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Lädt ... A Catered Birthday Party (2009)von Isis Crawford
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This story involves a catered birthday party for a dog, Trudy. Of course, the owner of Trudy drinks a special wine and then states that she has been poisoned. The police do not see murder, just a heart attack. Libby and Bernie promise the dying Annabel that they will find the murderer. In this caper, Sean Simmons, father of Libby and Bernie, leads the investigation and discovers the killer. I especially liked same of the new characters: Samantha and Trudy. Crawford likes to show that anger and hate can simmer for years, before an action is taken. Again, I like Crawford's writing better than Joanne Fluke's writing, but has better recipes. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Fiction.
Mystery.
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Although this book says "a mystery with recipes" on the cover, it appears that someone (not my friend) tore out the recipes--well, I'm assuming they were at the end of the book and there appears to be pages torn out from there--prior to us getting it. So there were no recipes. Not that most recipes that appear in these books are ones I plan to try anyway, but . . .
Like other reviewers mentioned, I did have trouble keeping all the characters straight. In fact, toward the end, when they discussed that Missy became Anna, I had no idea who Anna was or what she did in the story. Combine that with other characters named Annabel and Joanna and well, . . .just too many similar names and not enough characterization to each character to really keep them all straight (for me anyway).
I felt bad for Trudy (the pug). No one in the story really seemed to care for her except Samantha and maybe Melissa (and maybe Ines too). I think most of the other characters saw Trudy as a means to an end (a business empire, a way to make money, a way into the big leagues, etc.) Poor doggie.
I didn't guess the killer until it was revealed, but I'm also not sure I tried too hard to figure it out since I struggled with "wanting" to continue reading because I didn't really connect with any characters enough to care about what happened. ( )