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Murder by Mistake (Ellie Quicke Mysteries)

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loved this book. ellie is wonderful as usual. great story. good character development. interesting ending. this book is great just like all her ellie books.

I was in the mood for a mystery and picked this up at the library because it was short, just over 200 pages, and looked like a cozy. I believed I'd read other books in the series, but the blurb did not bring them to mind. About 20 pages in Diana, the daughter, pops up. Oh, yeah. Now I remember, I HATE this series.

Ellie is supposed to be coming into her own identity after her husband died and you see what she does to get out in the world from the cocoon she'd been living in. She has a spoiled, entitled and hateful daughter who demands and steals from her, tries to sell her property out from under Ellie. Ellie just dithers and luckily gets out of the worst of it, but takes no real action to stand up to her daughter and it just doesn't ring true.

In this book, Diana is getting married and decided without telling Ellie that Ellie's home is where the party will take place IN ABOUT A WEEK. Ellie says no, because she has another wedding there that SAME DAY, after paging forward, it looks like she gives in....AGAIN. Too much, I tossed the book in the return to the library bag, not going to waste more of my time on a dumber than dirt character.

I know this is fiction, but it pushes my buttons and doesn't make the series the light, fun read it should be for me.