This is the third installment of Cricket McRae's Home Crafting Mystery series. As with the first two, I found it a quick and entertaining read. As a side note, this book is notable in that I believe it is the first book I've read in which someone "googles" something. Ha! The tone of this book was...
I like this series. I love the crafting info and cooking info. They garden, have their own chickens, go to the farmer's market and in this book she is taking cheese making class and I am at a part where she is learning about making Kefir, the dairy she goes to is organic/pastured, etc Refreshin...
I had a hard time getting interested in Sophie Mae's personal life, but I think that might have more to do with not having read the first books than Sophie Mae herself. Her detective work, however, was awful. And I'm sure that's realistic -- if I were suddenly thrown a murder to solve, I'd probab...
Cocoa butter soap, check. Lemon lip balm, check. A dead body? That's just what Sophie Mae Reynolds finds in her workroom: the corpse of Walter Hanover, the neighborhood handyman. He died from drinking lye, something she has in good supply. But the police don't suspect Sophie Mae, a thirty-somethi...
Kyla was a senior at Cadyville High, and spent most of the time we worked talking about the colleges she'd applied to. As she enthusiastically rambled on about moving out and living in a dorm, her sister rolled her eyes and made noises of disgust from the other side of the table. I imagined she'd...