Catch as Cat Can, by Rita Mae Brown

Summary: Something's rotten in the state of Denamrk city of Crozet, and various people (this series's ameteur detectives as well as the police) are determined to learn the truth. (Um, yeah. So far the only thing that separates this summary from that of any mystery is the location. That narrows it to one of about a dozen books. Maybe more. Lessee if I can come up with a summary that doesn't give away anything important. I suppose first I need to figure out what's important. Do I really need to say anything more? I've told you it's a mystery after all (or at least I will)) 

Reaction: Whee, mystery! I kinda knew who did it thru most of the book, but I had no idea how (and there's ~no way I would've guessed the truth). The solution in this book is similar to the one in the other one of this person's books that I've read, but knowing that doesn't exactly help me any in trying to solve things. And it's a general enough similarity that it can be chalked up to the constraints of a mystery series about a small town. All in all, this book was a reminder of how much I enjoy well-written mystery stories. And, better yet, this book had the feel of any random novel except for the fact that the main action was centered around crimes and trying to solve them. In short, I enjoyed this book immensely and want to read the rest of the series. And maybe it would be better to read them in order so that I wouldn't have to try to figure out little details of what the situation is (who is/isn't married to whom, for example), but it's not that important and I don't think I'd have the patience to do that, so I doubt I'll bother.