Father's Day Murder (Lucy Stone Mysteries, No. 10) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Leslie Meier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2003

Lucy Stone, part-time reporter, has left Tinker's Cove for a Boston newspaper conference. When Luther Read, head of a nearly bankrupt newspaper dynasty, and father to several resentful children, suddenly drops dead, Lucy has other things to think about. Murder for instance. She's not buying the theory that Luther died of an asthma attack. Would one of his own kids have resorted to murder? Lucy vows to investigate...

Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: Chivers; Lrg edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754073920
• ISBN-13: 978-0754073925
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars solid cozy, June 15, 2003

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Father's Day Murder (Lucy Stone Mysteries, No. 10) (Hardcover)

Tinker's Cove is a small Maine hamlet that has a very well established and well written newspaper the Pennysaver that has just been named "Community Newspaper of the Year" in Category five by the Trask Trust for Journalism in the Public Interest". The trust issues grants to the publisher Ted Stilling and investigate reporter Lucy Stone to attend the Northeast Newspaper Association conference in Boston.

Even though Lucy feels guilty about deserting her husband, four children and her dog, she decides to go to the conference where she meets various members of the Read family. They own the Pioneer Press group, which has newspapers all over the northeast. The head of the conglomerate, Luther Read was going to sell out to a bigger company but changed his mind much to the consternation of some family members. When he is killed, his son Junior is arrested for murder but Lucy, who knows him from Tinker's Cove, is positive he's innocent and sets out to prove it, a task that could get her killed if she's not careful.

The latest installment in the Lucy Stone mysteries is fast paced, exciting and very colorful. Readers are taken on a scenic tour of Boston and given special insight into how the heroine's mind works when she is on the trail of a story. FATHER'S DAY MURDER is the funniest novel in the series as Lucy frets herself into a tizzy worrying about her family who she believes can't function without her. Leslie Meier's latest cozy is the perfect mystery to read when one wants to be entertained.

Harriet Klausner

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Your Usual Convention, February 16, 2008

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J. E. Stephens "Jeanne" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Father's Day Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)

Lucy gets a chance to leave home for an all expense paid trip to a newspaper convention. Who wouldn't want to stay in a 5 Star hotel in downtown Boston and get away from cooking, cleaning, laundry, kids, and pets? Lucy finds herself in the middle of another murder investigation. Can she find the real killer in just one week? This Lucy Stone novel is different because of the historical Boston city setting. Lucy takes many side trips to see many of the sights in Boston. Lucy also finds herself in many delicate situations while solving the murder and discovering there is, "no place like home."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not The Best Lucy Stone Mystery, November 26, 2003

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This review is from: Father's Day Murder (Lucy Stone Mysteries, No. 10) (Hardcover)

I have enjoyed the Lucy Stone Series, but feel that the character is becoming less interesting in each new book.

I think I enjoyed her most in her earlier books, especially her first book, Mistletoe Murder where she worked taking orders at Christmas for a mail order catalog.

She has since become a reporter for the weekly Tinker Cover Pennysaver in her hometown in Maine.

In the Father Day's Murder, Lucy goes to the Northeast Newspaper Association conference in Boston. At the evening reception, Luther Read, head of the Pioneer Press Group is murdered and his son Junior is arrested.

Lucy knows Junior isn't guilty because, after all, her daughter Elizabeth is working as a nanny for his little boy during the summer vacation and her daughter couldn't be working for a murderer.

Lucy tries to solve the murder, but most of the book seems like a travelogue through Boston. The descriptions of the Stewart Gardner Museum was interesting, and I like a little scenic flavor in a book, but this was too much.

The mystery wasn't all that interesting. Lucy spends a lot of time walking to different places, shopping and she does talk to a lot of different suspects but I don't think anything she does would have ever led her to figure out who the killer was.

I don't consider it solving the mystery when Lucy only figures out who the killer is when she comes face to face with them, after they attempt to kill her.

If this is the first Lucy Stone Mystery you've read and you're disappointed in it, don't stop with this one. Go back and read her earlier books. They are very enjoyable and you really get to know Lucy and her family.

One of the problems with this book is if you haven't read the earlier ones, I think it could be difficult to understand the dynamics of this family. Lucy spends a lot of time worrying about her kids and husband, which is easier to understand if you know what had happened previously to all the characters.

Despite my disappointment in this book, I am looking forward to the next book in the series.