Books - Spookie Town Murder Mysteries

 

Normally I post collections that I have nearly read all of them or most of them.  This one is different as I have only read the first book and it was so good I had to share it right away.  I found it in my weekly list of book bargains from BookBub this past Friday and it was marked as free so who could turn that down especially when the summary sounded so intriguing and I couldn't put it down once I started.  The characters were great and the mystery very challenging, with a little spooky too. 

'Abigail Sutton's beloved husband walks out one night, doesn't return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of an earlier crime. It's made her sympathetic to the missing and their families.

Starting her new life, Abigail moves to a small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died. Once it was also home to Edna's younger sister, Emily, and her two children, Jenny and Christopher, who, people believe, drove away one night, thirty years ago, and just never came back.

But in renovating the house Abigail finds scraps of paper hidden behind baseboards and tucked beneath the porch that hint the three could have been victims of foul play.

Then she finds their graves hidden in the woods behind the house and with the help of the eccentric townspeople and ex-homicide detective, Frank Lester, she discovers the three were murdered. Then she and Frank try to uncover who killed them and why...but in the process awaken the ire of the murderer.'

This was a great read from start to finish and I am looking forward to reading more in the series, so far there are 10 books. 

'We’re back in Spookie again for the tenth adventure. Sheriff Frank Lester is trying to solve two heinous murders, and, as usual, old lady Myrtle, who used to see ghosts all the time, but not so much lately, just has to get involved. By sheer determination and her usual stubbornness she forces the sheriff to let her help solve the crimes. Old Myrtle has other troubles, though. A strange ethereal white entity is stalking her, and she fears it’s the angel of death. Abigail is busy painting a mural for Vicki’s new chocolate shop, and Kate at The Delicious Circle has hired a homeless woman to help her and her husband, Norman, out at the bakery. Harvey has a new friend, a cute baby squirrel he rescues off the side of the road, and names Little Buddy; a ghost of his own who is desperately trying to warn him of something terrible coming. And Glinda, the psychic, also can foresee something cataclysmal heading for them, too. But neither know what the disaster approaching is. So come and revisit them and many more in the foggy, mysterious little town called Spookie. They’re all waiting for you.'

Yup, a little fantasy and make belief and all woven into murder but so very well done that I am looking forward to reading more in this series.  

Enjoy a book today

Recipes - Chicken Cacciatore in Slow Cooker

 

Yup, another chicken one and this is because during the snowfall hubby was helping others clean off their cars.  Both ladies knew that he did and wanted to pay him.  Hubby does these things just as a kindness and does not ever want to be paid for it.  They keep insisting and one tries to give him baked goods, which was nice when she was younger but her baking now isn't as good as it was.  The other when he wouldn't take the money shoved a package of frozen chicken in my hands and ran away.  Now I have way more chicken that I could ever want or need.  From now on I am going to risk a lie and when they ask if he cleared their car I am going to say - nope wasn't him.  Hubby just can't understand why people can't seem to just accept a kindness anymore with just a thank you.  

1 skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut in half
1 container of homemade spaghetti sauce (leave out if you don't have one)
1 jar of plain prepared spaghetti sauce
1 can tomato paste
6 white mushrooms cut into slices
1/2 sweet onion, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp basil
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp red pepper

Place chicken in a slow cooker, stir in spaghetti sauces, tomato paste, mushrooms, onion, pepper, garlic and spices. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Serve with noodles.

And as we dig out...

Favourite Walker Sort of - Ambient Worlds

 

After such a dumping of snow I was sitting wondering about walking videos or fun ones or old ones and then I thought of Ambient Worlds  This person does some amazing work.  Some are just a beautiful picture and some are really fun walks.  

Here I am posting one of my favourites, walking around the rooms of Hufflepuff House.  

https://youtu.be/9dCriLr5LPA?si=HQb2hNWPvZQsoy7B

I always thought that Hufflepuff would be my house.  He did do all the others so you can pick your favourite and take a walk through your house.  

Have a great Monday.