Past & Present
A Marketville Mystery by Judy Penz Sheluk
MY REVIEW
Wow, let me tell you, this was a quick read for me because I
couldn’t put it down.
Being adopted, I think I identified with a lot of the
situations in the author’s story, but I think every person could say the same
about their past or the present in some manner. While some of us may have
wondered about our past, almost all of us have been fortunate to sit at the
feet of our parents hearing stories and memories of their lives and those of their
ancestors.
Sometimes though, when those people are gone, the memories
are gone too, and we realized there were many things we didn’t think to ask.
Some were kept from us on purpose; often this was due to the rigid mores of the
time. Moral attitudes that now, in the present, wouldn’t even cause someone to blink,
were kept hidden and never talked about in the past. Never talked about for so
long that they became almost forgotten.
Judy Penz Sheluk has come up with a story of the past and
the present that will make you feel every memory that her characters feel.
She’s invented a wonderful business called Past & Present Investigations
run by four great characters. Calamity Barnstable, while not totally new to
investigating, is unfortunately one of those people left alone to find out not
all was as she had been told in the past. But here in the present she realizes
that by adding her genealogy friend Chantalle, she can cover a lot of bases in
discovering the past. They add a couple more definite assets to their group,
one which is my favorite antique lady, Arabella, from the Glass Dolphin
Mysteries series.
Penz Sheluk has put together a group of well-defined,
vivacious characters to make one of
I can’t go on enough about this book. I have read other of
Penz Sheluk’ s books and she is a fine writer, but she has outdone herself in
Past and Present.
***This book was provided to me free of charge in exchange
for an honest review. All opinions are definitely my own.
This is Book 2 of Judy Penz Sheluk's Marketville Mystery series. She has another delighful series titled "The Glass Dolphin mysteries".
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Thank you so much for the great review, Kathy. It's wonderful to hear that it resonated with you. You have made my day! I'm also happy to answer any questions your followers might have.
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