title: Crime and Clutter (Friday Afternoon Club Mystery Series #2)
author: Cyndy Salzmann
description: The second installment of Salzmans inspirational cozies (Dying to Decorate) finds the Friday Afternoon Club, a group of funny middle-aged women who love to cook, eat, and chat, helping Mary Alice clean out an old Volkswagen minibus that belonged to her mysterious father. The story veers back and forth between the womens present, and Mary Alices parents hippie past. The Friday gangs Christian faith sustains them as they gradually discover the difficult truth about Mary Alices dad, who abandoned her when she was a baby; Mary Alice must discover whether she can find it in her heart to forgive him. The plot is thin, and Mary Alices extreme shame about her father, which prompts her to do things like drop glass pitchers when his minibus is mentioned, seems over the top. The portrait of the commune in which Mary Alices parents lived is also a bit of a caricature (characters with names like Willow use the slang-term "bread" for money, quote the Beatles, and, in the name of love and harmony, want to deny medical care to pregnant women). But the likeable narrator, Elizabeth, will hold readers attention. Discussion questions and the recipes scattered throughout make this lighthearted mystery a probable pick of Christian book groups.
zlib_text: **Contents**
  
    1. [Cover](cover.html)
    2. Cherringham — A Cosy Crime Series
    3. The Authors
    4. Main Characters
    5. Murder by Moonlight
    6. Copyright
    7. 1\. The Rehearsal
    8. 2\. A Moonlit Lane
    9. 3\. Three Weeks Later
    10. 4\. Here We Come A-Wassailing
    11. 5\. A Walk in the Country
    12. 6\. It’s Not What You Know
    13. 7\. Questions for the Choir
    14. 8\. The Singing Suspects
    15. 9\. The Matter of Accounts
    16. 10\. Some Like it Hot
    17. 11\. Whodunnits
    18. 12\. Sweat the Small Stuff
    19. 13\. Home Sweet Home
    20. 14\. Company
    21. 15\. Suspicious Minds
    22. 16\. A Little Drive in the Country
    23. 17\. Cotswold Crunch
    24. 18\. Deep and Crisp and Even
    25. Next episode
  
   **Cherringham — A Cosy Crime Series**
  
  “Cherringham — A Cosy Crime Series” is a series made up of self-contained
  stories. A new episode is released each month. The series is published in
  English as well as in German, and is only available in e-book form.
  
   **The Authors**
  
   **Matthew Coste