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The Recycled Citizen: A Sarah Kelling Mystery (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries Series Book 7) Kindle Edition

by Charlotte MacLeod (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 519 ratings

Book 7 of 12: Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries

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A “funny and exciting” mystery in the series featuring a husband-and-wife sleuthing team in Boston (Publishers Weekly).

Boston and its suburbs are stuffed with Kellings, and the city is about to get one more. Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn—a pair of amateur sleuths equally at home in back alleys as they are at black-tie balls—are about to have a baby. And if the child takes after his parents, he will be one of the cleverest infants in New England. But while Sarah is a month away from giving birth, she cannot let pregnancy slow her down—she has a murder to solve. A resident at one of Sarah’s Uncle Dolph’s homeless centers is found mugged and murdered on one of Boston’s seedier side streets. Someone at the shelter has been dealing drugs, and plans to frame Uncle Dolph for the murder. Now Sarah and Max must race to clear Dolph’s name, lest the newest Kelling arrive before his family honor can be restored.

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As funny and exciting as The Palace Guard and The Bilbao Looking Glass, MacLeod's new novel features Sarah and Max Bittersohn sleuthing again. Sarah's Brahmin but rather improper Bostonian kin, the Kellings, ask for the couple's help when Dolph and Mary Kelling's Senior Citizens' Recycling Center is in danger. One of the street people supported by the Center is killed and scandal threatens when Max finds heroin in the victim's distinctive tote bag, which has been provided by the Kellings for the cans that the elderly collect for recycling. There is a hilarious scene as Max and Sarah (now heavily pregnant) join gypsy cousin Theonia and other relatives, all in disguise, as they in spy on suspects in the Boston Public Gardens. Later, the villain strikes again, at an auction to benefit the center, and Max, using the skills he acquired as a detective specializing in art frauds, solves the two cases conclusively. In a double climax, Sarah gives birth to David Josiah Kelling Bittersohn. (January
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“Funny and exciting.” —Publishers Weekly “The epitome of the ‘cozy’ mystery.” —Mostly Murder “MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate and charming mystery.” —Publishers Weekly

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0099IRKM0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (October 2, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2609 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 273 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #207,180 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #802 in Mystery Series
- #2,678 in Amateur Sleuth Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #5,407 in Amateur Sleuths

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Charlotte MacLeod (1922–2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children’s book called Mystery of the White Knight.

In Rest You Merry (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. The Family Vault (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, The Balloon Man, in 1998.

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LindaH

One of My Favorites

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2015

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Wow, lots of questions. I had to re-order this particular book so, needless to say, it is one of my favorites. Charlotte MacLeod is in a class by herself. If you have never read her books, pick any book from Peter Shandy, Sarah Kelling or the Grub and Stakers. I would suggest, however, that you start with the first book in the Sarah Kelling series simply because there are a lot of relatives and it can get confusing. I believe "Family Vault" is the first. As to this particular book, a recycling center is set up to help less fortunates earn a small wage by collecting empties and turning them into the center which also supplies food and a place to come in out of the cold. I had to indicate that there is some violence because since this is a murder mystery someone had to die. These are cozy mysteries and do not contain graphic anything. Charlotte's books due contain a lot of giggles and enjoyment.

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MGS425

Love the whole bunch!

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2022

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Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn are fabulous characters. I have read and listened to nearly all the books at different times and have started back again. The writing is so good! Ms McLeod has a way with words and does such interesting things with vocabulary. Sarah is very pregnant throughout this and Max is Max. It is somewhat like reading but it's just so well written that you have to read it.

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Alison S. Coad

More Mayhem for the Kelling Family

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2023

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The very pregnant Sarah Kelling Bittersohn is drawn into a plan by her Cousin Dolph and his wife Mary to hold an auction of their home’s surfeit of items collected by generations of Kellings, both in order to clear out the house to some degree and to raise money for a housing project they would like to start, converting an old warehouse into senior citizens’ social housing. They are aided in this scheme by members of their charity, the Senior Citizens Recycling Center, an organization which sees poor senior citizens collecting cans and other debris and turning their finds into the Center for cash. The SCRC is run largely by volunteers and has also become a useful place to keep Osmond Loveday, once an employee of Cousin Dolph’s family and now superannuated but still dependent, busy. When Sarah and Max realize that there is more going on at the SCRC than meets the eye, and a senior citizen is found dead, apparently the victim of a mugging, the race is on to catch a killer before he strikes again…. The seventh book in the Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn series is quite the treat: it’s got everything from a muck-raking “journalist” who is not above creating a fracas to spice up his stories to a series of artworks made of seaweed, and a pregnant Sarah on top of it all! The Beacon Hill house has come back into the series this time around, which I am happy about because I like that setting, but as ever the real stars of the show are Sarah and her innumerable relatives, all of whom have either endearing or exasperating little quirks; recommended, but best to begin with the first book, “The Family Vault,” to get full value for your money!

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Well done by a Mistress of Mysteries

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016

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The kelling-bittersohn series is probably the most popular of the four written by MacLeod....deservedly so. She is a fine writer and these tales, mostly centering on the Kelling branch, give her many opportunities to combine her skill at gentle satire with a good deal of human interest and an interesting "feature" story. For regular readers, need only to offer reassurance that this is one you will want to read. To the new reader, I would only say, that if you are open to mysteries without juvenile sex-play (of people in all age groups) or grisly violence, this (and others) by MacLeod might well start you on the road to being an admirer and consumer of her many books.

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flora galbraith

Great fantastic reading.

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017

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I enjoyed the whole set of these books. They were so enjoyable and so well written that I felt like I knew them. What a pleasure to read and enjoy.

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2016

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Fun, Funny, very well written - altogether charming characters and plot twists. Kind of zany - you'll get hooked on this author and series.

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oldehf

As usual, a good read.

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020

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Helps if you've read earlier books, as there is a history of your lead characters and how they came together.
Our leading lady married an older widower which affects her entire life, until he and his mother are kill in a very unusual accident. Then found a new man in her life. You might want to keep a list of the players and how they interact.

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Adelaide

I enjoy every thing that Charlotte McLeod has written.

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2019

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I have read almost everything that Charlotte McLeod has written. Some of the series are a little to farcical for my taste, but even then I enjoy the characters and the story. I really like the Sarah and Max stories.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2016

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Colin Hutchison

Enjoyed the book overall characters were well developed and for ...

Reviewed in Australia on February 7, 2015

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Enjoyed the book overall characters were well developed and for me the ending had a bit of a twist at times a bit long winded

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Not my cup of anything

Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2020

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It’s not too hard to tell if I’m enjoying a book. If I check more than once or twice on what percentage I’ve read, I’m not having a good time and I checked on the percentage almost every page. The fact that I completed “The Recycled Citizen” comes down to pure blamed cussedness. I paid for it {although nowhere near full price}, and damn it, I was going to finish it or die trying. I almost did.

What kind of drug kingpin would place his product in old aluminum cans ready to be recycled, toss the can on the street, wait for some unsuspecting homeless person to come along and add the loaded can to their recycling collection, and the have one of their henchmen steal the can back from the homeless person??? This is the premise of the book. My advice - don’t bother trying to figure out why.

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