I am working my way through a stack of paperbacks and a list of ebooks of contemporary mysteries. My summer reading program is to try to read as many different contemporary mystery sleuths as possible to see just how many different types of job an inadvertant sleuth can have. SO far I have read mysteries featuring a ball room dance instructor, a pet psychic, a real estate agent, a caterer, a blacksmith, the owner of a cupcake bakery & the owner of a bread bakery. I have mysteries featuring a tiki bar owner, a tea shoppe, a coffee shoppe, a yarn store, a knitter, a scrapbooker, a math professor and a quilter (among others) still to go.
I like seeing how the author explains the sleuth finding the body (and if they continue to do so in subsequent books)
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