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I liked that Meg had other interests than trying to solve a murder.
Nina Fleet is enjoying her quiet life as a new resident of Cymbeline, Georgia. Well, there is the crazy man that claims he should have inherited the house she bought and threatens to sue, and the mayor just bullied her into opening a B&B. Otherwise, everything is peachy.
Nina's (pronounced Nine-ah) first guests are six nuns that are evicted from their convent because their lease is up. (This made me do a double take: the catholic church is renting property?) The landowner is pretty much the most hated man in town. He's deluded people into selling him their property cheap and he's even found a loop-hole in a contract with the town that enabled him to build four times more homes than the town had planned. (Again, double take: wouldn't the building license state exactly what he was supposed to build?)
Anyway, I've got him pegged as the eventual murder victim (setting the scene takes about 6 chapters), simply because there would be the longest list of suspects - pretty much everyone apart from Nina.
I like this cozy, perhaps because it doesn't do what I don't like in some others. Nina sleuths by way of talking to her neighbours. She isn't pushy, she doesn't demand private information from strangers and she doesn't break into other people's property.
And the Sheriff isn't stupid. I always like that. Very few stupid people in this book. Lots of strong female characters.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
Nina's (pronounced Nine-ah) first guests are six nuns that are evicted from their convent because their lease is up. (This made me do a double take: the catholic church is renting property?) The landowner is pretty much the most hated man in town. He's deluded people into selling him their property cheap and he's even found a loop-hole in a contract with the town that enabled him to build four times more homes than the town had planned. (Again, double take: wouldn't the building license state exactly what he was supposed to build?)
Anyway, I've got him pegged as the eventual murder victim (setting the scene takes about 6 chapters), simply because there would be the longest list of suspects - pretty much everyone apart from Nina.
I like this cozy, perhaps because it doesn't do what I don't like in some others. Nina sleuths by way of talking to her neighbours. She isn't pushy, she doesn't demand private information from strangers and she doesn't break into other people's property.
And the Sheriff isn't stupid. I always like that. Very few stupid people in this book. Lots of strong female characters.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
I'm partial to books set in Amsterdam (or any other Dutch town) written by foreigners. It's fun to see the places and people I know through the eyes of a stranger.
David Mirte has a few jobs to do in Amsterdam. One is to sit on a panel of writers. Another is to find the daughter of a former fence who did some time rather than rat him out. Then Delia Delacourt shows up. She needs his help to prevent that a dying and wealthy American causes some embarrassment by have a painting stolen from the Rijksmuseum. And there's this woman that is trying to kill him. That's got to stop too, for obvious reasons.
This was a fun, fast-paced and action packed narrative. And the descriptions of the Dutch are pretty accurate. Except, we don't say moo-say-um for museum. It's more like mue-say-um.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
David Mirte has a few jobs to do in Amsterdam. One is to sit on a panel of writers. Another is to find the daughter of a former fence who did some time rather than rat him out. Then Delia Delacourt shows up. She needs his help to prevent that a dying and wealthy American causes some embarrassment by have a painting stolen from the Rijksmuseum. And there's this woman that is trying to kill him. That's got to stop too, for obvious reasons.
This was a fun, fast-paced and action packed narrative. And the descriptions of the Dutch are pretty accurate. Except, we don't say moo-say-um for museum. It's more like mue-say-um.
I read an ARC through Netgalley.
Leuk boekje over wat er mis gaat in vergaderingen. Sommige dingen herken ik uit eigen vergadering, maar ik concludeer vooral: bij ons valt eigenlijk nog best wel mee.
