The Fax of Life: A Molly Masters Mystery #4 [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Leslie O'Kane (Author)

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Publication Date: April 2000

Violets are blue.
Roses are red.
One of you bitches
Will soon be dead.

Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. Eerily, within hours, one of her aspiring writers is murdered, apparently without rhyme or reason.

Or so Molly thinks until a storm and a blackout isolate the group in their mountain retreat. Katherine the professor, Nancy the shrink, Lois the doting mom, Julie the dog breeder, and Celia the big pest. Behind each one's suburban facade lurk passions unfit for family greeting cards, and a rage for life--and death. . . .

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"Molly Masters is a sleuth with an irrepressible sense of humor and a deft artist's pen."
--CAROLYN G. HART --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Violets are blue.
Roses are red.
One of you bitches
Will soon be dead.

Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. Eerily, within hours, one of her aspiring writers is murdered, apparently without rhyme or reason.

Or so Molly thinks until a storm and a blackout isolate the group in their mountain retreat. Katherine the professor, Nancy the shrink, Lois the doting mom, Julie the dog breeder, and Celia the big pest. Behind each one's suburban facade lurk passions unfit for family greeting cards, and a rage for life--and death. . . . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 390 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press (April 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786223286
• ISBN-13: 978-0786223282
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,875,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Humorous, entertaining cozy, March 15, 1999

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This review is from: The Fax of Life (Molly Masters Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

During the summer vacation, Molly Martin has a business opportunity to return to her former home in Boulder, Colorado. All she has to do is agree to teach a seminar on writing greeting cards at a rustic mountain resort. With her spouse Jim away on business, Molly, owner of Friendly FAX, accepts. Her best friend Lauren agrees to watch her two kids as well as her own child.

When they arrive in nearby Evansville, they are stunned by the fact that their rooms are filthy dumps that look unfit for human usage. Molly hosts a greeting cards seminar attended by five angry women, who agree with her assessment. During the first exercise, one of the attendees anonymously slips a threatening note into the bowl that is used to collect creative thoughts by the women. The next morning, Molly's friend Allison is dead and the police believes Molly is the prime suspect. She begins to dig into the background of the participants by questioning each of them and other related individuals.

THE FAX OF LIFE is an entertaining, quite amusing cozy. Like the previous novel, The Cold Hard Fax, this amateur sleuth mystery centers on the humorous Molly. Readers will enjoy the interesting mystery, but what makes this novel and series special is the master humorist ability of Leslie O'Kane, who instills her mysteries with endearing characters.

Harriet Klausner