Under One Roof: Lessons I Learned from a Tough Old Woman in a Little Old House

An unlikely friendship develops between the construction supervisor of a major mall development in Seattle and a stubborn woman who is in her eighties and refuses to sell her little old house that sits right in the middle of the development.

Edith Wilson Macefield has known so many well-known people in her life, so many that it seems like fiction. In fact, Barry Martin is constantly wondering if her stories true or made up. She escaped from a Nazi prison camp and she taught a dance to Mickey Rooney and that is just a tiny glimpse of her experiences... Even though her stories are startling and diverse, the true value of this book is that of friendship and learning how to treat seniors.

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Dying in the Wool

Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody

Kate, who's husband is missing and presumed dead in WW1, has a knack for finding people, but when asked to find her friend's father in a sleepy little village, who disappeared 7 years ago, she discovers that not everyone is who they seem and some of them are downright dangerous!

As her investigations continue into finding the whereabouts of Joshua Braithwaite, an aggressive, narrow-minded womanizer who was also the pillar of the local chapel, she questions his wife, Evelyn who was not sorry to see the back of him; Tabitha, his daughter, who blamed herself for not being there when he disappeared; Hector, Tabitha's fiance, who knew more than he admitted; as well as many others who have their own reasons for being glad that he was gone.

When someone is murdered at the mill, Kate sets out to find out whether there was any connection to Joshua's disappearance or if it was just a coincidence.

This is an old-fashioned mystery, set in the 1920's. The book was a little slow throughout and I had a little bit of hard time plowing through to the end.