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Review Date: 3/28/2009
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"This is one of Christie's best mysteries. It has a great twisted plot with lots of surprises to keep you in suspense. People of several ages, professions, and British classes are invited to an isolated island by devious means only to find that their host and hostess, Mr & Mrs U. N. Owen never arrive. Shortly after all have settled in, the butler plays a recorded message charging that each of those present in the house was a murderer and though they could never be delivered to rightful justice under British law, justice would now be served. Of course each denies the charges against themselves, but to the child's nursery rhyme of Ten Little Indian Boys, each meets his or her fate and death. As the death toll mounts, the remaining victims search frantically for the killer and a way off the island. Tension builds amongst them until they realize that the person killing them off one by one has to be one of them. Who is the real U. N. Own and how can they find him and save themselves? A suspensefully great story with a really astonishing ending."
Review Date: 3/28/2009
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"This is one of Christie's best mysteries. It has a great twisted plot with lots of surprises to keep you in suspense. People of several ages, professions, and British classes are invited to an isolated island by devious means only to find that their host and hostess, Mr & Mrs U. N. Owen never arrive. Shortly after all have settled in, the butler plays a recorded message charging that each of those present in the house was a murderer and though they could never be delivered to rightful justice under British law, justice would now be served. Of course each denies the charges against themselves, but to the child's nursery rhyme of Ten Little Indian Boys, each meets his or her fate and death. As the death toll mounts, the remaining victims search frantically for the killer and a way off the island. Tension builds amongst them until they realize that the person killing them off one by one has to be one of them. Who is the real U. N. Own and how can they find him and save themselves? A suspensefully great story with a really astonishing ending."
Review Date: 7/14/2009
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
"A long satisfying story of medieval England, Knightly chivalry, intrigue and enduring love. Lots of colorful characters add to the plot of a Knight's steadfast love for his lady through her arranged marriage to an amoral, crude neighboring Lord who dispises her, the birth of her children, the Knight's years in France as a mercenary to raise money to buy land and purchase her freedom from her husband, and the fate that seems to keep them apart year after year. Lots of humorous situations, many caused by the feisty Gwennelyn as many of her antics and her stubborness try the patience of Rhys as he endeavors to claim her for his own wife."
Review Date: 5/4/2009
"This book is high quality and does have beautiful photos. Great ideas for transforming the highly utilitarian bathroom into an appealing retreat. From the powder room to the grand spa bathroom. I especially liked the bathroon done as an old Victorian English study."
Review Date: 7/27/2009
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"As usual this Kasey Michaels contemporary romance is funny with lovable characters. Baseball is the theme and a handsome superstitious catcher is the hero. The heroine is the girl who has loved him since they were in kindergarten. To break a curse that the hero believes is affecting his baseball career, he marries the hometown girl within hours of remeeting after 10 years of not seeing each other. Of course she's still in love with him despite trying to forget him. Throw in his tom cat and her pedigreed Persian cat, his twin brother and the brother's pregnant wife, other meddling relatives and friends, and an unexpected pregnancy and you have the makings of a delightful romance."
Review Date: 4/4/2009
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"This is the last book of the Beckets of Romney Marsh series and I would recommend reading earlier books first or you could find this one very confusing as most of the story and characters are based on earlier novels. I wish there had been a family tree in this and each preceeding book as it would help to keep all the adopted Becket children and their spouses straight. Each book in the series is about one of the Becket children finding love and the deadly secrets the family hides. This last book takes a twist in the romance angle and the youngest Becket child is in love with the eldest, but fortunately all the children are not related by blood. Even though Courtland is not Cassandra's blood brother, she has been raised and lived with all her father's adopted children and Courtland has known her since the day of her birth. I find that a bit too incestuous and unbelievable that a man who is 13 years her senior would be in love with someone he has been looking out for and living with since she was born 18 years before. Apart from tne love story, the culmination of the family's secrets and their hiding out on Romney Marsh for 18 years ends with treachery and excitement and each member is finally free to go their own way and live their own lives."
