3/5: “The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.” It’s the ultimate cupcake of a murder(s) mystery solved by a septuagenarian quartet in an upscale retirement village aided by a plucky detective, with no pretense of being “real”. It’s both adorable and lovely and funny — and yet has a touch of bittersweet that comes with the knowledge that time is going by but there’s still so much of life to want to live, but loss and loneliness and pain of ageing are never ...| www.goodreads.com
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard OsmanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “I am learning that it is important to stop sometimes, and just have a drink and a gossip with friends, even as corpses start to pile …| books are life