Deadly Greetings: A Card-making Mystery [Large Print] [Paperback]

Elizabeth Bright (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 355 pages
• Publisher: Wheeler Publishing (November 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597223689
• ISBN-13: 978-1597223683
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,403,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Silly, September 3, 2006

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This review is from: Deadly Greetings: A Card-Making Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

I find it unbelievable that a single, self-dependent person could make a living at a custom greeting card shop with no other means of support. This whole premise just seems really far-fetched for this type of series.

Everything else is so scattered and silly. Jennifer tells her neighbor that he's not good-looking enough for her to get involved with him and take on his problems? She laments about her ex-boyfriend finally ending things and then when he shows up wanting another chance, she throws him out of her apartment? She goes to her neighbor's apartment demanding answers to questions about his personal life and yells at him to give her back a card she swiped that was meant for him? She comes across as stubborn, arrogant and belligerent, not fiesty and independent.

The supporting cast isn't much better -- the author seems more interested in telling their story as a family than in the actual mysteries.

I can't really recommend this as anything more than a light, time-filling read.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Bright aka Tim Myers, March 25, 2007

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Carrie Shields "English teacher & mystery lover" (Biloxi, MS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly Greetings: A Card-Making Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

Best-selling cozy writer Tim Myers, author of three successful cozy series--the Lighthouse Inn, the candle-shop mysteries, and the soap-making mysteries--is the creator of this new series. While my favorite series is the candle-shop, I found the card-making endeavor to be right on par with his other series. They are light, easy reads. . .anyone who is "put off" by the premise of a card shop being highly lucrative should keep in mind that a typical cozy mystery requires the reader to suspend reality just a bit. Another highly recommended series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, not great, April 13, 2007

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Mary H. Lesser "doc lesser" (Valdese, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deadly Greetings: A Card-Making Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

I've read other books by this author and enjoyed them more than this one. That may be because I didn't think the author really delivered on the promise in the book's opening sentence. It's a great sentence: "I never really believed in ghosts until Frances Coolridge tried to kill me two months after she died." But if you're looking for a lot of "ghost action" you're going to be disappointed...in fact, the main character isn't really around her place long enough to be haunted! This author has been criticized in reviews (of some of his other books) for making allusions to his other series, but I think they are funny in a sly way. It's not a bad read, even if the plot does follow a pretty standard formula.