Hi! This is Rachel Malay, director at the Port Library in Beloit. The evenings are ever so slowly getting cooler, which always brings fall activities like football, pumpkin themed recipes, and more indoor activities like reading! Of course, my listeners know the library has over 25,000 books to choose from, but why not try a cozy type read to fit in with the cozier fall weather? For the next four weeks I’ll be reviewing books considered to be cozy mysteries – mysteries that have an element of domesticity and a focus on the relationships formed within the book instead of just grisly murder.
The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star is the fourth book by Susan Wittig Albert in the Darling Dahlias series. If Susan Wittig Albert sounds familiar, that is because she has two other cozy mystery series that the library carries. Set in the town of Darling, Alabama in the 1930s, the Darling Dahlias are a gardening club on the surface, but of course the ladies of the club can’t help but solve local crime problems. This time Texas aviatrix star Lily Dare is in town to put on an airshow during the local watermelon festival, but some nefarious meddler has sabotaged her airplane, but perhaps not without reason. Rumors abound about the affairs of Lily Dare, but the Darling Dahlias garden club comes around to get to the bottom of all the nasty rumors, and hopefully prevent any loss of life, whether on the ground or in the air. The back of this book has not only good southern recipes to try in the kitchen, but also some home beauty treatments popular in the 1930s and still effective today. So, even if the story itself seems to fall flat, you can try your luck with the recipes.
You can get the book reviewed here and more great titles to watch, read, listen to, or play with at the Port Library at 1718 N. Hersey in Beloit, on the North Campus. This is director Rachel Malay, saying “Thanks for checking us out!”
The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star by Susan Wittig Albert.
ISBN: 9780425260586, 304 pages.
Adult Fiction
The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star is the fourth book by Susan Wittig Albert in the Darling Dahlias series. If Susan Wittig Albert sounds familiar, that is because she has two other cozy mystery series that the library carries. Set in the town of Darling, Alabama in the 1930s, the Darling Dahlias are a gardening club on the surface, but of course the ladies of the club can’t help but solve local crime problems. This time Texas aviatrix star Lily Dare is in town to put on an airshow during the local watermelon festival, but some nefarious meddler has sabotaged her airplane, but perhaps not without reason. Rumors abound about the affairs of Lily Dare, but the Darling Dahlias garden club comes around to get to the bottom of all the nasty rumors, and hopefully prevent any loss of life, whether on the ground or in the air. The back of this book has not only good southern recipes to try in the kitchen, but also some home beauty treatments popular in the 1930s and still effective today. So, even if the story itself seems to fall flat, you can try your luck with the recipes.
You can get the book reviewed here and more great titles to watch, read, listen to, or play with at the Port Library at 1718 N. Hersey in Beloit, on the North Campus. This is director Rachel Malay, saying “Thanks for checking us out!”
The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star by Susan Wittig Albert.
ISBN: 9780425260586, 304 pages.
Adult Fiction
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