Advent of a Mystery by Marilyn Leach

Trouble always seems to find the vicar's wife, Berdie. Eager to please her husband, Berdie determines to keep her nose clean and concentrate on her church responsibilities during the holiday season. When she enters the home of an elderly church parishioner to pick her up for an early morning of shopping, Berdie discovers the house has been ransacked and the elderly Miss Livingston murdered. Berdie is certain she can figure out who the perpetrator was.

The local constable desires to wrap up the case as quickly as possible and clear his docket. He eagerly rounds up a suspect and jails him based on circumstantial evidence. Berdie digs deeper. Something doesn't sit quite right with her. Her investigative instincts tell her there is more to this story. With the help of her best friend Lillie, she is determined to prove the innocent Jamie was framed. Gypsies, hidden marriages, and World War II crimes all come to light when Berdie noses around trying to keep another murder from happening in her small village. 

Marilyn Leach depicts a beautiful English village during the holiday season. Her humor of the behind the scenes life of the vicar and his wife is spot on! I eagerly await Berdie's next escapade. 

Thanks to Barbour Books for my Advanced Reader's Copy.

A Case for Love by Kaye Dacus

When Bachelor of the Year, Forbes Guidry, and Channel 6 news reporter, Aliane Delacriox, cross paths for the first time they have no idea that their families are soon to be at war. Alaine's emotions are in an uproar when she realizes the very person she think she could fall for is the connected to the company trying to destroy her families' businesses. 

Is Forbes willing to sacrifice everything he has worked so hard for? His career? His family? His control? To pursue a woman he's only seen on TV?

Although this is the third book in the series the Brides of Bonneterre, it could be read as a stand alone novel. Dacus writes in a way that is easy to read and makes you want to keep turning those pages. Barbour Books has definitely done it again!

Thanks to Barbour Books for my review copy.

Missing Mabel by Nancy Mehl

Hilde Higgins is positive the body she saw on the gurney was not the same Mabel she saw on the gurney earlier. But who wants to believe a mortuary hair dresser who dropped out of school and left a posh salon to do the hair of dead people? She's not even sure her own mother believes her. But Hilde is positive bodies have been switched and Mabel is missing.

Hilde spends the novel searching for the missing Mabel, watching out for her landlady and her nephew, and making social faux pas with her mother. Mehl does a a great job taking us inside the life of a small town funeral hair dresser who is constantly finding trouble.

I for one am ready for more of Hilde Higgins and her exciting neighborhood.