It's Friday! Congrats on making it through another week. Dead Souls by Angela Marsons it out today. It is a wonderful and complex novel that I thoroughly loved reading! Angela Marsons did it again. She never fails to deliver. If you enjoy suspense/thriller novels, you really should look into Angela Marsons D.I. Kim Stone novels.
A Good Day to Buy by Sherry Harris is the fourth book in A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery series. Sarah Winston is helping Verne and Velma Spencer
downsize their collections for a move to Florida. Today is garage sale day, and Velma keeps
trying to reclaim items. Her husband,
Verne takes her inside, and Sarah gets ready to bargain. Later in the morning, a customer attempts to
enter an off-limits area in the garage that Sarah has cordoned off with
sheets. Behind the sheets, Sarah
discovers the couple on the floor. Verne is dead, but Velma still has a pulse. Through the back door of the garage, Sarah
sees a man fleeing into the woods. After
giving her statement to the police, Sarah is home enjoying a Fluffernutter
sandwich (marshmallow Fluff and peanut butter) when there is a knock at the
door. It is Sarah’s estranged brother,
Luke who is twitchy and acting cagey. He
needs a place to stay and asks Sarah not to tell anyone that he is there
especially C.J. (Chief of Police and Sarah’s ex-husband/current paramour). Luke tells Sarah that he is an investigative
reporter working on a story. Luke stays
a short time, but he is soon gone without a word. When Luke’s fingerprints turn up in the Spencer’s
garage and he becomes a “person of interest”, Sarah knows she must take action. Sarah finds a notebook of Luke’s in the couch
that contains a list of names. Sarah
hopes that Luke’s research will lead her to him. She knows her brother did not hurt the Spencer’s. Now, she has to prove it and then explain her
deception to C.J. Sarah will need to stay
alert and on her toes, because she is not the only person trying to find Luke!
A Good Day to Buy is nicely
written and has a good pace (and flow).
A Good Day to Buy can be read alone.
The needed background information on Sarah is provided in the book (and
she has a complicated history). There
are some wonderful descriptions of antiques in the book. I love vintage items and there are several objects
described that I want to own. I give A Good Day to Buy 4 out of 5 stars. I am not a fan of the romance in this
series. I was very disappointed to see
Sarah take up with her ex-husband again (I preferred her with Seth). He strikes me as a self-centered individual,
and he does not seem happy with the new Sarah (who she has become since the
divorce). I believe Sarah is with him
because it is comfortable, easy, and familiar.
It will be interesting to see what happens between C.J. and Sarah in the
next book. The murder mystery was
complex and a delight to solve. I
believe many readers will be stumped by this one. The secondary storyline regarding veterans was
shocking (spoiler). There are some handy
garage sale tips at the end of the book.
I enjoyed A Good Day to Buy better than the previous book in the series. I was especially grateful that Ms. Harris cut
down on the Fluffernutter sandwich references (makes me queasy just thinking
about them). I was surprised by the
cliffhanger ending (and disappointed). I
hope the author will resolve the issue early in the next book and not drag it
out (sorry, but I do not want to spoil it for anyone). Tagged for Death ($2.99 on Amazon--Kindle), The Longest Yard Sale ($1.99 on Amazon--Kindle), and All Murders Final! are the first three books in the series.
Thank you for your visit and I hope you have a great Friday. I will be sharing my thoughts on No Charm Intended by Mollie Cox Bryan on Saturday. I have to go put a new cat play center together. The cats have destroyed their last one (they have had it for a year). Cats love climbing and sharpening their nails! Take care and Happy Reading!
Kris
The Avid Reader
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