” She has said to me many times that she would continue to write her books even if nobody read them, because she really enjoyed doing them,” Baxter (MacLeod’s sister) said. “It was a very exciting and satisfying thing for her to produce a novel.” (Exactly the way I feel about my humble little blog)

Mystery novelist Charlotte Macleod died last Friday. I only have a handful of mystery writers for whose names I search the shelves when I go to the bookstore. Macleod was one of the handful. I especially enjoyed her series of books about Bostonian Sarah Kelling and her eccentric family. I tend to like books with eccentric characters.