Should Have Played Poker

This was a fun mystery book I loved the characters in the book Carrie is an attorney that was raised by her father Her mother left when she was a child Carrie never understood why she left Years later she shows up at Carrie s office with an envelope Carrie isn t ready to read what her mother wrote so she puts the envelope away Carrie s father is suffering from dementia at a local retirement center Carrie is visiting her father when someone is found dead in the retirement center The inve This was [...]

A fun read I chose only because I had just learned to play Mah Jongg and that was one of the subject headings A good complicated plot with likeable characters Mostly takes place in a retirement home I would others by this author.

Human interest, humor, bits of romance and sustained mystery You ll never guess who did it

Charlotte Martin walks back into her daughter Carrie s life after a 26 year absence, but before Carrie can get any real answers about why her mother left her, Charlotte is murdered The scene of the crime is the Sunshine Village retirement home where Carrie s father, a former preacher in the early stages of dementia, now resides.Detective Brian McPhillip, Carrie s former boyfriend, is assigned to investigate, and sparks still smolder Add a little jealousy when Michael Shapiro, a widowed lawyer Ch [...]

For me, the title of Birmingham based author Debra H Goldstein s newest mystery doesn t quite ring true You see, quite a bit of Goldstein s book focuses on a group of Mah jongg players, which can get a bit troublesome if, like me, you have no concept of how the game is played But I don t know how to play poker, either I d have done better with a book titled Should Have Played Uno or perhaps Should Have Played Go Fish Even Rook would have been easier to comprehend But I digress, and I m For me, t [...]

Great New Series I picked up this book while trolling through cozy mysteries on The cover caught my attention reading the first few pages on the Look Inside option made me decide to take a chance download this book I really enjoyed it, reading cover to cover in one sitting The book really starts out with a bang with the appearance of Carrie s long missing mother That first chapter hooked me immediately Carrie is an interesting character, having started her career at the Great New Series I picked [...]

Carrie Martin has to balance her law job and visiting her father at the Sunshine Village retirement home She is upset when her mother shows up out of the blue after 26 years of abandoning the family.Her mother leaves her with a sealed envelope and that she once considered killing Carrie s father Carrie wants answers about her past from her father but before she can reach his room she finds her mother murdered and the women who cared for her injured Carrie efforts to discover who would want to Ca [...]