I discovered Sara Rosett in book one of her latest series, the High Society Lady Detective.  I followed Olive, a young Miss Marple, through all seven books as she sorts the clues and finds the killer in this 1920s cozy series. Her protagonist, Olive Bellgrave, is penniless despite her aristocratic upbringing. She needs work and jumps at an unconventional job as a lady detective. Murders occur early in all of Sara’s mysteries, and her female gumshoes often become a suspect, adding to the pressure to find the real killer. Sara’s descriptions put you at her protagonist’s side, the plots are tight with numerous twists, and the solutions work.

As I noted on Facebook, I just finished book seven in Rosett’s previous series Murder on Location. In the series, Kate Sharp, a location scout and Jane Austen fan, moves to Nether Woodsmoor, a quaint UK village of golden stone cottages and rolling green hills, to find movie locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. In the series, Kate helps to solve murders in neighboring UK villages, so Nether Woodsmore avoids looking like a serial killer’s haven. The varied locations have a secondary benefit—readers experience other English towns through Sara’s detailed descriptions.

What’s a mystery without some romance? Sara’s female protagonists are young, single, and attractive, so love finds its place in a secondary theme. The title of the last book in the location series, Death at an English Wedding, brings the romantic undercurrents to a romance novel’s HEA conclusion.

Now I’m into Elusive, book one in On the Run International Mysteries— Sara’s earlier contemporary series. I miss the English countryside, but the plot works, and the descriptions of the international cities hold the reader. The narrators of the other Audible series were better than the current reader.

My other recent reads include Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche by Nancy Springer. In this first book in her series, Enola is the sister of Sherlock Holmes—how about that interesting story concept. I’ll read a second since I liked all Colen Dole’s stories; Bill Summers by Stephen King was good with a hired killer as the protagonist; My Dyslexia by Philip Schultz caught my attention since we share that affliction. He and I grew up with it undiagnosed, and we had similar grade school experiences.

I’ve also binged on five of Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailer Mysteries. While enjoying them, I wondered how this small British village could have repeated serial killers so frequently. Simon, a DCI and the series’ detective, is in and out of relationships, unable to sustain a love affair. Hill’s subplots include Simon’s sister, a physician with patients worked into every novel. Their diseases, Simon’s chaotic love life, and the repeated serial killer theme eventually took me away from the series.

I added Chirp, a second audiobook streaming application with less expensive downloads.