Review Date: 7/23/2009
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"This was the first book I read by this author and I enjoyed it. Plenty of suspects, several underlying mysteries, excentric suspects, and the victim is shot dead twice by two different guns at two different times. Throw in the British pop rock scene, a bit of romance, the 24 hour flu, a very strange corpse, a religious relic and you have the makings of a good and unusual who-dun-it."
Review Date: 3/28/2009
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"I really like this series. Jane Wheel is the ultimate garage sale-rummage sale-estate sale queen! She dithers about what to part with from her huge collections when the STUFF begins to overwhelm her home and her husband. Of course there is always a bit of mystery thrown in to challenge her "hunting" talents. The stories take place west of Chicago and up and down Route 55 which is so familiar to me as I recognize many of the towns, streets, and locations from living in that area for nearly 20 years. Even if you aren't from that area, you will enjoy these books if you have ever suffered as Jane does in throwing anything away."
Review Date: 10/7/2009
"Twelve great mystery writers pen Christmas mysteries. Gave me a change to read some authors that I hadn't read before. Peter Lovesey's "Pass the Parcel" had a great twist to the ending. Read one a night for the twelve days of Christmas."
Review Date: 10/1/2010
"I want to know how Elaine Viets gets all the details on the variety of under-the-table paying jobs poor Helen gets in her quest to remain "out of the system" to avoid her ex-husband and the retribution of the Missouri legal system. This time Helen is working in customer service - more like customers torturing the employees - in an exclusive Florida country club where the old inherited-it-rich rub shoulders with the newly rich Mafia types. As usual Helen's quirky landlady and neighbors are there to lend their support when Helen becomes a suspect in a murder. Her ex-husband has married the notorious "Black Widow," but Helen was the last person seen with him before his bloody shirt and a pool of his blood is found in the club's employee parking lot so she becomes the prime suspect in his supposed murder. Fortunately, Helen's new love is around to help her prove her innocence. As usual, a funny, clever, and read-it-in-one night book."
Review Date: 11/12/2009
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"Okay, I admit the cover struck me as silly..as did the title, but this really was a very good story of humankind's survival in an end-of-the-world book. Told from the viewpoints of an old man of a rural area and a young man of an urban city, it told the horrors of survival as non-stop rain ravaged earth and huge tidal waves swamped the coastal areas of the globe wiping out populations and land masses until only those in the inland high-rises and mountaintops were left to scavage and fight each other to survive...until the giant worms and huge squid-like creatures came after them. What caused the disasterous rain...God breaking his promise to Man after Noah, or global warming? I really couldn't put this book down, and I do not read either sci-fi or horror."
Review Date: 3/30/2009
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"The Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn mysteries are very funny and clever. The setting is Boston and its environs. Sarah owns a boarding house which was all that kept this young widow from starving until she met Max. Sarah is "old Bostonian" and Max is a sharp international stolen art sleuth and recoverer. Sarah's relatives are mostly quite dotty (maybe too many generations of Boston in-breeding?) and are always pulling Max into their problems. Charlotte MacLeod writes the funniest mysteries and this one is no exception."
Review Date: 3/28/2009
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"Beautiful color photos on nearly every page with chapters on Country Design; Collections; Preserving Food; Country Gardens; Country Christmas, Traveling, etc. With an appendix and index. Includes recipes, craft ideas, antique collectibles, flower and vegetable gardens, large to small gardens, picnics, camping, making wine, etc. Enjoy the beauty and relaxation of Country living with this book. A real treasure to enjoy."
Review Date: 3/28/2009
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"I think this is one of Ms Christie's best mysteries. The obvious killer of the wealthy 85 year old man is his young wife, no the grandchildren's tutor, no the eldest son, no the younger son, or maybe the sister-in-law?...and so it goes. There are so many suspects and they all live in the same house as the dead man, all had motives, all had easy access to the man and the murder weapon. This is not a Miss Marple or Poirot mystery either, but an ordinary young man in love with the dead man's granddaughter who tries to solve the murder so that she will feel free to marry him if the murderer was not a blood relative. The young man's father just happens to be the Scotland Yard man on the case and he asks his son to use his "inside" edge with the family to find the killer. The ending will astound you."
