“Miss Julia Inherits a Mess,” by Ann B. Ross

Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl About a decade ago a television series began its run: Gossip Girl.  It was a teen drama based on a novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar.  Fictional lives, then, of a batch of adolescents, queen bees in their gossipy chess games.  It takes little imagination to add, say, fifty gossipy […]

“MISS JULIA ROCKS THE CRADLE,” BY ANN B. ROSS

Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough If you haven’t read any of Ann Ross’s Miss Julia series, you have missed a clever protagonist and delightful character with whom you could have become quite close. Miss Julia is a light-plotted Miss Marple with a touch of Jan Karon’s easy-going, Southern, genteel, feminine style (think Mitford series). Ms. […]