I've been reading Joan Hess books for years so I was excited to find her newest book had come out. She writes with a lot of humor but also with a serious hand on murder. The cast of characters in this book is what amused me and kept me reading. Claire owns the local bookstore, she is married to Peter who has secret ties to the FBI and a teenage daughter who is very dramatic and speaks in Capital Letters Mom! This cracks me up! Her very recent marriage has made their living arrangements extremely close quarters so it is time to go house hunting. She finds the perfect house, however buying it is complicated, the owners end up dead and the extended family (the strange, funny, wacko cast of characters) don't want outsiders buying any home in their commune. When the agent showing the house to Claire comes up missing, Claire believes it isn't a coincidence, and the deaths of the owners just might have been murder, and so the mystery begins. I hadn't read a Claire Malloy mystery in quite awhile and I was a little surprised at how much profanity was in it. It wasn't extreme, no words that made me uncomfortable, but enough to give it a PG-13. But I still really loved it.
PG-13
Sex-none
Violence-mild murder is discussed but nothing graphic
Profanity- D-mn 14, H-ll 6, S-it 3, Ass 3, G-d 2 other remarks referring to God, B-stard 2, B-tch 2
I've always researched ratings and content to avoid graphic sex, violence, and profanity before seeing movies. Why are there no websites showing book options that are free of these items? Here you'll find recommendations for "clean" books, ratings broken down by sex, violence, and profanity. Most of the books will be cozy Murder Mysteries, my favorite genre, however there will be other types of books as well. Hopefully this will help those of you looking for "clean" reads!
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