Man, I really miss Steve Irwin & Mr. Rogers.

They are some of the "famous" people whose deaths feel really personal, as if they were family. Each time I see mention of them, I burst into tears. There are other famous people whose death feel personal, but I grew up with these guys. Death really gets to me even if I barely knew the person, even if I didn't know them at all. I don't mean only for famous people. Anyone. I've been told it is because I have a big heart, but does my mental health "glitches" play a part in how death basically triggers me into a melt down, depressive state?

At a party in honor of the movie based on Nadine's book, The Icove Agenda (detailing the case in Origin), the actress playing Peabody is found floating in the pool. The suspects are almost legion, since K.T. Harris wasn't exactly known for her easy-going and sunny disposition. But who would actually kill the woman? And the PI she hired to spy on the man who spurned her for the actress playing Eve?


Somehow I just didn't feel this one. Maybe it was the fact it was predictable (I knew who the killer was before the one-third mark), maybe it was the fact the killer's motive (for everything that happened) was beyond iffy, or maybe it was the fact the story lacked the usual chemistry between the characters (even Roarke and Eve left me strangely cold).

It was a good, solid story, but the tempo was odd and it lacked that "special connection", the "oomph" I was expecting with the whole movie-thing involved.

I really enjoyed this Cozy Mystery. I've given it a 4.5* rating. It pulled me in from the beginning and held me to the end. The heroine is a mystery writer and she can't help snooping into things. Along the way I had a few laughs to lighten things up. Look forward to more of her work.

I just found out that another celebrity that I'm a fan on has left us.

I grew up watching the movies of the generations before me, so Mickey Rooney is more important to me then most of the actors people my age generally liked growing up. I can't even name all the movies I watched he was in but nearly all of them are some of my favorites.

So goodbye, sir and thanks for the lovely memories.