Customer Reviews

Poisoned Pins (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 8)

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Joan Hess is loads of fun to read and this is one of my favorites. Her characters are delightful and the heroine is someond you can really identify with. Highly recommended

I have all her books and will continue to buy them. Love the heroine.

This was an enjoyable cozy mystery. The story flowed, the characterizations were good, the mystery solvable. There was even some humor thrown in, along with teenage angst and naughty happenings at the sorority next door.

Claire's money problems were realistic so that I felt like I wanted to shop in her store and help her out. However, it was frustrating to read about the way she let her daughter do whatever she wanted and talk to her disrepectfully. I also couldn't believe that Claire was so nosy. But then I later realized that Claire and her daughter are very much alike.

Though not my favorite cozy mystery series, this one is enjoyable. I'll read the whole series eventually.

After having read a number of Hess' "Arly Hanks" books, I decided to give Claire Malloy a try. I was disappointed with the characters and, in particular, this story line. Both were much too predictable. I had to keep checking the cover to make sure it was the same author as the one I've always found enjoyable in the Arly Hanks series.

Poisoned Pins was published by Dutton in 1993. Potential buyers should be aware of that fact.