I just won this book from
Callapidder Days, I'm so excited. Is there anything better than a free book?
The following is a review of it from BN.com
Over two decades ago her Mennoite family disowned Marie Koeppler when she married Jep Quinn, an outsider. She left Sommerfield, Kansas with her spouse knowing she will never see her parents again. She gave birth to Beth, became a widow and never returned she lives with her daughter in Cheyenne, Wyoming. When Aunt Lisbeth dies, she leaves her estate to Beth. However, for Beth to inherit the house and café, she must live in Sommerfield for three months. Though she expects a shunning even from her mother, who never claimed her granddaughter as kin, Marie and Beth agree to try it. However, just after they arrive in Sommerfield, thefts occur the locals blame Beth while Marie investigates to prove her daughter and her are innocent. Even Henry Braun, who came to Cheyenne to tell her Lisbeth died and whom loved Marie when she fled over twenty plus years ago, thinks either her and or her daughter are the thieves. Though she still owns his heart, he also refuses to allow BYGONES to move on as he fears she will break it again. --- Readers obtain a deep look at the modern day Mennonites in Kansas when a former resident returns home knowing she belongs there, but also assumes she will never be accepted as part of a community that condemned her for marrying an outsider. The cast brings to life this teriffic family drama as Marie and Beth try to do what is best for the other even sacrificng their own needs. The mystery and romance, though both well written and key elements of the deep story line, play supporting subplot roles to the prime theme of you apparently can’t go home even to Mennonite Sommerfield once you have left. --- Harriet Klausner
Christian Fiction - Historical
This is Book 6 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. I've read the first five, but had started getting bored with them. Now a year later I'm picking up the series again and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Reading these books is like traveling to Africa. Alexander McCall Smith actually paints a vivid picture and you feel as though you can see, hear and smell everything. The characters are painted so vividly I feel as though they are friends of mine, each with a distinctive voice and personality. Picking this up again after a break was like coming home. In this volume Mme Ramotswe lays to rest an upsetting part of her past, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni gets a new employee who proves very helpful and Mme Makutsi finally meets her man.
