I have had fellow blogger, Noelle Granger, book, Death in a Red Canvas Chair, on my kindle for about a year. What with books I had to read for my research and book club I just couldn’t get the time to read it until the few days I took off over Christmas and it was worth the wait.
Although this is not Noelle’s first published book it is the first in her mystery series of Rhe Brewster, a woman just like you or I. Well that is if you are a woman and perhaps not quite like me as she gets embroiled in solving the mystery of the body she finds at the end of her son’s soccer game at one end of the field.
Rhe is a nurse, a mother, a wife and lover (to the same man) and girlfriend. She is a normal woman with a larger than life curiosity and luckily a brother who is head of police who likes Rhe’s advice, and being a nurse she can also wheedle her way in with the medical examiner. She’s also at home on the university campus where her husband teaches.
Reading Death in a Red Canvas Chair I was reminded of my enjoyment for Janet Evanovitch’s number series with Stephanie Plum who was a bail bond agent who always got into scrapes. The similarity lay in the ordinariness of the protagonist (Rhe/Stephanie) which as a reader you can relate to your own life such as coffee drinking, juggling family and job, confidences with girlfriends, food, (I loved Rhe she was a cook like me), the easy coversational tone of the narrative which as a reader you can’t help but be drawn into and a storyline that moves with action from one scene to the next.
They often advise when writing, to write what you know and I think Noelle has done this well drawing on her knowledge of medicine, sailing and observer of human life.
I would classify this book as a light, easy and enjoyable read particularly if you enjoy a mystery. I’m wondering if it will take me another year before I can get to read Noelle’s sequel Death in Dacron Sail as I look forward to more adventures with Rhe.
Wonderful. I bought 2 of these for gifts this year (and a third–Dacron Sail) when the first was loved so much. ❤️
Sorry it took you so long to get to the book. I feel your pain. That happens to me more often than I’d like to admit.
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Sarah, I am so glad to hear this! Love it when my books get spread around!
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That’s great Sarah. Yes the pain is there. I have a list a mile long what with Anne’s recommendations and of course her own book, and dacron sail. Next though is Geoff’s.
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Thank you, Irene, for the lovely review. I’m glad you enjoyed my book, and I am ever grateful for reviews. Hope you get to book #2 before book #3 comes out this spring! Remind me and I’ll send you copies of each!
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You are welcome. I enjoyed it and look forward to reading the next but I’ll be pushing it Noelle to get there quickly. Though you never know. I have deadlines in my head which will give me some free time throughout the year.
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Sounds like a great series and I need to read it as I downloaded my purchase earlier after reading another review. Thanks for the reminder!
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You’re welcome Charli. For some of those minutes you have spare. 🙂 snuggle up with the book and keep warm.
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Thanks, Charli. I am going to include a Foreword with the third book to introduce the characters again and bring readers up to snuff on what’s happened earlier.
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