{"id":1124,"date":"2013-09-29T21:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2013-09-29T21:20:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T03:20:59","slug":"denise-swanson-murder-of-a-stacked-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/denise-swanson-murder-of-a-stacked-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Denise Swanson: Murder of a Stacked Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the book Swanson fans have been waiting for \u2013 for fifteen books now, Swanson has resisted matching up her wonderful creation of Skye Dennison with a particular man.\u00a0 In this one (spoiler alert) Skye and Wally are finally getting ready to walk down the aisle.\u00a0 If you are a Facebook fan of Swanson or have read all the books, this won\u2019t come as a surprise.\u00a0 Swanson has always been an interactive author, arriving at her very first signing at our store with her mother in tow and giving the entire audience a personality test.\u00a0 For this novel, she posted photos of possible wedding gown, shoe, cake and flower choices online.<\/p>\n

\"stackedlibrarian\"<\/a>Her particular blend of her actual life skill \u2013 she worked as a school psychologist, just as Skye does \u2013 with humor and great plotting skills as well as a way with characters have made her books one of the most enjoyable cozy series around.\u00a0 These feel like they are someone\u2019s passion, not someone\u2019s assignment.\u00a0 That\u2019s always a happy mixture.\u00a0 That the telling of the stories seems so effortless is a tribute to her skill as a writer.<\/p>\n

This particular installment involves Skye\u2019s wedding, of course, but there\u2019s also a murder to kick things off.\u00a0 As Skye is sitting in the library trying to write her wedding vows, she witnesses an altercation between the (yes) stacked librarian and a too-persistent would-be suitor, who the librarian manages to dispatch very efficiently (and somewhat painfully).\u00a0 She and Skye have a chat about the line between right and wrong, and then Skye is on her way.\u00a0 The next thing she knows, the librarian has been found dead.<\/p>\n

The initial thinking is that her death was an accident, but this is a murder mystery and of course it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 Wally, the town police chief, has added Skye to the police roster as a psychological consultant, giving her a reason to sit in his investigations.\u00a0 This was a wonderful brainwave, as after fifteen books it\u2019s a stretch to think that school psychologist Skye keeps ending up involved in murders.<\/p>\n

As Skye and Wally attempt to plan their wedding while also trying to solve the murder before the ceremony takes place (so they can have a worry free honeymoon), the other parts of the book that make this series such a stand out come to the forefront.\u00a0 The cast of characters Denise has created through all her books are strong and she\u2019s really created a believable and interesting community for Skye.\u00a0 They add spice to every story, as do different members of Skye\u2019s family, who can serve as a help or a hindrance, or both, in the exasperating manner of actual family members.<\/p>\n

There are several red herrings and dead ends before Skye and Wally figure out whodunit, but the real nail biter in this book was whether Skye and Wally would make it down the aisle in a timely fashion.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to report, they do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the book Swanson fans have been waiting for \u2013 for fifteen books now, Swanson has resisted matching up her wonderful creation of Skye Dennison with a particular man.\u00a0 In this one (spoiler alert) Skye and Wally are finally getting ready to walk down the aisle.\u00a0 If you are a Facebook fan of Swanson … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-americancozy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}