Lynn Florkiewicz – Carol's Notebook

Author: Lynn Florkiewicz

Lynn Florkiewicz’ dream of becoming a writer began when she was six or seven years old back in the mid-1960s. Her head was always in an adventure book, but work, marriage and folk music took over and, at the time, she didn’t have the discipline to take writing seriously.

After a particularly debilitating illness later in life, Lynn took a writing course and began to have articles and short stories accepted by national magazines and newspapers. Having read hundreds of cozies over the years, she decided to create her own series and came up with the character of Lord James Harrington, Lord of the Manor and amateur sleuth.

She writes simply for the fun of it and launched the books on Kindle to see how Lord James would be received. She’s thrilled that others enjoy Lord Harrington’s adventures as much as she loves writing them.

The Christmas Mystery is the first of the Harrington series I've read. James and his wife Beth live in the small village of Cavendish and have converted the Harrington manor house into a hotel catering to the well-to-do. It's Christmas time and the Harrington's are hosting their annual Christmas dinner and participating in events around the village. Then one of their guests is killed, poisoned, and James, along with I assume are the regulars, decide to investigate. After all, they can't have people worry about ending up dead if the stay or eat at the hotel. This was fine. I enjoyed the Christmas in a small town setting. The solution to the mystery reached back to the Great War. A lot of folk in town either fought themselves or had relatives who did. It looks at PTSD and acknowledges that not everyone who was on the right side was a hero. Overall though, it was just fine. It works as a...