Fourth in the Death on Demand mystery series revolving around Annie Laurance, the owner of the Death on Demand bookstore located on Broward's Rock.My TakeIt's loyalty to a friend and a search for the truth. Crane certainly takes us on a winding path to solve this murder. And as irritating as I fi...
Annie & Max Darling have just moved into their new home. They have a lot of interesting neighbors, especially Sydney Cahill who goes after every man she meets, including Max. Annie is not too interested in going to Sydney's Valentine party, but Max's mother comes to visit & decides that it would ...
Third in the Death on Demand mystery series set in a bookstore specializing in mysteries and run by Annie Laurence. It won an Agatha and an Anthony.My TakeThere is a very Agatha Christie feel to this mystery so it's understandable that it won an Agatha award. I have to confess that Annie was very...
This is my favourite type of whodunnit, cozy mystery--a pool of murder suspects gathered together on an isolated island or in an isolated mansion. In this case, the setting was an isolated island, which should have been an idyllic, relaxing vacation spot with luxurious amenities. But, the probl...
Actual Rating: 3.5 StarsThis was another quick, entertaining read in the Death on Demand series.I actually liked Annie much better in this one than the previous one. She didn't seem to be quite as abrasive or clueless as she was in the first book. Max also endeared himself to me even more--I lo...
A few weeks ago I was listening to "Book Club Girl's" BlogTalk Radio show and she was interviewing Emily Gray Tedrowe about her book "Commuters". I book I've read and reviewed earlier. Well, in the course of the interview Emily mentioned how she found it odd more author's didn't write about their...
"A Little Knowledge Is ..."When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach 'The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery' class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking sca...
ok i want to write a letter to the author telling her i will never purchase another of her books because of the gratuitous way in which she slanders conservatives. I don't know the demographics of the audience for mystery "cozies" which is what this is, but I guess it must be overwhelmingly libe...
This was a really cute and relaxed mystery. Such a good commuting book. Plus Agatha Christie makes everything awesome by proxy. But I wasn't really super invested in any of the characters. I liked them and I disliked them. They seemed awfully stereotypical. The feisty one, the calm one, the sharp...
She could go home and have a glass of skim milk. Max always urged her to drink skim milk. He said studies proved that people who drank skim were healthier than those who drank whole milk. Annie said she could do a study proving that people who ate chocolate were happier than people who didn’t. Sh...
Linda tried to keep the despair from her voice. “Not a soul. After I left the Lamirand apartment, I went to the Café Marius, do you remember it? I used to meet Andre there for lunch. I used the telephone and I called and called. Hardly anyone is still in town.” She found o...
Annie didn’t open her eyes. She didn’t need to. “How did you find me?” “Dear Ms. Laurance, always so direct. I arrived on the ten-thirty ferry. Since there is only one ferry on Sunday morning, I was forced to count fiddler crabs while waiting. Fascinating creatures. When I reached your snug littl...