What have I been reading?

Seems like I've been reading a lot but right now I can only think of a few books that I've actually finished. "Murder at Longbourn" by Tracy Kiely - was just O.K., not great. I found the heroine whiny and a brat.This is another in the long list of books that have been fixated on Jane Austen's novels. Elizabeth Parker has dumped or been dumped by a two-timing boyfriend and one-upped by her sister and her best friend is getting engaged over the New Year's Eve vacation with her boyfriend, so she accepts her aunt's invitation to her new Bed and Breakfast inn on Cape Cod for a "How to host a murder party". Except that there is a real murder and Elizabeth decides she'll solve it.
"Ghost ala Mode" by Sue Ann Jaffarian is the start of a new series about a woman and the ghost of her ancestress, Granny Apples.Emma has just met Granny at a seance and doesn't really believe in her but she will, and she'll go to great lengths to prove that Granny wasn't guilty of murdering her husband and didn't deserve to hang. I liked this one better than the Jane Austen one.
Tried "Rosemary and Rue" - too grim and the end wasn't good - I read the ending if I'm not sure about books. Tried another one that went the same way - too grim and not a good ending. I'm finishing "Nine Gates" by Jane Lindskold. Like the one before it, it's a little too wordy and long on explanation of mythology.

It helps to be psychic

Doom with a View by Victoria Laurie was a nice quick read for a lazy Sunday. Abigail Cooper has been asked to work with a very skeptical FBI agent in the latest Psychic Eye book. I kept thinking that I'd read this before but it must have been the part of it that was printed in the last book in the series I'd read. College students are missing and since they are all politically connected the FBI is doing their thing to get to the bottom of it. Abby realizes that at least one student is dead and another will be abducted. Can she save them?

Not quite Maisie Dobbs

The new book by Charles Todd, "A Duty to the Dead", is good but doesn't quite strike the same chord as the Maisie Dobbs series. We meet Bess Crawford, an English army nurse as the ship she's on, headed towards Greece, hits a mine and everyone must abandon ship. Her arm is badly broken and she is eventually sent home to recuperate.
A former patient had asked her to deliver a message to his brother and Bess reluctantly does so. His message indicates that he had lied to save his mother pain but it (whatever "it" is) must be made right. This is a very disfunctional family that she's gotten involved with, including a son who was sent to an insane asylum at fourteen for murdering a servent girl. Bess will keep poking around until she finds the truth, does her duty to the dead and brings justice to the innocent.