Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

  I'll start with an apology, because I was sent this book for review last summer, and I listened to it, and enjoyed it, and somehow the review never got written. I only discovered this when I saw the second book was out, and went to look at my review and see what I'd thought of this one. No dice. I must have gone on vacation. So here it is, better late than never.  Title: One Dead, Two to Go  (Eddie Shoes Mystery #1) Author: Elena Hartwell, narrated by Moira Driscoll Publisher: Audible, 2016. Paperback by Camel Press, 2016, 240 pages. Source: Review copy from publisher Publisher's Summary: Private Investigator Edwina “Eddie Shoes” Schultz’s most recent job has her parked outside a seedy Bellingham hotel, photographing her quarry as he kisses his mistress goodbye. This is the last anyone will see of the woman … alive. Her body is later found dumped in an abandoned building. Eddie’s client, Kendra Hallings, disappears soon after. Eddie hates to be stiffed for her

K is for Kitty Padgett, of the Pismawallops PTA mysteries In a nutshell: Kitty is JJ’s best friend (see yesterday's post), and she's as patient as JJ is hasty. Kitty actually seems to understand teens. Biggest secret: She has far fewer answers than her kids think she does. Favorite line: "If only she'd learn to say please and thank you." Because Kitty believes that a bit of courtesy will go a long way toward making the world a better place. A favorite scene where Kitty yanks JJ's chain, just enough to prove she's no push-over. From Death By Trombone, Chapter 4. We ate and drank in silence for a few minutes, enjoying the sunshine, blue water, and bluer sky. June sunshine was rare enough on our island that we never took it for granted, and it had felt like a particularly long and wet spring. Or maybe that was my mood, my own struggles affecting the weather, or at least my perception of the weather. At last, mellowed by