In Victoria Hamilton's NO MALLETS INTENDED (Book four in
the Vintage Kitchen Mystery series)
Jaymie Leighton is making steady progress toward her goal
of publishing a vintage cookbook when her job restoring a
kitchen in the Queensville Historic Manor has her
encountering danger and a dead body.
I have come to rely on Victoria Hamilton to provide
charming, captivating books, ones that have a tendency to
entice me into a different, small-town world filled with
quirks and questions that keep me reading a bit longer
into the night than I ought to. Her mysteries are very
well-plotted, her characters appealingly vulnerable while
still tough enough to stand up whatever comes their way
(a difficult balance indeed).
NO MALLETS INTENDED is able to be read on it's own, but
as you might expect, a richer experience is to be had if
you start with the first book in the series and read on
from there. As always after finishing a great cozy read
like NO MALLETS INTENDED I am a bit dismayed that I need
to wait for the next book in the series, but in the
meantime I have Victoria Hamilton's newest brain child,
The Merry Muffin Mysteries to engage me. Victoria
Hamilton also writes the Teapot Collector series under
the pseudonym Amanda Cooper.
The Queensville Heritage Society is restoring the once-
grand
Dumpe Manor. While Dumpe relatives and society members use
the occasion to dust off old grudges, Jaymie Leighton
prefers to adorn the kitchen with authentic Depression Era
furnishings. A collection of vintage wooden mallets found
in
the house is a perfect addition to her display, but one
also
offers a late-night intruder the perfect weapon to knock
Jaymie unconscious before escaping.
Though the attack has everyone on edge, nothing is missing
from the house. Perhaps it was merely a vagrant who
thought
the place was still abandoned. But when Dumpe Manor’s
resident historian is murdered with a mallet from the same
collection, it’s time for Jaymie to turn up the heat on
the
investigation before someone else becomes history.
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