Good Friday's Friday Post

Welcome to Good Friday.  It's time for this week's Friday Post.  I will be linking up to:

Book Beginnings
First Line Friday
Friday 56
Book Blogger Hop

My teasers for the first three will be coming from Murder, Local Style by Leslie Karst.

This is book three in her Orchid Isle Mystery series, and comes out on Tuesday.  But I was fortunate enough to get an ARC, so I've already finished it.

Here's how the book begins:

Paradise isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.

That sets a tone, doesn't it?

Meanwhile, at 56% into the eARC I read, we get this quote:

“You’re so welcome. Happy to be able to help in any way I can.” And this way I’ll get a chance to see all the suspects together at the same time, was Valerie’s unspoken thought. Just like in a TV mystery.

Will Valerie learn anything by having all the suspects together?  You'll have to read the book to find out.

I'll be reviewing the book on Tuesday, so I hope you'll come back to see what I thought.

For now, let's just over to this week's Book Blogger Hop.  The question is:

Which book really showcases your favorite author’s style, and what makes it stand out?

You assume I have a favorite author.  That alone could be an entire ramble from me.  But I'm going to go with a bit of an obvious choice, Dorothy Gilman.  (I stole Carstairs from her Mrs. Pollifax series.)  But I'm going to go with The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax, which is the second in the series, instead of the obvious first book.  This second book really cemented the series for me.

This book finds Mrs. Pollifax, a part time spy for the CIA, heading to Turkey on assignment.  Along the way, she starts talking to her seat mate.  Yep, he turns out to be very important to the story.  We still get humor in the narration and Mrs. Pollifax's out of the box actions.  And, of course, things go very wrong very quickly, leading to a wild journey across the country while Carstairs, back in Langley, Virginia, tries to figure out where she is.  To me, this is the set up for the best stories in the series.  The details vary, but those elements keep me hook and the pages turning.

That's it for me.  Hope your weekend is great.