16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Nancy Martin Mystery, March 7, 2007
I enjoy the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries. I probably would have given this book a 5 star if Nora and Mick's issue where better resolved at the end of the book. I like the interaction between all the characters and would have enjoyed more a lot more to the book. I finished this book in two sittings. It's pretty good in story dynamics I just wanted a little more at the end hence the 4 star. All in All fast fluffy read worth reading more in the future by Martin.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
not the best in the series, November 4, 2007
A Crazy Little Thing Called Death by Nancy Martin is the sixth novel in the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries. The Blackbird family is an old one, and fairly high up in Philadelphia High Society. But the family has been cursed since colonial times - each of the family's daughters will love bad boys and become young widows. The three daughters of this generation of the Blackbird family have all fallen under the curse - they are all attracted to bad boys, and are all young and beautiful widows. They are also impoverished, as their parents spent off the family fortune and fled overseas, leaving he girls with multimillion dollar tax bills and nothing to pay them with. The sensible and sensitive red headed sister, Nora has agreed to marry her Mafia prince. Eldest sister, the blonde earth mother Libby, wants to plan the wedding of Nora's dreams, but is only being a pain. And dark haired sister, the horse crazy and athletic Emma, has started taking strange phone calls from men at all hours, leading her sisters to wonder if she has turned to the world's oldest profession to make ends meet. In the midst of all of this family madness, a movie star from a famous Philly society family vanishes and is declared dead. She leaves Nora a very interesting bequest. And her family makes the Blackbirds look normal. Did they kill her? Where might she possibly be - either dead OR alive?
I really enjoy this series, and have read them all, starting with
How to Murder a Millionaire and going right on through
Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery (Blackbird Sisters Mysteries) and I really wish that I could rate this one higher.
I have a couple of issues with it:
Nora and Mick need to either commit or break up ~ I would be content with either one, but the off and on nature of their relationship is getting really old this many books into a series
I would like to see both Libby and Emma be more fully developed as characters, particularly Emma, who seems to be intriguing
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not my favorite, March 28, 2007
I'm a big fan of the Blackbird sisters mysteries and was looking forward to the release of this book; however, I did not enjoy it as much as the others. The characters have already been well established. The story was okay but I'm getting bored with the Nora and Nick relationship. It's not really going anywhere. They break up, they get back together. Nothing ever changes and, to me, the relationship is starting to lose it's passion.
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