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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Just sufficiently more fun than it is irritating,
By "garfish" (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Honeymoon with Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 4) (Paperback)
This is a nice fluffy cozy, deeply annoying in spots, but on the whole I must enjoy this series because I find I keep buying it. Annie Laurence owns "Death on Demand" bookshop, which is what every single one of Carolyn Hart's readers would do for a living if given the chance. There is one cat but she doesn't figure centrally. There's lots of good coffee. There's Annie's handsome, rich and adoring husband Max. There's an investigating officer so preposterously stupid it's astonishing he can walk around without an assistant reminding him to breathe every twenty seconds. There are about three references to the protagonist's (and, I suspect, author's) favourite mystery novels and writers per page. Although this is annoying, when the action gets slow you can amuse yourelf by counting them. Yet all said and done, this is a fun piece of candy-floss to while away a couple of hours on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Just don't go looking for any eternal verities. Or even temporary ones.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Unlikely premise,
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This review is from: Honeymoon with Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 4) (Paperback)
At long last Annie Laurance and Max Darling are married, in a ceremony which is a compromise between Max's mother Laurel's "far-out" ideas and Annie's desire for a simple, dignified ceremony. That all rings true, but what happens next does not. A murder is committed and a likely suspect disappears and suddenly the inhabitants of the island are enticed into a city of tents, divided up into men's and women's quarters from which they are to launch a search for a missing woman. It is difficult to imagine that such a thing would happen (why can't they search during the day and stay in their own homes at night?) and even more difficult to believe that a newly-married couple would fall for such a scheme. Max's mother Laurel provides some comic relief in the book, but her occult-loving friend Ophelia is a just a bit over the top. Let's come back down to earth, Mrs. Hart, and return to the formula which made you successful, the Agatha Christie-like mystery solved by the deductive reasoning of the heroine. Annie's solution to the case comes as almost a minor event compared to the other things which are going on in the book.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not my favourite book in this series either,
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This review is from: Honeymoon with Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 4) (Paperback)
I found this book to be rambling and disjointed. There did not seem to be a continuing thread, and the characters were all over the place. Also I was hoping not to have to read about the Circuit Judge Posey again, since I did not like him in the last book. I am becoming a bit disillusioned with this series, so I'll try a couple more, and if the books don't get better I'll go onto something else.
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