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World Hotels - Murder By the Slice: A Fresh-Baked Mystery
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List Price: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Signet
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451222503
ISBN: 0451222504
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2007-09-25
Publisher: Signet
Studio: Signet
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At this year's school carnival fund-raiser, the obnoxious president of the Parent Teacher Organization is found stabbed through the heart with Phyllis Newsom's own knife, with traces of incriminating frosting. Clearing her name will be no piece of cake...
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Summary: Read only if bored
Comment: While this book was an easy read and helped pass the time while I was stuck in an airport, I have no plans to read any of the other books in this series. The writing style and dialog are awful. It seems like the author was gearing this book toward the older crowd because the main character continually points out the (obvious) differences between the way things used to be 20-30 years ago, and today. The main chraracters also continually repeat the same dialog and thoughts. If you took out everything that is repeated, the book would be half as long.
If you like baking, Texas (where the book takes place) or are a retired teacher (profession on the main characters), then give this book a try. If not, skip it.
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Summary: Cozy With Older Persons
Comment: I wasn't sure I'd like this series with people past retirement age but the characters are easy to like and the age doesn't matter a bit.
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Summary: Hard to tell who the villain is
Comment: I usually like this type of mystery. In fact, the mystery part of this book was pretty good. However, I found myself hating the "heroine", Phyllis, so much, that it was hard to decide who should get murdered, her or the up-coming victim. I could not identify with this charactor at all. And at the end of the book, that's what remained with me more than an adequate solution to the mystery.
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Summary: Another Yummy Mystery
Comment: If you enjoyed the first book in the series - A Peach of a Murder - then you will definitely enjoy this mystery as well. The same cast of characters are back - Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, Eve, Mike, and others. Once again, Phyllis and Carolyn enter into a baking competition; they are coming up with baked goods in order to help with a school fundraiser. Phyllis and Carolyn meet with several other parents at the fundraiser who are helping out, including the parent organization's president, Shannon. Shannon is immediately portrayed as an unlikeable character, so it's no surprise when she ends up dead. The mystery of who killed Shannon is actually quite good. I really enjoyed that I wasn't able to guess the murderer. The best part is that the characters are becoming friends of mine - I am enjoying the interactions between them and especially the character of Phyllis. She has a very old-fashioned charm about her and I enjoy her unwillingness to be modern when it comes to certain things (ie children swearing). There are some recipes in the back which look pretty good, and a preview of the author's next book, which I can't wait for! Definitely recommended.
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Summary: Decent plot; boring style
Comment: While the plot of this novel is adequate, I found the style very boring. As with some other series, the author has featured recipes at the end of the book, and during the course of the novel the protagonist is involved in cooking. However, segments where two or three pages are devoted to the steps in baking a cake only detracted from the story. It sounded more like a high school essay on how to do this process. There are many others who write in this genre more successfully (i.e. Diane Mott Davidson, Joanne Fluke). I also found the characters somewhat annoying and one-dimensional. The author felt a need to explain why the characters were acting as they were, instead of letting their actions speak for themselves.
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