The Death of Amelia Marsh by MaryJo Dawson

The first of the Sally Nimitz mystery novels introduces you to Sally, a labour/delivery nurse and her friends and family.  Her husband has passed and they have 2 grown children, a son who lives close, who has a son who is the apple of Sallly's eye.  Her sister-in-law lives next door but they are not close which plays into the first book's storyline.  Her late husband's best friend George has become Sally's best friend (no romance there) and her best sounding board when she needs to work things out that are puzzling her.  In this story she meets a neighbor, Anne, an older lady and they become great friends.  She is always up for any adventure Sally throws at her.
    MaryJo's writing style is intelligent, witty, gripping and flows along quickly. I usually read her books in just a few days because I can't put them down.  Sally isn't your usual frazzled housewife who outwits the cops in solving the murder.  She is an intelligent middle aged woman who puzzles out brain teasing   problems.  When her neighbor is found dead in her apartment, her head bashed in, Sally notices not a thing has been disturbed anywhere.  Someone just walked in, bonked her in the head, and walked out.  the worst part was the old woman had requested to see Sally just after it happened.  Sally was the one who discovered the body, so she feels inclined to find Amelia's killer. This is an incredibly fun book to read, very clean, very thought provoking, yet easy reading.  Her job throws in a fun secondary storyline that I enjoyed having just spent a lot of the last year in the hospital.  Another plus, you can get this book free on the website Smashwords or kindle or paperback is just $2.99

PG
H-ll 4, G-d 4

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Baked Alaska by Josi S Kilpack

Having suffered through a year long illness I have finally started reading again.  I'm going to attempt to do a few reviews of the few books I have read in the past few months.  I have to say I loved this latest book by Josi Kilpack.  She attempts to take an Alaskan cruise with her two grown, adopted children and her boyfriend (separate cabins of course) but nothing goes smoothly.  From the moment she boards the ship she is haunted by a woman she sees arguing with her son.  He refuses to talk to her about the woman, which confuses and hurts Josi because she and her son, Sean.  They have always been so close and Josi values honesty and cannot stand any type of secrecy.  Of course she sets out to investigate who this woman is, which leads to a tragedy and a twist I didn't see coming.  As the secondary storyline Josi's daughter,  Breanna is planning her wedding to a count who lives in England, whose mother has some very strong ideas about what the wedding should be.  It is breaking Breanna's heart, so Josi is also trying her best to deal with that at the same time.  This was a really fun  book with multiple mysteries going on all at the same time.  I highly recommend it for a fun, clean read!
Rating: G
No sex, just a few sweet stolen kisses under the moonlight :0)

No Swearing

Violence: Relatively small amount of violence.  No one witnesses any murder and no one is assaulted