Arsenic and Old Books by Miranda JamesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the 6th book in this series. The character have become much more developed with each book. It's a light -hearted book. It's easy to figure out who the killer is, but it's more about getting to know the characters, and what's going on in their lives. It's like catching up with old friends.
The story takes place in Athena, Mississippi, librarian Charlie Harris is a widow, his two children are grown up and have moved on to careers of their own. His companion is a Maine Coon cat named Diesel, who loves chicken, fried, baked, stewed...any way chicken is made he loves it.
Mayor Lucinda Beckwith Long donates four volumes of her husband's ancestor diaries to the archive at Athena College. Before Charlie can get them catalog, the diaries are stole, and a history professor at the college, who is interested in the diaries in hopes that she will make tenure, is killed by a hit and run. When Charlie returns to work a mysterious fifth volume of the diaries suddenly appears on his desk.
The other fourth volumes find there way back to Charlie, but find there are ten pages ripped out of the diaries. Who is hiding a family secret, why is one diary not like the others as to how the ancestor is being portrayed in the other volumes, is this one diary a forgery? And who would kill the professor, was it an accident or a way to silences her? The answers are all in the book, that is entertaining.
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