Showing posts with label Sarah Graves. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

BOOK REVIEW: A Bat in the Belfry, by Sarah Graves

A Bat in the Belfry
A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
Author: Sarah Graves
Publisher: Bantam (Random House Publishing) 
Publication Date: April 30, 2013 

I've only read one other book in Sarah Graves' "Home Repair is Homicide" series, Wreck the Halls, and that was so long ago I don't remember anything about it. I vaguely remember liking it, but based on my review (written before I had a book blog, back when I just jotted down my thoughts on the books I'd read in a little notebook on my night stand), I did not.

Still, after several weeks of increasingly depressing reads, I was all set for a nice cozy mystery. The problem was that this one was a little darker than I had hoped, opening with a young teenaged girl being bound and murdered in the church belfry. Eesh. But it wasn't quite tense enough to be a thriller either, so it was sort of in between "cozy" and "gruesome."