Monday's Pick!

I read a great mystery this weekend entitled The Blood Ballad by Rett Mac Pherson.
The female sleuth, Torie O'Shea is a genealogist and head of the local historical society in her small town. Torie is out birding on the cliffs of the Mississippi River when someone starts shooting at her and her fellow birder. As they are running through the forest to escape they stumble over an antique trunk with a badly beaten body stuffed inside it. Soon afterward Glen Morgan, a musicologist,shows up at Kendall House, Torie's textile museum,with a copy of a recording of popular Morgan Family Players music. The twist is that these songs were really written by Torie's grandpa.
What I liked about this book was the many twists and turns in the plot between solving the recent murder and an unsolved murder of Belle Mercer that happened in the thirties. One of the songs on the recording was called "Blood Ballad" and it dealt with the confession of the killing of Belle Mercer. Another interesting thing about the book was that Torie was often visiting the local history department of her public library to look for documents to help her in solving these cases.

I'm on vacation this week but through the wonders of technology will still be posting reviews, so check back later in the week!