This week the top pick was not my only book. In fact, despite the fact that the winning novel contained nearly 400 pages, I managed two other books. But C.C. Benison's Eleven Pipers Piping far outshone them.
Last March, the first book in the series took top honors. Today's pick represents the second in what will surely become a 12-part series featuring widower vicar Father Tom Christmas. In fact, Eleven Pipers lays the groundwork for the as-yet-to-be-released Ten Lords A-Leaping story.
A well-crafted plot intricately twines through this "cozy" introducing realistically drawn human elements that keep the story from becoming too cute or too brutish. Surprisingly, with a Father Christmas serving St. Nicolas church in a small village in England, the books, in spite of the titles, do not become pun-laden jokes.
I thought getting through this book would be hard slogging, but it reads quickly, perhaps because the story is so well-told.
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