Started: May 16
Finished: May 18
Pages: 289
Margaret Maron writes very comfortable books. When you visit Deborah Knott, her husband, stepson, and her large extended family, it feels very natural to spend a few days with her preparing for Christmas and watching her husband figure our the causes of the latest tragedy to hit Colleton County. I suppose that makes her books fall into the "cozy" category, even though the deaths are seem real and sad, and unpleasantness lurks beneath the surface of the life of the perfect cheerleader and her grieving family. But every neatly-wrapped up murder mystery needs to have a murder at its heart (Alexander McCall Smith excepted), and Maron writes better than many mystery authors. So Christmas Mourning wasn't a bad way to waste a few head-achy summer hours.
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