To Helen Back by SUSAN McBRIDE

- What a fun new series! I felt like I was in the little town of Mayberry with Jessica Fletcher. Helen Evans is a widow who lives in the small town of River Bend, Illinois. The big to-do in town right now is that Milton Grone is selling some land for a big water park development. This has the town up in arms. While the whole town is at a town meeting, Milton Grone is hit over the head at his house and killed. The list of suspects is not short. He was not what you would call a loved man. Even the town minister can't find anything nice to say about him (and for lots of reasons that we find out later). Helen finds herself involved in the search for the killer. She doesn't want to believe it's anyone she knows, especially Felicity, Milton's next door neighbor and a good friend of Helen's. Helen is a crossword puzzle lover and as anyone who solves them knows, especially in pen, it can lead you to very good clue solving

이 책도 코지 미스테리 장르이고 여러편이 출판된 시리즈물이다. 75세의 여자분이 사건을 해결하는 어디서 비슷한 인물을 본 듯한 느낌이 드는 작품이다. 물론 아가사 크리스티의 미스 마플같은 ... 시대나 장소의 배경이 다르고 성격도 좀 다르지만 그런 느낌이다. 읽을 만한 책이다. 다만 내용을 떠나서 읽는데 어려울 수 있다는 점을 고려하길 바란다.