Status Updates From Accident by Design

Most of the principle female characters are opining that a nine-year-old boy, who spent his toddler years in a prison compound in WWII Malaysia held by the Japanese and whose parents both just died in a horrific road smash, is a tiresome, whining little attention whore for being sick during a picnic. I have no idea if I'm supposed to agree with them or if this is an inverted "Who Killed the Assholes" plot...

In the broadest sense, I guess I have enjoyed Lorac's rural, "you can smell the hay and manure" whodunits more than her urban scenarios. This, then, has an edge over Bats in the Belfry and the like. It will be interesting to see who committed the murders here; the police have one or two people in mind - even after an Accidental Death ruling - and Lorac will no doubt be playing some bluffs...I think?

Always time for more Lorac. And Shorty September continues, with style…

Cw: child death

A big 'Shout Out' to the Bangor, Maine library for having this book available for Inter-Library Loan. Thank you for enabling me in my addiction to Lorac's mysteries.