Crime and Clutter
by Cyndy Salzman
Published by Howard Books
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Reviewed by Peg Brantley
We all have a friend like Mary Alice. She's perfect. Her home is spotless, her children polite and well groomed. Nothing about her speaks of clutter or shame. Mary Alice is part of a group of women who many people first came to know in Dying to Decorate. Women who each bring their own unique gifts to form a bond of friendship every woman deserves, but few have. The Friday Afternoon Club provides continuity in lives disrupted by...well, life.
Crime & Clutter, a stand-alone story (one in which you don't need to read the previous book in the series to understand), reaches beyond the nice, safe, Nebraska lifestyle in current America, to the turbulent counterculture of the sixties. Salzmann weaves the choices of past into the heartache of the present with sensitivity and insight.
If you're looking for dead bodies and detectives, this may not be what you're looking for. But if you're looking for some new friends, who know a mystery when they see one and won't take avoidance for an answer, you'll enjoy Crime & Clutter.
And when you're done? You won't know whether to put it on your library shelf, or keep it with the cookbooks in your kitchen. Recipes to die for are included at the beginning of every luscious chapter.
Armchair Interviews says: Tasty story, tasty recipes.
Author's Web site: http://www.familyhavenministries.com