Review Date: 7/27/2009
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"A good mystery set on a small Texas college campus. I laughed out loud at the funny things that being politically correct can twist the English language into. Remember nothing can be gender oriented so that means no "his" or "men" or "man" in any words. Guess what the politically correct word is for manhole cover? No DWEMs or Dead White European Males taught in the English curriculum either under the new Dean's agenda. And Professor Carl Burns has to be extra careful what he says to the pretty new college librarian whose hobby is collecting trophies and cluttering up her office with them. If he says the wrong thing she could haul him before the college council to be reprimanded for "looksism.""
Review Date: 8/8/2009
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"I found the heroine accountant Amanda a bit foolish and irritating, but the sexy cop hero with his snappy comebacks to the annoying Amanda easy to like. Amanda insists that her deceased client was murdered while Nick, her sometime lover insists that the old man died in an accidental fall down his storm cellar stairs running for cover from an F2 tornado. When strange incidents begin happening to Amanda and someone is stalking her, she refuses in what seems to be a snit of temper against Nick that she won't tell him. Her reasoning seems so foolish and childish that I really wanted to shake Amanda until her teeth rattled, just like Nick did. I never did figure out the real villan though which makes it a good mystery to me."
Review Date: 7/14/2009
"Demary Jones may have a P.I. license, but basically she's a researcher with a network of internet experts and gossip collectors who help her in her genealogy research and the research she does for lawyers and insurance companies. When she trips over a nude,dead man's body as she walks from her garage, her natural research instincts prompt her to find out his identity and why he was murdered. Her investigation leads her to counterfeit money, women duped out of money by a suave con man, Israeli secret agents, and tracking down money which may or may not have been stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish victims. Oh, and avoiding getting killed by the murderer and not making enemies in the Seattle Police Department."
Review Date: 9/29/2010
"Antiques and mystery in the same book so I thought I'd really enjoy it, but I found it a bit difficult to follow. I kept getting the characters confused and although the young niece is charming, I didn't care much about the main character Molly. Molly is supposedly religious and talks to God, but she also is not law abidding and has a sharp temper she doesn't seem to be able to control and why would she dither about sticking to her marriage vows to a man who is an adulterer, a crook and on the run with his lover from the police, who also got his wife Molly arrested, thrown in jail, and had her reputation destroyed? Also there are words one should not find in a supposedly cozy mystery."
Review Date: 4/6/2009
"Simon is an American living in a snug cottage in a snug village in England. He writes very learned tomes on history under his own name and lurid best selling Historical Romances under a female nom de plume. He's also a homosexual vampire. The local Lord of the manor is his assistant and flirts outrageously with Simon only to be continually turned down. When a brash TV decorating personality, Tres Zeke, comes to do his show at the manor, bringing with him his entrourage who all seem to hate the hateful man nasty mayhem results in murder. Simon not only is trying to solve the murder helping his friend the dishy police detective, but solving a more personal problem such as why his vampire pills are no longer quelling his urge to sink his teeth into the nearest neck. A fast pace read, light romance and a locked room mystery."
Review Date: 8/8/2009
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"A nice ghost story based on a Victorian's poet love affair and the curse his spurned lover put upon him. The ghost must help his present day descendant to find true love in order to find his own heavenly rest. Unfortunately for the ghost his descendant, Mark Vereker is avoiding all woman after he was dumped by a woman he loved. Lara, the woman who now inhabits the ghost's home is getting over a divorce and unhappy marriage and is not interested in men, especially Mark who she thinks is blocking her planning approval to modernize his ancestor's old Victorian house. So what's a ghost to do? Well, he can leave romance poems around the house for Lara to find and reveal a secret room to keep drawing Mark and Lara together. A light pleasant read."
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