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1.0 out of 5 stars
They Just Keep Getting Worse, January 20, 2010
I so enjoyed this series in the beginning, but now I only hold them in a fall back position whilst I'm waiting for other books to arrive from Amazon. Sadly, I bought the whole series and it's doubtful that I'll ever finish them.
Judith is rude, arrogant, deceitful, disloyal, a liar and a thief. Not bad for someone married to a cop. Again, she treats the police as stupid and interferring in HER investigation. She is guilty of breaking and entering, stealing evidence from a crime scene, withholding evidence from the police and a multitude of other haneous faults that are annoying. Granted, this is fiction, but c'mon, how about a little bit of reality?? I've read other mysteries where the main character is NOT a PI or a policeman and they seem to be able to know their place and work WITH the police, not independently of them.
I can't imagine how the character Joe puts up with this tedious woman as well as her mother, the hateful and nasty Gertrude. Gertie was amusing and fun in the beginning but now it's easy to see where Judith gets her lack of charm and manners.
I read for pleasure, I expect there to be some artistic license taken on occasion, but the whole book???
And could someone tell me just which one of the policeman's eyes is patched? The book refers both his left and his right as being the good eye. Perhaps at the end, he'll just be a cop playing dress up?
I HAVE to find something else to read for my fall back position, these are getting just to awful.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Another book about Joe Flynn and the "little woman"..., December 5, 2000
By A Customer
UGH!! I have read every mystery in this series so far. I keep reading them because I love the setting, etc, and try my best to ignore the lead character. But I can do it no longer. The Bed and Breakfast series makes me feel like I am reading about the Betty Crocker 1950's. Judith's prizewinning husband is truly a jackass, and she simpers and caters to him like a spineless idiot. What good old Joe needs is a boot out the door. Maybe then Judith could be the independant character she showed the potential of being in the first book of the series. Ane Renie! Oh please! If I read one more time about how Bill had to have his dinner on time every day....if he's so worried about it, let him cook it himself! I just hope that the much better Alpine series by the same author never becomes this disgusting.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, humorous characters, December 4, 1998
By A Customer
I've read every one of Mary Daheim's bed and breakfast mysteries and enjoyed them all. They are funny and meant to be. I love the characters of Gertie and Reenie and laugh out loud at their speech. Set in Heraldsgate(which is a little like Seattle)some of the humor is more obvious to those of us fortunate enough to live in the Pacific Northwest. This book is fun to read at the holiday season.
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