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Doll Mystery, January 30, 2010
This review is from: Goodbye Dolly (Wheeler Cozy Mystery) (Paperback)
Gretchen attends her first auction while her mother is on her big book tour. She wins the bid on a box of Ginny dolls but packages are somehow mixed up and she leaves with a box of Kewpie dolls. Reporter Ronnie Bean is discovered dead with one of Gretchen's tools with her ex-boyfriend Steve's fingerprints on it. Even though Steve is a rat, she doesn't believe he is a killer. She sets off to uncover the real killer. I love this series with its quirky characters and doll collecting theme. I always get a chuckle out of it and highly recommend it!
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No good deed goes unpunished, it seems, March 4, 2008
What could possibly go wrong? Gretchen Birch is supposed to bid on the list of dolls her mother wants at the doll auction and then run the doll repair table at the doll show. Simple, right? Yeah, up until Gretchen lost the list, bid too much on Ginny Dolls and opened the box to find Kewpies, finds out her ex-boyfriend is in town to win her back (6 months after she left him in Boston), and her Aunt Nina is insisting she learn to read auras. Then there was the fatal car accident at the auction, the strange package deliveries, and mysterious messages inside mended dolls. Nothing more could go wrong, could it?
In this the second doll mystery from Deb Baker, we're back in Phoenix with Gretchen Birch, doll repairer. Gretchen is settling in to her mother's doll repair business having moved from Boston when she finally realized her relationship with Steve was never going to work -- not after he cheated. Now six months after she left him, he's in Phoenix determined to get her to return to Boston with him. A problem, but she's handling it by ignoring all his calls, deleting the answering machine messages, and not answering the door. Her real problem is that her mother's out on a book tour and Gretchen needs to attend the doll auction and run their table at the Phoenix Doll Show by herself. Now that's cause to hyperventilate.
Baker has set up the cast in the first scene and then she starts the action which doesn't let up until the final page. Gretchen is always just that bit behind the eight ball so that she has to act without all the facts, jumping to conclusions without logically examining the evidence. This time though, she's learned to be a bit more cautious, but caution just doesn't last when Aunt Nina decides to help out or when the Phoenix Dollars Club members have your best interests at heart. In other words, Gretchen has to sink or swim because backup is sadly lacking when she most needs it.
Goodbye, Dolly is definitely a page turner. You also learn a lot about dolls: their history and culture. Entertainment and education in one package.
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Nice easy read, October 20, 2007
Nice book to read after reading something intense. Good story. I learned some interesting things about doll collecting.
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