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Reviewed by Carine Engelbrecht for Readers' Favorite
In The Boys of Sabbath Street, Shelly Reuben has created a mystery that is cozy in every sense of the word. Following a series of scandals, the little town of Calendar has come to adopt a rather unusual form of local government, in the person of its mayor, the magician Artemus Ackerman. When a series of fires on the controversial Sabbath Street threatens to derail a cherished mayoral initiative, Artemus asks his assistant Maggie Wakeling to investigate the cause of the fires. In the line of duty, she encounters an interesting cast of townsfolk and even has to navigate her way through a sprinkling of romance. These include an adventurous heiress, a pair of enthusiastic boy heroes, and a fireman with a rather unusual hobby.
If you can appreciate the charm of eccentric little towns and the assorted cast of intriguing characters that populate them, you will certainly enjoy the verbal exploration of the town of Calendar, as well as the random snippets about its residents that slip in all to frequently as the plot meanders along. In another kind of book, they might have been distracting, but Calendar is exactly the type of town where you want to be distracted by fascinating little tid-bits, as the town is as much a character as its slightly unconventional mayor and his assistant. And don't forget the art of magic, trickery, and delusion that forms the linchpin of the plot. In The Boys of Sabbath Street, author Shelly Reuben has created the type of town you might want to Google once you're done reading. What a pity there is no Facebook page for this unusual mayor to like or friend.
