Ellie Haskell is distraught to hear that her cleaning woman, Mrs. Malloy, is leaving her. It turns out that Mrs. Malloy is going to stay in London with her son and his wife, who need her help with the baby. Ellie doesn’t know what she’ll do without Mrs. Malloy, who is more of a friend than a housekeeper, but she bravely decides to ask one of Mrs. Malloy’s friends to come take her place. When Mrs. Large arrives, Ellie finds that she is, truly, very large. She’s also very clumsy and breaks a valued item in the Haskell house. She … Continue reading →

There’s almost nothing I love to read more than a good cozy mystery, and I really enjoyed every minute I spent immersed in “Sick of Shadows.” With only a small bit of language and nothing graphic, this was a cozy mystery at its best. Elizabeth MacPherson knows her family is eccentric, but just how eccentric, she knows not. When she goes to Georgia for the wedding of her cousin Eileen, she wasn’t prepared to discover that her cousin Alban had built a replica of a Disney castle right across the street from the family home. Eileen was recently released from … Continue reading →