Leave No Stone Unturned: A Lexie Starr Mystery Novel (Five Star First Edition Mystery) [Hardcover]

Jeanne Glidewell (Author)

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Kansas widow Lexie Starr is about to become a grandma, but when she discovers that her new son-in-law may have murdered his previous wife and unborn child, she fears for her daughter’s life. Undaunted by the tremendous challenges she faces, and armed only with her research skills, Lexie takes a leave from her job at the local public library and heads for Schenectady, New York, to discover what really happened in Clayton’s past. Debut author Glidewell excels in drawing on the best of the cozy mystery tradition. She endows her characters with quirky traits, vividly sets the scene, and creates multifaceted relationships for Lexie as the amateur sleuth makes friends and possibly a boyfriend. Glidewell also succeeds in maintaining a rapidly paced story line that dramatically builds tension, while her narrator Lexie’s sly, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor provides plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. --Lynne Welch

Product Details

• Hardcover: 205 pages
• Publisher: Five Star (ME) (June 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594146497
• ISBN-13: 978-1594146497
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,210,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Mystery, August 19, 2008

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Denise Sanders (Fairport, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leave No Stone Unturned: A Lexie Starr Mystery Novel (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

Lexie Starr discovers that her new son-in-law may have killed his first wife. She starts to investigate his past life by driving from Kansas to Schenectady, NY. Lexie stays in a Bed & Breakfast run by an eccentric elderly woman named Harriet, who owns a foul mouthed parrot. Harriet is a fun character and ends up helping Lexie in her investigation. Lexie meets a new friend, Stone Van Patten, a jeweler from South Carolina, who also helps her in her effort to find out the truth about her son-in-law. Lexie will do anything to find the truth and protect her daughter, her only child, who has no idea that her husband may be a killer and that she may be next on his list.

This is an exciting book and leaves you surprised at the ending. It is well written and the different locations make for an interesting read. I am anxiously awaiting the next Lexie Starr book in this series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Mystery!, June 3, 2008

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Alice Duncan "nmlover" (Roswell, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leave No Stone Unturned: A Lexie Starr Mystery Novel (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

I just loved this book! A mother searches for her daughter, stays at a B&B run by the most wonderful landlady in the world, meets the man of her dreams (maybe), and follows tons of twists and turns. I enjoyed every word.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars engaging amateur sleuth, May 24, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leave No Stone Unturned: A Lexie Starr Mystery Novel (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

In Shawnee, Kansas, forty-eight year old volunteer librarian assistant widow Lexie Starr is helping a teenage use microfiche to find the winner of the 2001 Boston marathon when she notices an article on the late wife of police academy student Clayton Pitt. She realizes that Clayton is most likely her son-in-law whom she dislikes and whose first spouse Eliza was pregnant when she was murdered in DeKalb, New York.

While seeking replacement charms from a bracelet her daughter Wendy lost, Lexie comes into contact with Carolina jeweler Stone Van Patten. Using him as an alibi to divert Wendy, she heads to Schenectady, where Clayton lived to learn if he could be a spouse killer and whether her pregnant daughter is in jeopardy from him.

Although she knows she is over the top, Lexie LEAVES NO STONE UNTURNED as she goes the extra 1250 plus miles to insure the safety of her beloved daughter to learn whether her son-in-law killed his first wife. The support cast in Upstate New York adds eccentric color especially at the Camelot B&B where foul mouthed Sinbad the parrot and Harriet Sparks rule the roost. Detective Glick finds her amusing and irritation while Stone, whom she never met, joins her in New York. With a fine but improbable whodunit combined with a middle age romance, Jeanne Glidewell writes an engaging amateur sleuth.

Harriet Klausner