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Restored to Death (Judge Crain Bk 1)
Restored to Death - Judge Crain Bk 1
Author: Nancy Bell
Texas Toast — Between raising his precocious teenage daughter and dodging the matchmaking of the local busybodies, Jackson Crain devotes himself to the curious peccadilloes of being a judge in tiny Post Oak, Texas. Aside from the occasional brawl or beating, hard crime here is rare. That changes when Dora Hughes, Jackson's shrewish sister-in-law,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780373264964
ISBN-10: 0373264968
Publication Date: 6/1/2004
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 28 ratings
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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cranbery avatar reviewed Restored to Death (Judge Crain Bk 1) on + 530 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This was really a great book! I thought it would be just another cozy, but was totally surprised! Likeable characters, and a wonderful plot that just when you think you know all the answers, the author throws you a curve ball!
reviewed Restored to Death (Judge Crain Bk 1) on + 202 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Murder and other goings-on in a small East Texas town. Good feel for small-town life. Much more hard-edged than the author's "Biggie" series.
reviewed Restored to Death (Judge Crain Bk 1) on + 51 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I really wanted to like this book, but just couldn't. It is set in my "neck of the woods" and much of it rang true. But there were too many characters and the time sequence was often off. Things happened much too fast or too slowly to be believable. Also someone would do something that took one day in the book and another character would talk about it being a longer time period. The ending was nothing that could have been predicted from the story line (I know sometimes that's good, but trust me it wasn't) and the title had nothing to do with the story.
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Helpful Score: 1
First in series. I liked it.
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Timbuktu126 avatar reviewed Restored to Death (Judge Crain Bk 1) on + 476 more book reviews
I just read Cathy H.'s review before posting mine and all I really have to write is DITTO. She covered all of the points I would have- disconnected title, things happening way too fast, too many characters who had nothing to do with the storyline and were just thrown in there....but what annoyed me most was the ending- motive wasn't explained very clearly at all. As I was reading, I actually kind of liked the book, but after that ending I was annoyed that I'd wasted my time.


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