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I'm a fan of cozy mysteries: Miss Marple, Brother Cadfael, Mma Ramotswe, Alan Grant, and Flavia de Luce are guaranteed to bring pleasure. Especially if they are read with a steaming pot of tea while sitting on a leather couch with a fire snapping close by.

In Winter Watch, Anita Klumpers has written what I call a cozy-eccentric book. Barley, Wisconsin, is a isolated northern burg where the Justice of the Peace is also the dog catcher and where a few crazies reside. Bernice, a miscreant referred to as the resident killer, is the battiest of them all. After a family member dies, Bernice gets meals and kindness and concerns. And wouldn't you know, she likes the perks of grief. More relatives mysteriously die. Sympathy can be mighty addicting.

Like Alexander McCall Smith, Klumper weaves humor into the warp and woof of her prose. Blizzards are snowstorms with enthusiasm. A woman was proud to give her son a Biblical name—Tubal—until the nurse told her it sounded like a female medical procedure.

There is comfort—"I like a woman who knows her way around an egg."—and a passage about joy so lyrical it makes me both nod in agreement and yearn in anticipation:

"Joy arrived unbidden and unpredicted to pour from heart to fingertips to toes. She held her breath, every time, to preserve and examine it but it forever danced just out of her grasp and slipped away. Claudia stayed still, focusing, her heart ready to burst. At the last crucial second joy seeped through cracks and crevices of her being until her every extremity and pore rejoiced before the evaporation worked backwards and she sat in the afterglow."

The focal point of the narrative centers on an old watch. The prologue and epilogue added more layers of history regarding the watch. The story line had me eagerly turning the page, and a bit annoyed with life's beckoning demands when I needed to put the book down.

In short, this is a satisfying and entertaining read.


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Winter Watch Anita Klumpers 9781940099460 Books Reviews

I first learned about this book from a past Prairie Wife of the Week, Donna Boucher. She has a blog called Quiet Life that I just love, and I stop by every week. She mentioned that one of her friends had recently written a book. The book, Winter Watch by Anita Klumpers intrigued me for several reasons. I am usually not interested in mystery’s but, I like the link Donna made between the real death of Anita Klumpers’ grandfather and the plot of the book. It made me want to see how Anita changed the story. I also liked that Anita was a fellow Wisconsin girl. So I got the book on my and snuggled under the covers and started to read…and read…and read until I just couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer.

The main character is Claudia, a strong woman who is abandon at a gas station by her boyfriend. She is slowly but surely welcomed into the town, and quickly becomes involved in the lives of several of the more eccentric characters. Her love interest is a pillar in the community (and the local dog catcher), and Klumper’s writing keeps you guessing as to whether there really is something there, or if we are just imagining it. I was instantly drawn to Claudia and found her likeable and just flawed enough to be relatable. The mystery gets deeper as the book continues, and soon a murderer is afoot in the snowy winter town of Barley, Wisconsin. Anita wraps up the story in an unhurried fashion, wrapping up all the loose ends in a realistic way. I started the book somewhat interested, and ended it in love with the characters, and their town. Anita hinted in her interview that there might be more adventures coming, and I can’t wait to read more about Barley, Wisconsin!
If I drove up to northern Wisconsin right now, I’m sure I’d find the supposedly fictional town of Barley, just as the author described it in this book. I’d be able to identify each person--Ezra, Ann, Philip, Felix, and more--plus landmarks, from Blossom’s Bar and Grill to the Weary Traveler Bed and Breakfast to Amos’s house. Yet there’s no heavy-handed description. It’s just woven in adeptly enough to enhance the scenery and make this place come alive.

The setting, humor, and witty dialog befitting of each character would’ve been enough to hold my interest, but on top of that is the mystery of the watch, a family heirloom that really belongs to somebody else. Claudia, the protagonist, is determined to find its rightful owner. Of course, things get complicated with vandalism, the arrival of Peter, and a murder, escalating the suspense into a nerve-racking climax.
And then there’s the romance spinning through it all.

I also loved learning about the history of the watch, gradually revealed through the story, as well as in the prologue and epilogue.

I live in Wisconsin so the next time I drive up north, I’m pretty sure I’ll be looking for “Barley.” The book was so enjoyable that I didn’t even mind reading a winter story in May.
I'm a fan of cozy mysteries Miss Marple, Brother Cadfael, Mma Ramotswe, Alan Grant, and Flavia de Luce are guaranteed to bring pleasure. Especially if they are read with a steaming pot of tea while sitting on a leather couch with a fire snapping close by.

In Winter Watch, Anita Klumpers has written what I call a cozy-eccentric book. Barley, Wisconsin, is a isolated northern burg where the Justice of the Peace is also the dog catcher and where a few crazies reside. Bernice, a miscreant referred to as the resident killer, is the battiest of them all. After a family member dies, Bernice gets meals and kindness and concerns. And wouldn't you know, she likes the perks of grief. More relatives mysteriously die. Sympathy can be mighty addicting.

Like Alexander McCall Smith, Klumper weaves humor into the warp and woof of her prose. Blizzards are snowstorms with enthusiasm. A woman was proud to give her son a Biblical name—Tubal—until the nurse told her it sounded like a female medical procedure.

There is comfort—"I like a woman who knows her way around an egg."—and a passage about joy so lyrical it makes me both nod in agreement and yearn in anticipation

"Joy arrived unbidden and unpredicted to pour from heart to fingertips to toes. She held her breath, every time, to preserve and examine it but it forever danced just out of her grasp and slipped away. Claudia stayed still, focusing, her heart ready to burst. At the last crucial second joy seeped through cracks and crevices of her being until her every extremity and pore rejoiced before the evaporation worked backwards and she sat in the afterglow."

The focal point of the narrative centers on an old watch. The prologue and epilogue added more layers of history regarding the watch. The story line had me eagerly turning the page, and a bit annoyed with life's beckoning demands when I needed to put the book down.

In short, this is a satisfying and entertaining read.