Lorna Barrett's A Just Clause

A Just Clause by Lorna Barrett 's 11th book in what is admittedly my most favorite long running cozy mystery series, is out one week from today on June 13th. There is something so captivating in this cozy series characters whom have become like a second family to me.  The characters in this series from main characters Tricia and her sister Angelica, to their friends and employees, and even the new generation of  Stoneham, feel so real and so relatable. This series chronicles so much of their lives, struggles, revelations and relations that I often find myself  thinking of these characters long after the story is done. I was truly surprised with the direction that Author Lorna Barrett took with A Just Clause,  the struggle for  Tricia and Angelica was more balanced  in this one, I found that where I had felt horrible for Tricia all these years, I  also found myself having sympathetic feelings for Angelica for even more deep reasons then I had ever considered in previous books.  Lorna created the most wonderful family out of some extraordinary characters for Tricia and Angelica and only in the last few books have we gotten to know their blood relatives.  I love the theme in the book of family being who you love and surround yourself with, and I even loved it more when  Tricia and Angelica's  dysfunctional parents join in the circle....okay it's more of a Venn Diagram but it sure does make for a great story!

  When I finished reading it last night, on the last word, out loud I said "Oh no!" Not because of how it ended but because it ended and now I wait in earnest for another visit to Stoneham and a visit with my friends in the Booktown Mystery series.

Just when things are getting back to normal in Booktown, Tricia and Angelica have their lives turned upside down by a shocking visitor from their past in this latest entry in Lorna Barrett’s New York Times bestselling series. Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth, is in for a surprise when her ne’er-do-well father, John, comes to town—and promptly becomes a prime suspect in the murder of a woman with her own scandalous past. Even Tricia’s faith in the old man is shaken when the Stoneham police break the news that her father is a known con man who has done jail time.  But what about bestselling thriller author Steven Richardson? Is it a coincidence that he arrived for a book signing just before the crime or that the victim was found with a signed copy of his latest bestseller?  From merlot to murder, Tricia is determined to clear the family name before another body shows up and ruins Stoneham’s first—and highly anticipated—wine and jazz festival.

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