Barbara Z.'s Reviews > A Body in the Backyard

As so many of the books of this "cozy" genre deteriorate into meanness and family feuding, it is nice that, while Myrtle and her sheriff son Red have their differences, they also have a solid respect and familial love for one another. All the silliness of the previous Myrtle Clover books are represented - her non-romance with her bespectacled neighbor, the "sykick" out in the woods, the ornery drifter with roots in town. These aren't books I recommend to everyone, but as a heavy+ reader I love to lay aside the best-selling tomes and dusty classics for a spell, and keep things cheery, breezy and murderous in the winsome village of Bradley, NC.