pickI greatly enjoy this cozy mystery series featuring Charlie the librarian and his cat Diesel. This series entry features a children‘s author whose books are very similar to Nancy Drew (perfect #NancyDrewBR tie in). Book collecting and the antics of obsessed collectors is comically explored. And, of course, murder happens. Fast read with entertaining characters.
pickThese books are great for when I need something easy to read. This one took place in Asheville, NC but it was the same old story about a guy who brings his cat everywhere and solves mysteries.
pickThis series is growing on me. Charlie is still kind of a judgmental busybody in this book but it kind of works. I skipped a few so eventually I‘ll go back to the beginning.
pickCharlie and friends are having a week away with their book club to discuss gplden age murder mysteries. Naturally, people in the hoteI start turning up dead.
Always pleased to visit Charlie Harris and Diesel again.
pickCharlie's daughter Laura is playing the female lead in a new play put on by the campus dept. of theatre studies. When the obnoxious male lead is poisoned on stage Charlie has to get involved in the investigation. Supposing it had been Laura who drank the fatal glass of tea?
Another quick, enjoyable read, this time with added imposters. Will the real Finn Zwake please stand up?
pickCharlie signs up to audit a class at his university. By the second session one of the students has been murdered and by the third session the lecturer has also been murdered.
Despite references to Jessica Fletcher in the book, nobody has drawn the obvious conclusion: if Charlie enters your social circle, get out fast.
pickGerry Albritton throws a Christmas party to introduce herself to the neighbourhood, and collapses and dies in the middle of it after some blazing rows in the run-up to the party and at the party itself.
The murder doesn't take place till halfway through the book but really the murders in these books are just an excuse to spend time with Charlie and Diesel and their family and friends, so who cares?
bailedWritten in the first person it took me a while to realise that this was a male voice. It did not get me in so finally I bailed. But not before reading who did it!
