Liza Tully: The Forty-Year Grudge
Merritt & Blunt #2
Two books in, this has already become a favorite series. Everything about this series sparkles – the characters, the storytelling, and the setting. The two central characters are 60 something Aubrey Merritt, a world-renowned private investigator, and her young, green, recently married assistant, Olivia Blunt (who, it must be said, does the lion’s share of the work). Blunt is in training to become a detective but so far Merritt is a bit scornful of her talents. She is eager, thorough, and good at research, however, and she arrives at the solution at *almost* the same time Aubrey does.