Short Reviews of Several Cozy Mysteries

The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill is the first in the series.  Barbara Evans retires from her law career and moves back to her small Michigan hometown, and is getting restless.  Her sister, Faye, has lost her job, and with a disabled husband needs to find another.  Faye decides they should open a detective agency, and talks Barb into it.  Their first big job is to find a woman's brother, who had been missing for several years--his wife had been murdered then, and he was the main suspect, when he disappeared. 

Another sister, Retta, is a state trooper's widow.  She helps the other two with information she can pick up from her wide social circle.  She would like to be a part of the detective agency, and not left out.  The book was set up so one chapter was from one sister's viewpoint, and the next was from another sister's viewpoint .  This highlights the different personalities of the sisters.

I enjoyed the book, it was a fairly easy read, although I did suspect who the culprit was.  I especially like that fact that the story takes place in my home state, Michigan.

3 Sleuths, 2 Dogs and a Murder also by Maggie Pill.  This is the second in the series, and I enjoyed it fairly well.  The two older sisters run a detective agency.  The youngest sister, Retta, is a widow, and has just started seeing Winston Darrow.  She finds out that he is married only when he becomes a suspect in his wife's murder.  She doesn't think Winston is capable of murder, in spite of his less than stellar character, and she and her sisters investigate the crime to prove his innocence. 

I mostly enjoyed this story, although there were a couple of things that were a little unbelievable, but I got past that. 

High Anxiety Dye Job by Molly Dox.  This is the third in the Annie Addison mystery series, and I haven't read the first two.  I didn't make very good notes on this one, and I don't remember it in detail.  Annie is a beauty parlor operator in a small beach town.This story took place during the off season.  There was a murder and some blackmail, very short book, about 50 pages long,  It was okay, but I'm not going to be looking for more of this series.