To Grandmothers House (Five Star First Edition Mystery) [Hardcover]

Glen Albert Ebisch (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1594147647 | ISBN-13: 978-1594147647 | Publication Date: August 2009

When Auntie Mabel‚ advice columnist for the Ravensford Chronicle‚ dies suddenly‚ Laura Magee secretly replaces her. All goes well until the handsome head of security at Ravensford College charges into the office complaining that her a

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After Laura Magee loses her Boston Museum of Fine Arts job, she lands a position at the Ravensford Chronicle, a smalltown New England newspaper, in this nostalgic cozy from Ebisch (Grave Justice). Laura takes over the Ask Auntie Mabel advice column, since the original Auntie Mabel, Ann Rickdorf, has choked to death at the Big Bun on their all-you-can-eat shrimp and lobster night. When hunky Keith Campbell, the chief of security at Ravensford College, complains to Laura that Auntie Mabel's advice inspired his girlfriend, Heidi Lipton, an art teacher, to dump him, Laura agrees to accompany Keith to a party at the college to make Heidi jealous. At the party, Laura literally falls over the dead body of the art department chairman, Jack Proctor, who had been harassing Heidi, making Heidi the prime suspect in Jack's murder. Laura discovers investigative journalism can be dangerous in this old-fashioned blend of romance and detection. (Aug.)
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 245 pages
• Publisher: Five Star (ME) (August 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594147647
• ISBN-13: 978-1594147647
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,770,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amusing Mystery Novel, December 18, 2009

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This review is from: To Grandmothers House (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

Ebisch captures and maintains your interest and amusement from the first paragraph to the last in this fast moving who-done-it and who-did-whom adult mystery set in a small college town in New England. Besides providing a suspenseful story line with engaging characters (especially the protagonist's grandmother with her right-on-target Tao truisms), Ebisch is a master of witticism, making you smirk with delight at each humorous phrasing while awaiting the next gem to arrive.

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4.0 out of 5 stars fun lighthearted whodunit, August 29, 2009

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Laura Magee was the art writer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until she lost her position and her boyfriend painter Owen Reynolds. Leaving Boston, she moves in with her grandma in the nearby college town Ravensford. When the Ravensford Chronicle's most popular columnist, Auntie Mabel dies after over three decades of advice, the owner Roger St. Claire hires Laura to continue the column as few people knew that Mabel was Ann Rickdorf.

Ravensford College head of security Keith Campbell charges into the newspaper's office demanding to see Auntie Mabel for the column she wrote yesterday. Apparently her advice persuaded his Amazonian girlfriend, college art teacher Heidi Lipton, the renowned "Pottery Princess", to dump him. Laura hides her alter ego from him, but offers to go out with him to make Heidi jealous even though she is attracted to the handsome Keith. At a gala, art department chair Jack Proctor is found dead when Laura accidentally falls on him at the bottom of some stairs. Heidi's bracelet is found with him. As Police detective Michael Farantello tells her to stay out of his inquiry as she has compromised the crime scene already; Laura helps him anyway.

This is a fun lighthearted whodunit as the heroine goes from no men in her life to three men (Keith, Frank and Owen who has come to the college) to maybe one man. The mystery is cleverly designed so that the beautiful but clearly strong Heidi seems to have committed the crime as she and the victim had issues, were arguing, and her bracelet was found on him; strength, size, and height being a key reason why she is a prime suspect and Laura is not. Fans will enjoy this entertaining Massachusetts frolic as the art of the heroine's late grandfather becomes the center of the conflict.

Harriet Klausner