Book Review: Death, Bones, and Stately Homes

Reviewed By: Ruth Jordan - RAM

Death, Bones, and Stately Homes    
Valerie S. Malmont
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy
Series: Tori Miracle # 5
2003, Perseverance Press, 288 pages

Tori Miracle returns and we know it’s going to be another tough couple of weeks in the rural town of Lickin Creek. Miss Malmont does not disappoint her reader. DEATH, BONES, and STATELY HOMES starts with Tori and friend Alice-Anne finding a body that’s been bricked up for forty years. It seems that perhaps one of Lickin Creek’s historical tales of romance may not have had the happy ending everyone has assumed.

In the pages of this engaging book featuring mystery on the lighter side of the fence, there are more bodies to be discovered , an international crisis with personal repercussions for our heroine, a date not to be believed and an impasse in Tori’s relationship with former Police Chief Garnet. There’s also a well crafted mystery with suspects galore. Whipped up with more skill than any of the recipes at the back require. The book is everything you could possibly want from the cozy side of the genre.

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