One for the Books: More than a mystery

One for the Books: More than a mystery

- Mary Louise Ruehr

I love a good mystery, and all of these are excellent. But each book also has something else going for it.

“I Died for Beauty” by Amanda Flower is the third in her Emily Dickinson Mystery series, but it can also stand on its own. Along with the mystery plot, it’s historical fiction with a definite sense of time and place.

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