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World Hotels - Twanged (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 4)
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List Price: $4.99
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446508759
ISBN: 0446508756
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however, casts Regan's trip in a new light. Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star, has been getting frightening "love notes" and she hires Regan as her bodyguard for a Fourth of July concert in Southampton. Brigid plans to play a fiddle given to her in Ireland and said to have magic powers. She later learns the rest of its legend - whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death.
A guest found floating face-down in a pool at Chappy's welcoming party for Brigid is only the first in a series of ominous incidents. As Brigid's Fourth of July concert nears, it looks as if the cursed fiddle should be shipped back to Ireland - Express Mail! It's Regan's job to hold the curse at bay and fend off Brigid's pursuers.
"Entertaining...exactly what Clark fans have been craving." --- USA Today
"A superb mystery writer...makes it fun for her readers. " --- Washington Times
"A breezy cosy, full of crazy characters...A pleasant and charming outling."
--- San Francisco Chronicle
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Summary: My pocketbook was Twanged
Comment: Extremely light reading. Unreal, barely humorous characters. Other mystery writers have nothing to fear except loss of display area on bookstore shelves due mostly to the name in my opinion.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A book you don't want to read...
Comment: This book made me put off reading for awhile...until I could come back to it and try and finish it later. The book was so horrible I had to skim through the remaining chapters to try and figure out what happened in the end. After reading this novel I am hesitate on trusting the author with any of her newer books. This book is nothing like Carol's mother's books. Yesterday I read "I Heard That Song Before" in one day, and not once did I get tired of reading. I am going to check the reviews of Carol's books before I read another one of them. All book stores should pull this one off the shelf.
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Money!
Comment: Carol Higgins Clark writes like a child who hates writing, but loves the applause at the end. I imagine her writing for indulgent parents who have low expectations of her but who cheer after reading the book. The writing is shallow, the characters are cliche and the mystery is pretty much non existent. Don't bother with these books.
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Summary: Regan Reilly Mystreys Continue
Comment: This was a mediocre book. It is not one that screams for a second reading.
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Summary: Typos, capslock, and fiddles, oh my!
Comment: This story is definitely intended to be a light-hearted mystery, and the author does a good job of protraying annoying characters.
However, the paperback edition I picked up was filled with typos, which constantly jangled my nerves. Also, Chappy's shouts were always IN CAPSLOCKS! It drove me nuts! Like others have stated, it didn't give a good feel of the music industry (and don't get me started on the extremely dull interview the radio personalities gave...ugh. No wonder their station was doing badly).
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