Beetles in the Boxcar by Joyce Oroz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the second book in two days that I have read in the Josephine Stuart Mystery Series. I chose this book because I liked the first one so much and this one didn’t disappoint. I seem to be reading them out of sequence but it doesn’t matter. Josephine’s elderly aunt comes to live with her but this aunt defies the word elderly and keeps Josephine hopping trying to keep both of them out of trouble. They both share a nose for snooping out trouble. Every time I thought I had things figured out I was lead in another direction. Josephine and her crew are mural painters and she never hesitates to get her crew and family involved in her capers. I suspect her mother used to be Josephine when she was younger. I can’t wait to read the rest of the books in this series. Beetles in the Boxcar is well written and will take you on a journey of tracks and whistles. Enjoy.

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Shaking in Her Flip Flops by Joyce Oroz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I got this book because it was a free offering. I read this book because I couldn’t put it down. The name Josephine made me wonder if the book was something set in the historical error but it couldn’t be farther from that. Josephine is a talented, snoopy painter with an array of friends that make you want to be a part of this circle of friends and family. It has you wondering why in the world someone would trust picking up someone along the side of the road and take them home, but that is what Josephine does which leads her into a mysterious world of weird characters, murder and trouble with the law. Just when you think you have this mystery figured out the author throws in another curve for you to follow. And follow it I did. I didn’t see the ending coming. I laughed, I held my breath and I kept on reading long into the night. I will go so far as to say I loved this book and can’t wait to pick up another one that I bought that is on my kindle by this author. Oh, and I love Flip Flops.

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Pushed Too Far by Ann Voss Peterson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This thriller kept me riveted from the first couple of pages until the end. How could someone that is dead be found dead years later, again? This book weaves a tale that keeps us suspicious of everyone, feeling someone is innocent and then….maybe they are guilty. Will the former Chicago native that moved from the Chicago Police Department to the small town in Wisconsin be up to solving the crime or will her heart and shaky body get in the way? Graphic at times but not overly off putting this book tweaked my sense of mystery and suspicions and kept me guessing until the very end.

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