Thursday, May 21, 2020

Better Off Read

Better Off Read by Nora Page   325 pages

A last minute grab as we were exiting the building for weeks of sheltering-in-place, this first of a new (Bookmobile Mystery) series is a home run for cozy mystery fans alone. “When her best hope of saving her storm-damaged library is found murdered, senior librarian Cleo Watkins hits the road in her bookmobile in search of justice.” The premise is great, a librarian fighting to keep the city's public library alive, a murder needing to be solved, a small town setting, Southern cooking...all elements of a cozy mystery. However, the cast of quirky characters is too numerous to  fully develop; it’s as if the author wanted to introduce them all, relevant to the plot or not, in the first book, which distracted from necessary plot and denouement details. It’s OK, but more established series are better…
Posted by: Regina C.  

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