. While all of the scenes were set in present day, the past influenced the characters in all sorts of creative ways. This is something that happens in real life fairly regularly as well across a wide variety of topics, so it was cool to see it represented in fiction.

The Blighted Bough was thoughtful.

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The Bitter Berry by Jody Chaffin

September 25, 2026 By Leave a Comment


The Bitter Berry by Jody Chaffin
A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery, Book 2
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Contemporary
Rating: 4 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

Preston Hartwell came home to Larkspur Hollow the golden boy everyone remembered. By the week of the Strawberry Social, he’d made an enemy of nearly everyone. By the end of it, he was dead.

Everyone calls it a tragedy — a good heart giving out in the summer heat. Retired schoolteacher Nell Ashworth calls it murder, and she means to name who’s behind it. But this time, the detective is you.

Solve each chapter’s word search, and the leftover letters reveal a hidden clue: a suspect cleared, a motive exposed, a secret long buried. Across forty-eight puzzles, you’ll gather everything you need to name the killer, the motive, the means, and the place — then find out whether you’ve cracked the case.

Six suspects. One sweet summer social, one bitter secret. A verdict only you can reach.

Nothing can conceal the truth forever.

While these can be read as standalone works, readers who stick to their publishing order will get to learn a little more about the recurring characters over time. I know I was pleased to meet up again with some familiar faces and figure things out about them that weren’t shared in the first instalment. This struck a good balance between encouraging new fans to join in on the fun while also rewarding its existing audience with some information that makes more sense to people who have already visited Larkspur Hollow in their imaginations before.

In my earlier review of “The Buried Bloom,” I mentioned wanting more plot and character development from these books, and I was happy to see the former be given more time to shine in the sequel. There were hints shared about aspects of this community that are such deeply concealed secrets I wondered if anyone outside of that particular family was actually aware of it. Had the recurring characters been given an equal amount of attention, this would have been an easy five-star read for me for sure. My fingers are crossed that I will be able to cross that threshold with a future review.

I adored the bittersweet mystery this time around, especially when it came to how differently a society might treat various members based on how much money or social standing they have. That topic is an especially good one for the cozy mystery genre due to how many different ways it can be explored. While I don’t want to accidentally give away any spoilers, other readers should take close note of how the various characters in this small town behave around each other and well as around outsiders. It’s something that I can only hope will explored more in future instalments of this series.

The Bitter Berry has only increased my desire to experience this entire series!

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