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Review Date: 1/23/2007
Helpful Score: 1
A very nice "herbal" mystery with China Bayles. Includes interesting facts on natural dyes, and a couple of good recipes!
Review Date: 1/18/2014
Helpful Score: 2
Robertson has come up with a terrific investigating team set in a time when neither of them would be accepted into "polite" society doing what they do. Together, however, they can't be overcome. Mrs. Westerman is an intriguingly modern woman stuck in the late 18th century, and Gabriel Crowther would be burned as a witch were he female. They overcome interesting obstacles and roadblocks to solve horrid crimes. Add to these two characters a very well-presented view of how life was lived "in those days" and you've got a great series. Instruments of Darkness is the first mystery, and sets up for all the rest (five so far.) Very well-written, very interesting, full of surprises.
Review Date: 1/18/2014
Helpful Score: 1
Harriet and Gabriel solve an old mystery in a country setting. Life in small-town England in the late 18th century after momentous changes in the Westerman household. We discover more about Gabriel's hidden past. Another in the fascinating Imogen Robertson series.
Review Date: 11/18/2007
Helpful Score: 1
A delightful knitting cozy, full of cups of great coffee, a smigden of romance, a great knitting pattern, and a recipe for a killer fudge! And, it's a pretty good mystery, too!
Knit with Beads: Stunning Shawls and Wraps: Easy Techniques, 15 Beautiful Designs (Knit With Beads:)
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Review Date: 10/31/2010
Helpful Score: 1
This book is full of lovely ideas for great wraps. They are just as doable without the beads as with, but the explanations for using the beads are very well-written and the illustrations make everything very plain.
Review Date: 1/12/2007
Entertaining romances (4 separate stories).
Review Date: 5/10/2007
Helpful Score: 3
Excellent mystery of the "it-happened-in-the-past-and-still-haunts-our-hero" variety. Psychological procedural that was nominated for and Edgar.
Review Date: 1/14/2007
Helpful Score: 1
Winspear has created a fascinating sleuth in Maisie Dobbs...very well-crafted mysteries set in post WWI London. Full of lively and true-to-life characters. You dive in and get lost for hours!
Review Date: 1/11/2008
Joanne Dobson's literary mysteries are wonderful! Each one showcases a different famous author's works (in this case, Dashiel Hammett), and there is a wonderful relationship growing between her professor-detective (Karen Pelletier) and the state police officer who always seems to end up on "her" cases.
Review Date: 1/12/2007
Lightweight, but entertaining mystery that adds a touch of house renovation and decorating.
Review Date: 3/26/2007
Two delightful and refreshing stories about one of the wisest persons on earth...Mrs. 'Arris manages to solve everyone's problems simply by being herself. A real "feel good" read!
Review Date: 1/14/2007
An odd little mystery, charming trip through WWI Paris and just after.
Review Date: 1/11/2008
Helpful Score: 1
Another in the wonderful Beau Brummell series of mysteries. A treat to those who enjoy Regency novels!
Review Date: 1/14/2007
This is a delight! Laugh your way through this charming romance...and this is an autographed copy.
Review Date: 4/23/2007
Helpful Score: 16
This is one of the most moving books I have ever read. It is one of the best depictions ever of the longing for a former homeland and the sense of not yet belonging to the new one that exists. Any immigrant or descendant of one will find an echo of his/her own life in this book. A lovely story of family, tradition and pride...it makes you laugh and cry at the same time!
Review Date: 1/22/2012
Another good one in the Andy Carpenter series...full of the sly wit at which Rosenfelt excells. Excellent plotting and the usual twist at the end! Worth your time.
Review Date: 8/16/2010
Helpful Score: 3
A new series begins from Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird series. Roxy Abruzzo, a TOUGH woman with a past that includes a Mafia don for an uncle and an interesting former lover now back in the neighborhood, is about as far from the upper class ladies of Martin's former series as you can get! Roxy's Pittsburgh is as much a character in the book as she is, and adds much to the ambience.
Roxy works as an architectural artifact salvager and seller, and is surrounded by a group of oddball characters that are her "family." She removes a 7-foot statue of a naked man from a site about to be razed, gets mixed up in the murder of a wealthy aquaintance, and finds she has to extricate someone she loves from danger.
This is a grittier story than before from Martin, but very good, and well-written.
Roxy works as an architectural artifact salvager and seller, and is surrounded by a group of oddball characters that are her "family." She removes a 7-foot statue of a naked man from a site about to be razed, gets mixed up in the murder of a wealthy aquaintance, and finds she has to extricate someone she loves from danger.
This is a grittier story than before from Martin, but very good, and well-written.
Review Date: 1/11/2008
VERY well-written mystery, set in Pompeii just before the eruption of Vesuvius. The historical details are fascinating.
Review Date: 6/12/2007
Helpful Score: 5
"Owen Meany,the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument: he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character."
For once the back cover gets it 100% right...this is one of the five most beautiful books I have ever read...as I got to the end of it I was counting the pages, hoping more would magically appear, and hoping that the inevitable would not happen. They didn't, and it did, but the book is still magnificent. If you need a booster shot for your faith in humanity, this is it!
For once the back cover gets it 100% right...this is one of the five most beautiful books I have ever read...as I got to the end of it I was counting the pages, hoping more would magically appear, and hoping that the inevitable would not happen. They didn't, and it did, but the book is still magnificent. If you need a booster shot for your faith in humanity, this is it!
Review Date: 11/26/2007
If a murder mystery can be delightful, this is it! The two young brothers who decide to play detective are resourceful and intelligent, and as a bonus, quite funny sometimes. Mrs. Bradley, Mitchell's odd old lady consultant to Scotland Yard, comes in at just the right point. Full of well-wrought characters and real human emotions, with just the right amount of pure fear to keep you on your toes.
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