Domestic Mysteries

I've discovered a new genre of fiction, and I'm dubbing it, "Domestic Mysteries."  They are murder mysteries where the main character is of the highly domestic type.  I love them and that makes me such a nerd!

The first one I found just by chance on the shelf when looking for another book.  The main character has a home business selling homemade soaps. (Apparently this is the second in the series, and the first one was more about soap and called Lye in Wait).  In Heaven Preserve Us the mystery revolved around home canning.  Though it did talk about some of the characters' other domestic forays as well.  The main character is volunteering at a local helpline, and after getting a strange call from a suicidal man (that her boss calls a hoax, and hangs up on) she starts getting stalked around town, and her boss ends up dead.  I read this one earlier in the summer, and don't remember the story in as much detail, but I definitely remember it getting intense, and wondering how she'd ever make it out alive!

I picked up A Deadly Grind, from  my library's "New" shelf last week.  In this book the main character is collecting vintage Pyrex, and kitchen tools and adapting vintage recipes to write her own cookbook.  She picks up this vintage Hoosier cabinet at an antiques auction, and realizes she may have brought home more than she was bargaining for.  This book seemed to be kind of predictable at first, until I realized that all my predictions were wrong!  So I really enjoyed having that surprise. 

I haven't read mysteries for a while, so it was really fun to read a few, and yes, I thought it was really fun to read books about people with my same quirky hobbies!  And a great bonus is that both these books have recipes in the end.