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1.0 out of 5 stars
A real mystery...., February 8, 2002
This review is from: Footprints in the Butter: An Ingrid Beaumont Mystery Co-Starring Hitchcock the Dog (Hardcover)
I gave up on this novel on page 17. The writing is muddled and the plot is unclear: the characters are gathered in Denver for a high school reunion, and one of our heroine's friends is murdered. Our heroine is not a suspect because she was caught on videotape at Mile High Statium at the time of the crime, but she seems to be being questioned like a suspect anyway. Why? The her lover vanishes shortly after the murder. Why?--she wonders. Why, indeed? The author seems to affect a disjointed writing style in order to reflect the ditzy personality of her main character, Ingrid. It doesn't work. Punt.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable amateur sleuth tale, October 16, 1999
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This review is from: Footprints in the Butter: An Ingrid Beaumont Mystery Co-Starring Hitchcock the Dog (Hardcover)
Ingrid Beaumont loves riddles and crossword puzzles. Though she enjoys reading and watching a whodunit mystery, the genre is not her form of entertainment even though she always tries to solve the book or movie. Perhaps it is because she always selects the red herring. While Ingrid watches the Broncos play at home, someone kills her high school chum, renowned painter Wylie Jamestone. He dies in nearby Colorado Springs. Local police lieutenant Pete Miller leads the investigation. On the corpse is a note to give the painting to Ingrid and referring to the start of a treasure hunt. Ingrid has an alibi that proves she was at the football game at the time of Wylie's murder. For reasons that Ingrid does not understand or believe, she begins to make her own inquiries into Wylie's murder. With her giant canine Hitchcock faithfully at her side, Ingrid begins to uncover the truth, but as the dynamic pair gets closer, their deadly opponent raises the danger level. FOOTPRINTS IN THE BUTTER is a wonderful amateur sleuth tale starring a wisecracking and witty heroine and her beloved dog. The enjoyable mystery takes a back seat to the warm middle age protagonist and the independent Hitchcock. Denise Dietz designs a delightful novel that will please fans of the sub-genre, especially those who enjoy the author's Ellie Bernstein books.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Just awful..., January 25, 2005
This review is from: Footprints in the Butter: An Ingrid Beaumont Mystery Co-Starring Hitchcock the Dog (Hardcover)
I had to struggle to finish this book--me, who loves mysteries and enjoys almost every minute of even the worst of them! But "Footprints in the Butter" was a real turn-off--contrived, trite, and predictable. I knew who did it by page 109 (and I'm a little slow on these things) and the thought of enduring another 140 pages of a shallow heroine, bad jokes, and terrible puns caused me to turn to the last page. By golly, I was right! I didn't even have any regret about missing whatever didn't happen in those pages. All I feel is relief that I am free to spend my day with a better book than this one.
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