A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT (Jeanne Dams)

I just can't get enough of Jeanne Dams' Dorothy Martin.  This series put the "cozy" in "cozy mystery" and Dorothy is a charming and realistic sleuth.  Her relationship with second husband Allen (she was widowed when she moved to England) is comfortable and passionate but tempered by the aches and pains of late middle age.  She has the intelligence of Miss Marple and, like the author, just a little quirkiness related to hats.  In this novel Dorothy and Allen are invited to a beautiful country estate for a Guy Fawkes celebration, where the worst storm in years knocks down centuries-old trees, decimates the garden, and cuts off power and communication.  Of course, a body is discovered after the storm.  To any mystery lovers delight, the skeletal remains are found entwined in the roots of an uprooted tree, so the death is not recent. Who is the body and who buried it under the tree?  Who else will turn up dead?  Of course we know that Dorothy and Allen will figure it all out!  This is a traditional country estate mystery and you won't be able to put it down.  It was a joy from the first page to the last!