Coffee Clutch (Jan Birch Mysteries) [Kindle Edition]

Marshall Thornton (Author)

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Review

"I love a good 'cozy' mystery, and Coffee Clutch drew me in from the very first page."
--Merilee at e-Fiction Book Club

Product Description

In the first Jan Birch mystery, a sixties homemaker maintains a tight circle of friends in her Upstate New York suburban neighborhood. When the divorcée down the street is murdered, the women attribute her death to a hobo they’d seen months before. Quickly, though, Jan begins to suspect that the hobo had left the neighborhood long before and the murderer may be one of her dear friends.

PLEASE NOTE: COFFEE CLUTCH IS INCLUDED THE DEVELOPMENT: THREE JAN BIRCH MYSTERIES. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEGUN THE SERIES PLEASE CONSIDER PURCHASING THE DEVELOPMENT. THANK YOU.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 68 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001R23R78
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,299 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Marshall Thornton is an award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter living in Long Beach, California. Best known for the Boystown detective series, he is also the author of the thriller Desert Run and the comedy The Perils of Praline, or the Amorous Adventures of a Southern Gentleman in Hollywood. He received an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, where he was awarded the Carl David Memorial Fellowship and recognized in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing awards. He has had plays produced in both Chicago and Los Angeles and short stories published in The James White Review and Frontier Magazine.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Suburban Snapshot of Murder, July 21, 2009

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Lynn ODell "Red Adept Reviews - A Blog" (Carolinas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coffee Clutch (Jan Birch Mysteries) (Kindle Edition)

Liked:

The writing in this novella was very well done. In succinct prose, we learn of a murder in a suburban neighborhood. One woman has suspicions and tries to find out the truth.

Disliked:

It's hard to describe the issues that I had with this story without giving spoilers, so I will just sum it up as: Loose Ends. There were just some things that were left either unexplained or not made clear.

Overall:

A quick read with a good plot.

Length: Novella 501 Locations

Rating: PG

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your .99 cents!, April 30, 2011

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Please don't waste your time with this book. Actually, I can't really call it a book because it was only about 80 pages long, which is more of a novella. The story was ridiculous, characters unlikeable, and no buildup of suspense or development of plot. Horrible!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good But..., March 13, 2010

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This review is from: Coffee Clutch (Jan Birch Mysteries) (Kindle Edition)

I have to agree with the other reviewer about loose ends. Difficult to understand what really happened especially when Bill talks about Neva being strong. What could easily have been a 5 star doesn't quite make it because of this. Very well written otherwise.