Review: No More Brothers by Susan Russo Anderson
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2012
I received a gift copy of the novel for purposes of review.Serafina Florio is a widow living in a small Sicilian village with her children and grandchild. For Serefina life is busy and complicated.  No longer able to spend at will she must guard her finances, keep her budget in line, deal with children who have problems of their own, and just for a little stipend on the side, solve mysteries. After all who but the town midwife would know more about the comings and goings in a small rural village?Finding a body on the shore Serafina sets out to solve the murder while she enjoys a small flirtation with the medical examiner with whom she shares a secret. With an inept and rush-to-judgement police chief, a town full of gossip and intrigue, Serafina has her work cut out for her.This was a short story of around 100 pages, that did what a short story is supposed to do. The reader is given enough background on the protagonists to make them interesting and complex characters while moving the story forward and not bogging down with details of back stories.  The novella moves at a fast pace and the pages almost turn themselves. Not a story you will want to put down once you begin. The writing is good, the dialog is crisp and realistic and the mystery is well defined with just enough clues and red herrings  to keep the reader intrigued.I will recommend this one to my friends.Karen Bryant DoeringParents' Little Black Book