Silence of the Hams (Jane Jeffry Mysteries, No. 7)

A good read, with a nice look at Jane's local scene.

Jill Churchill is an excellent writer and both of her mystery series are well worth the read. Fun ... enjoyable.

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Jill Churchill's mysteries are great. Jane Jeffry is the friend we all want to have.

After the last book was a bit of a dud, I'm glad to see that this one is back on the level of the earlier books in the series. Jill Churchill is a master at dialogue and she is terrific at creating interesting mysteries. The Jane Jeffry books are quick, witty reads that are sure to keep you turning the page. I love the normal everyday life of Jane and Shelley that makes them such realistic characters. This is such an enjoyable book series.

Before I start on this particular book, I will say that I love this entire mystery series. Jane, the main character, and her best friend and next-door neighbor, Shelley are the most fun characters ever. I love their light-hearted, fun, relaxed, and comfortable friendship. There is no competition or jealousies. Everything is perfect and peaceful. Jane, a widow, lives with her three children. Her house is the most cozy, loving house. Her children are good and stable. She's doing an excellent job raising them. Jane is a good example to follow. And this series is a very cozy series. It is fun and comfortable to read. My idea of coziness and comfort would be a thick pair of soft socks, thick fluffy pillows, and these books. If you are a cozy fan and haven't tried these books yet, I would recommend it. Even though I read a few out of order, it is always best, but not necessarily important, to read them in order.A new deli is opening in town. Jane's son Mike gets a job as a delivery person. Everyone comes to the deli when it first opens. The food is really good. This is a murder mystery, so you know what happens . . .Jane and Shelley want to know the truth. Of course, Jane's boyfriend the policeman doesn't want them to be interfering . . .There are so many pieces to this puzzle. So many facts and possibilities. So many potential leads . . . If you want a good challenging mystery to help Jane and Shelley try to figure out . . .While Jane and Shelley are figuring all this out, we go on adventures. There is graduation night party. There is interacting with Jane's kids. There is Jane and Shelley's friendship (which is the main event in these books). There is Jane and Shelley trying to figuring out the mystery. There is the new deli. There is Mike's delivery job at the deli. There is Mike's new truck. There is Jane's everyday cozy household events, such as grocery shopping and cooking, which would seem mundane and boring, but to me, is really some of the coziest activities ever (maybe because I love home and kids and domestic life).I enjoyed this cozy book!

If you're looking for a comfort read that will hold your interest and won't make you think too much, you can't do better than a Jane Jeffry. The grin-worthy titles, and the combination of suburban angst and snappy dialogue make them worth reading and overlooking the obvious clues to the killer.In Silence of the Hams, a dead man is found under an overturned rack of hams in the storage room of a brand-new deli in which Jane's son is working. Jane wants to solve the crime to keep her son from being murdered too. Naturally, a well-liked teen-aged boy would be in as much danger as a man everybody in town has a reason to kill, and there's a huge, glaring plot hole that makes the killer obvious, but as I said, overlook, overlook... Whether Jane is chaperoning her son's graduation festivities, fending off her MIL's advice or grocery shopping, she and Shelley are good company, and that's all I require of them.Ms. Churchill's strengths are in the delightful friendship between Jane and Shelley, her ability to describe the ordinariness of suburban life in a way that has every woman reader of a certain age nodding in recognition and turning pages to see what Jane and Shelley will do. The characters are somewhat stereotypical, but comfortingly so, and they make the Jane Jeffry mysteries some of my favorite comfort reading.This book isn't deep, nor challenging, nor especially literate (though Jane is fond of Dorothy L.) but it is an enjoyable few hours spent among friends.

Die Geschichte ist etwas komplizierter als sonst mit viel weniger Hinweisen, deshalb kommt die Lösung etwas überraschender, wenn auch nicht komplett aus dem Dunklen. Der Stil scheint etwas weniger liebevoll als sonst, auch wenn es seitenmässig das bisher dickste Buch ist. Dennoch unterhaltsam.

excellent book