As the third book in the Postmistress series, I really wanted to like it better than the first two. But there are so many things wrong with this book, beginning with buildings changing locations and growing larger. That's right - growing larger. In the last book, the drawings showed the post office, then buildings 1201 Main and 1203 Main on the corner facing the bank. In this book, it's 1203 Main, 1201 Main, and a much larger post office (now transposed to the corner and facing the bank) - attached to a community center that didn't exist before. Maybe others don't pay attention to details, but I do. And these details most certainly weren't in the previous book. You can't just change locations of buildings and make them larger on a whim. Not to mention I've never heard of a post office having a community center. That's just odd.

Secondly, supposedly there are three thousand people in the town of North Ashcot, but only one postal employee. They don't deliver mail, and we're supposed to believe that everyone goes to the post office to get it. Even if half are children, that's a lot of post boxes they'd need. This post office must be the biggest in the country to accommodate that many. Plus, can you imagine the lines of people picking up/mailing packages at Christmas? In fact, she wouldn't have time to investigate murders. She'd spend all her time sorting mail and putting it in the boxes. I check my mail every day, as do most people. I thought this was a town of about 100 people up until now. Now I understand some towns don't do home delivery - but with this many people you'd have to have more than one person and keep the post office open a lot longer to accommodate those that work during the day, not to mention disabled people would need their mail delivered. So, a town this size, with everyone coming into the post office every day to get their mail would take up an awful lot of time - and again, need more than ONE employee to do so.

When a professor is murdered Cassie blames herself because he wanted her to investigate threatening letters (which he should have taken to the police department if he thought his life was threatened) so nosy Cassie needs to investigate - again. While Cassie's in the perfect job for her, since she thinks post offices are fascinating, they're not. I really tried to like it, but sorry, I am so done with this series. ( )

Addressed To Kill is the third book in A Postmistress Mystery series;

Another exciting visit with Cassie Miller at the North Ashcot Post Office.

Valentine’s Day is quickly coming and a local band, The Ashcots are using the community room at the Post Office to practice for their upcoming Valentine’s Day dinner/dance at the senior center. After practice ended Dennis Somerville a college professor, comes into the post office and asks Cassie to look into a couple pieces of hate mail that he gotten which are evidently from students of his. She calmly tells him that based on what information he has given her about the letters there is nothing she or the post office can do. Later that day she gets a phone call from Sunni, the police chief, asking her to come to the police station as soon as she can. When Cassie get there, Sunni informs her that Somerville has been found shot to death in his home. Based on the post office receipt in his pocket, Sunni feels that Cassie might have been the last persons to see him alive and asks Cassie to relate his visit to the post office.

There have been a number of break-ins in the North Ashcot area and it’s thought to be a robbery gone wrong. Cassie has been asked be Mercedes, another professor at the same school, to do a presentation to her class on the Victorian history of Post Office. Cassie feels a certain amount of remorse at not helping Somerville and feels that doing the presentation will give her an excuse to be on campus and do some investigation into Somerville’s murder. But Cassie will find out she needs to find the murderer before her life is canceled.

Another well-crafted mystery and an interesting look into the workings of the postal system. Also included are interesting stories from the post office.

I will be looking forward to reading the next book in this series. ( )