Cozy in Kansas: In the Dead of Winter/Bye, Bye Bertie/For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls (Ivy Towers Mystery Omnibus) (America Loves a Mystery: Kansas) [Paperback]

Nancy Mehl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2008

Running a small, rare bookstore in Winter Break, Kansas-a town so small they don't even have their own gas station-may sound peaceful. But Winter Break's eclectic citizens have their secrets. Ivy Tower s nose for mystery propels her into adventure and danger in this three-book collection of stories that will keep readers guessing until the very end!

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About the Author

Nancy Mehl's novels are all set in her home state of Kansas. ""Although some people think of Kansas as nothing more than flat land and cattle, we really are quite interesting!"" she says. Nancy is a mystery buff who loves the genre and is excited to see mor

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc (December 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 160260228X
• ISBN-13: 978-1602602281
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sharing an Adventure with Friends, January 28, 2009

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Ellen E. Kennedy "Miss Prentice" (Cary, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cozy in Kansas: In the Dead of Winter/Bye, Bye Bertie/For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls (Ivy Towers Mystery Omnibus) (America Loves a Mystery: Kansas) (Paperback)

Nancy Mehl's Winter Break anthology is highly recommended for a pleasant, absorbing and cheering mental vacation.
Main character Ivy Towers is the kind of person who would make a great best friend: self-deprecating, humorous, yet idealistic and compassionate. She has returned to a town that she remembers fondly from childhood. The death of her aunt is a shock, but spunky Ivy is undeterred in her determination to follow in Bitty's footsteps as a bookseller. Complications and romance follow.
Mehl is deft with her characterizations, creating three-dimensional small-town people with believable flaws and deep-seated values.
The gentle Christian message is a natural part of life in Winter Break, and strongly influences Ivy's attitudes. Anybody who has lived in a small town has encountered the same ups and downs of life there, encompassing both the tragic and the hilarious.
COZY IN KANSAS is a real treat, because the reader is able to trace several phases of Ivy's life in one volume. I'm looking forward to the fourth in the series, THERE GOES SANTA CLAUS.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cozy in Kansas, January 12, 2009

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Bookster - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cozy in Kansas: In the Dead of Winter/Bye, Bye Bertie/For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls (Ivy Towers Mystery Omnibus) (America Loves a Mystery: Kansas) (Paperback)

Cozy in Kansas includes three complete romance mysteries for the price of one. In the first mystery Ivy Towers returns to Winter Break, Kansas to run her Aunt Bitty's Bygone Bookstore while she investigates her aunt's death with the help of Deputy Sheriff Amos Parker. The next two mysteries continue with her acting as an amateur sleuth. Nancy Mehr's books combine humor, romance and many plot twists and turns. I highly recommend her books. They make great gifts and also would be good as book club selections.

5.0 out of 5 stars Books that were hard to put down, October 21, 2011

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Coramdeo540 (Anywhere, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cozy in Kansas: In the Dead of Winter/Bye, Bye Bertie/For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls (Ivy Towers Mystery Omnibus) (America Loves a Mystery: Kansas) (Paperback)

I read this series out of order. Each one was a stand alone book and enjoyable. I read all three because it was such an enjoyable world to join. The people were precious and every character was a welcome addition to the stories. It was almost a shame that one of those people could do wrong. And yet as art imitates life that is the very truth. People are fallen and no matter how kind people are those apart from Christ there is no hope.