Indigo as an Iris (Biscuit McKee #5) by Fran Stewart

Indigo as an Iris (Biscuit McKee #5) Reviews

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  Steven

  In Fran Stewart’s latest installment of the Biscuit Mckee Mystery Series, Indigo as as Iris, we are once again transported to the warm and friendly town of Martinsville, Georgia. By now, if you’ve read any of the books in this series, you will know that Martinsville is a warm, friendly place with which the reader can easily identify and even imagine him or herself living there. So as I sat down to read this book I felt like I was reconnecting with familiar places and long lost friends. Stewart has created a setting that equals to Jan Karon’s Mitford books in richness and character development. You’ll simply love these people and love Marmalade, our detective feline, who is always in the middle of Biscuit’s sleuthing.
  
  Things are not always quiet in this small northern Georgia town. Biscuit has had quite an adventurous life since becoming the town librarian. Despite it’s sleepy, small town charm, long forgotten secrets keep popping up from time to time as a reminder to the residents of Martinsville of a much larger world. So when a young woman named Susan comes into town looking for her father, the rumor mills begin to operate at full steam. Martinsville is not a place that keeps secrets once the cat is let out of the bag, so to speak. In addition to this, Biscuit’s sister, Glaze, has an ex-boyfriend sitting in jail who is plotting his revenge on Glaze through kidnap and extortion. Unbeknownst to Biscuit, her good friend Margaret becomes a pawn in this attempt for revenge.
  
  What I enjoyed most of all about these books is that you learn something new. Fran Stewart has a love for the environment, animals, gardening and herbal health. She skillfully weaves current information into the storyline that causes the reader to pause and think and possibly seek out more information on their own. Indigo as an Iris is a story of search and discovery, friendship and loss and the gratifying knowing that love weaves a tight knot between friends and relatives.
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  Arlene

  2.5 stars probably. I've got to stop picking up mystery series in the middle. Do the mysteries always get this slight as they go? Lots of book with only the last 30 pages having anything to do with the mystery. And not much of a mystery at that. The town and characters and philosophy (such as green funerals, food combining) were the bulk of the book, I'm not sure why she bothered tacking on the mystery.
• 
  Cindi

  Better and better with each book!
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  Karen

  Another good one from Fran.
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  Mililani

  The second book I've read by Fran Stewart. I think it would be better to read the books in order as she includes trailers that keep you wondering what will happen...in the next book.