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The Things That Make Us Who We Are (mystery book REVIEWl)

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Typically I respond to any hint of a book being a “cozy” (or “cosy”, if you prefer the British spelling) mystery in much the same way I approach certain other things which I hold in disregard, at best (or abject fear and/or great distaste, at worst)—Spiders. Liver (as a “food”, not a necessary part of my body).  Rats (as in, not the cute-&-domesticated variety).  Visits to the dentist.—I back away, shaking my head and wrinkling my nose from a safe distance.  You see, anything that smacks of being remotely twee—which is how I tend to view that subset of the mystery genre—holds little to no interest for me. (If, of course, so-called cozies are your bag, that’s totally cool.) It was definitely, then, with some trepidation—and a really hesitant trigger finger (hovering above the “buy now” button on Amazon)—that I deigned to purchase what was described as a (modern) cozy, John Bowen’s Death Stalks Kettle Street . (Point of fact, though, the description—and the recommendatio