I love cozies and I'm a professional scrapbooker so this book was right up my alley...though for me the best part was the New Orleans descriptions, particularly poignant now...

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Quick read.

Enjoyable - classic Laura Childs.

My second Scrapbooking Mystery by Laura Childs. The New Orleans setting makes most all of it new to this midwesterner. Quite a different culture, though tied together by scrapbooking. Carmela has quite an imagination and often comes through with the answer as she busy's about gathering "clues". Surprise ending.

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Great sequel to the first book! I felt that the pace of this book was faster than the first. It took me one afternoon to read it, I was hooked from the beginning. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking for a cozy mystery with some great scrapbooking tips and recipes.

I enjoyed this one a little more than the first. This one was not quite as predictable, though I'm still not overly impressed with our "sleuth's" crime solving abilities. She's likable enough, ditz and all, and seems to have her wits about her when it comes to scrapbooking - the main (maybe only?) pull for me in reading this series - but in love and life and everything else, she seems to me a bit of a flake....

This was a more enjoyable read than the first; not as wordy (read: repetitive), though still some. There were plot revelations, especially close to the end, that simply made no sense to me. At one point, Carmella throws an angry fit, and it just seemed out of character to me. If I had been there live and in person, I'd have had a hard time not rolling my eyes at the scene.

I think I'm growing a like for Ava, Carmella's best friend. She adds candor to the story, and steps in to save her ditzy friend more than once. I'll probably read at least one more in this series, and maybe more, but only if I can get a hold of it through a deal in the Book Bazaar or if I end up with it in one of the great swaps going on in the forums. I won't be spending a one-for-one credit on any more of these, nor investing time in the Tea series by the same author.

Very "eh" for me, but I marked it a half point higher than the first, and high enough to still receive recommendations from the automatic generator based on it.

If you like New Orleans and scrapbooking you just might like this series. While it is light on scrapbooking tips/hints there is plenty of mystery and history of New Orleans. Although I tend to wonder with some of these cozy mysteries how the main character gets themself in these situations!

Excelent as always!
This one kept me guessing.
Carmela hosts a all night Crop Till You Drop.
And someone does...
Before the night is done her fellow shop owner next door is killed.
Was it some one at the Crop Party?
Read it and find out.
(*note* In the back of the book I read had a listing for
the next book in the series titled Scrap Trap (Nov.2004)
any ideas what happened to it? Can't find any info on it.)

Mystery. Carmela is hosting a late-night "Crop Til You Drop" session at her quaint French Quarter scrap-booking shop, Memory Mine. All the usual suspects have turned up to trim, decorate, color and gossip. But their all night crop comes to a screeching halt when a neighboring antique shop owner winds up murdered in the alley behind the cozy store.

Engaging mystery.

Has scrapping tips as well as some recipes!

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