Friday, May 22, 2009

New cozy mystery series

I just finished "The Cold Light of Morning" by Elizabeth Duncan. This is the start of a new series I'm thrilled to have discovered. It's heroine is a 50+ former Canadian living in Wales, Penny Brannigan. She has a manicure shop and lives in the apartment over the shop. She's doing well even though the village of Llanelen is not very big. The major event at the moment is the wedding of Emyr Gruffydd, son of wealthy local landowner and Meg Wynne Thompson, a very much self-made woman who tends to rub most people the wrong way. It is a shock to all then when Meg Wynne disappears after having her nails done by Penny the morning of the wedding. At the funeral of Penny's dear friend Emma, she notices something odd but it isn't until later that she realizes the implication of that small detail. Along the way, Penny will make a new friend in Victoria and acquire a beau - the investigation policeman, Detective Chief Inspector Gareth Davies. His sergeant, Bethan Morgan, becomes very fond of these two ladies and enjoys their company. A second series with older ladies - there is also the Thistle and Twigg series by Mary Saums - makes this older reader quite happy.

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