Welcome to the first Cozy Crime time review! The paramount book on the chopping block is The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day. Giant Dragon Ball Lamp: Conversation piece and potent symbol for your living room Genre: Historical, romantical   POV: First person   Detective: (Caroline) Fremont Jones - Typewriter, small business woman and knife-cane owner Setting: Turn-of-the-century San Francisco Fusspot Inner Great Aunt Sexy...

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The indomitable Maggie Hope from Mr Churchill's Secretary is back in a new adventure where Princess Elizabeth bites a Nazi: Genre: Historical POV: Third Person Omniscient Detective: Maggie Hope - American mathematician and spy Setting: WWII England Fusspot Inner Great Aunt Sexy Times Alarm: As unobjectionable as a blancmange  Maggie Hope, who we last saw dismantling IRA bombs in St. Paul's Cathedral, has flunked out of spy school. Brilliant...

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I'm a Terrible Children's Librarian

This book represents a professional failing but also the awesomeness of old-timey lamps Bad Children's Librarian Confession Time: This is not something I tell everyone. In fact, I`ve never uttered these words aloud. Once, I whispered them to my teddy bear in the night and then promptly buried him in the backyard because he was a snitch. (This is a lie. I could never hurt Theodore). I've never read Bridge to Terabithia. Yep. Never. I skipped...

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