JERUSALEM INN - Martha Grimes

From the back of the book: A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury--until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm and a bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging holiday spirit. But the next time Jury saw her, she was cold--and dead.

Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocratic sidekick wasn't faring much better. Snowbound at a stately mansion with a group of artists, critics , and the idle-but-titled rich, he, too, encountered a lovely lady...or rather, stumbled over her corpse. What linked these two yuletide murders was a remote country pub where snooker, a Nativity scene, and an old secret would uncover a killer..or yet another death.

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Ahhhh....this is probably my most favorite series to read. I keep very few books for re-reads, but this series is a keeper on a shelf down in the mancave. All of Martha Grimes' books are on the shelf, but these are definite re-reads. I have a crush on Richard Jury and one on Melrose Plant. The series is a neat mixture of a Brit police procedural and a cozy/amateur sleuth since Jury works with Plant on almost all of his cases. They somehow run into each other and they work it out.

I want Jury and Plant to find someone to love. It's kind of like on the old TV show Ponderosa/Bonanza, the boys find someone to call their own or potentially at least and that someone bites it at some point. I still have hope....

Four savory British beans....