Memories Can Be Murder [Hardcover]

Connie Shelton (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: INTRIGUE PRESS + (2002)
• ASIN: B000SMOBZK
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Charlie Parker mystery, October 12, 1999

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This review is from: Memories Can Be Murder : The Fifth Charlie Parker Mystery (Charlie Parker Mysteries) (Hardcover)

When Charlie Parker was a teenager her parents died in a plane crash. Being spoiled and preoccupied with her prom, Charlie thought they were going on a vacation. However, years later Charlie learns that her parents were actually going on a business trip sponsored by her father's employer the Scandia Corporation. Instead of pilot error or mechanical failure, Charlie finds out that a bomb blew up her parent's plane. Scandia Corporation squashed the investigation.

Charlie feels the need to learn why her parents were murdered. Obsessed by the incident, Charlie reacts the way she always acts when she needs to know something. She starts her own investigation. She begins with her father's ex-secretary, who sends her to a possible informant. However, before they meet, an assassin murders Charlie's pigeon. Someone ransacks Charlie's office and Hannah's home seeking information they believe Charlie possesses. In spite of the increasing danger, the tenacious Charlie continues her inquiries wondering what the unknown assailants think she owns.

The fifth Charlie Parker mystery is the best of the series as the story line combines an emotional look inside Charlie with a well-designed who-done-it. Charlie's romance with her live-in lover helps relieve some of the growing tension surfaced by her investigation. MEMORIES CAN BE MURDER demonstrates Connie Shelton's talent as the audience will find a night with Charlie is an exciting evening.

5.0 out of 5 stars Charlie Parker - Secret Agent, January 16, 2012

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Bill King (Elizabeth, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memories Can Be Murder: The Fifth Charlie Parker Mystery (The Charlie Parker Mystery Series) (Kindle Edition)

Memories can be Murder - This is the 5th in the Charlie Parker Series and my 5th as well. This was the best to date it started out slowly as Charlie finds out that the plane accident that killed both her parents 15 years earlier may not have been accident after all. So Charlie starts poking around asking questions as any good PI would do but as she does people seem to be dying and other out of the ordinary things seem to be happening all around her. What starts out as simply asking questions turns into a full blown spy novel worthy of James Bond . If your thinking of reading a Charlie Parker book don't start with Memories can be Murder read a couple of the earlier books first you need to know Charlie a bit so you can understand her thinking and motives before diving into the book but make sure you read it's Awesome.

4.0 out of 5 stars Charlie investigates her parents' death, March 20, 2003

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Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Memories Can Be Murder : The Fifth Charlie Parker Mystery (Charlie Parker Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Two events conspire to put Charlie Parker on an investigation of her parents' death. The first was that her neighbor, who helped raise her after her parents' death, confides that their plane crash was not an accident, but was the result of a bomb which had been planted on the plane. The second event is that Charlie's fiance, Drake, will soon be coming from Hawaii to move in with her. This necessitates rearranging some of her things to make room for Drake and her discovery of some of her father's old papers in the attic. Her father had been an employee of Sandia Corporation and had been privy to some confidential government information. Working on the theory that her father had some incriminating evidence about someone at his job, Charlie begins interviewing his former co-workers and looking for answers to her questions about the plane crash. Bad things begin happening to Charlie and the people she talks to, and the net begins to tighten around Charlie and the murderer. This is another good entry in the Charlie Parker series.