Once again Violet stumbles over a body. This time it is a Red Inker who is to read during the Poe-try Reading during the Wine and Food Festival in Cascade Springs. Violet feels it is up to her to solve the murder so a friend won't be arrested on circumstantial evidence. David Rainwater keeps telling her to mind her own business but she doesn't listen and harm comes to her. Now there are more questions than answers in Violet's life and in the murder and secrets are revealed.

I am enjoying this series. I like Violet and adore Emerson. That is one cat who has a mind of his own. I am also enjoying the triangle of Violet, David, and Nathan. I know which way I want that to go. The recurring characters are great and a few new ones are introduced. The mystery was good. I, once again, did not figure it out until it was spelled out for me at the end! I look forward to more in this series.

So far mostly book reviews.

An incredibly vivid account of a dream that told Hughes to give up studying English because it was killing his ideas; his final  year at Cambridge was Archaeology and Anthropology, instead.

I read this many years ago, not long after publication and failed to get much from it. Now, with a much greater knowledge of Hughes, his life, work and approach to criticism, as well as more familiarity with some of the writers under discussion, I hope to gain more.