Sandra (mycatscanread) - reviewed on 9/11/2012 + 174 more book reviews

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In this first in Jeanne M. Dams Dorothy Martin Mystery series, The Body in the Transept is an Agatha Award Winner that introduces American Dorothy Martin who lives in the small cathedral and university town of Sherebury, England. She and her husband had moved there so that he could be associated with the university, but shortly after they moved, Frank died. Dorothy stayed on in their old, but cozy house with her cat she took in.

Dorothy has a natural ability for snooping around when things go awry, and on Christmas Eve at the cathedral, after a beautiful service, things did just that. Dorothy was leaving by a side entrance when she stumbled over something that just happened to be the body of Canon Billings with a heavy candlestick laying nearby. The police questioned Dorothy and she especially is in conversations with town Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt.

Dorothy has her own ideas about what might have happened and goes about her own investigation much to the disapproval of Nesbitt and the whole police department.

This is a wonderful start to a series that I intend to finish to the end. 5 stars for The Body in the Transept.

~SW

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