A Reader's Notebook, Episode 4: Introducing McQuaid

Throughout this Notebook, you may find disclosures that give you clues to whodunnit. I’ll try to keep those to a minimum, and I’ll include this spoiler alert with every post, just to remind you that some of what I share with you (or you see in the comments) may help you solve the mystery. (But you could always be wrong, you know.😊)

Love, sex, mystery, and more.

If you’re a longtime reader of these books, you already know the overall romantic and family arc of the series. After some will-she-won’t-he fast-dancing in the first seven books, China and McQuaid finally get married in Lavender Lies (Book 8). They move (with McQuaid’s son Brian and—later—China’s niece Caitie) into an old Victorian farmhouse on Limekiln Road, where they’re still living (with Brian now in college) in Forget Me Never (Book 29).

But this book is their debut as a pair, and while McQuaid is ready to make it a permanent arrangement, China is markedly ambivalent.

Or maybe the ambivalence was mine . . .