Title: Nobody's Fool Cozy Mystery Swap
Description: Reveals and Archived Moves Only
Description: Reveals and Archived Moves Only
cheesygiraffe - April 1, 2008 02:06 AM (GMT)
Reveals and Archived Moves Only! :whip:
Archived Moves
Elsi asks luckaye to reveal A Murderous Yarn
Shaunie asks Cheesy to reveal Sweet Revenge
Spider asks Elsi to reveal Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio
Cheesy steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Spider
Spider asks Cherie to reveal No Nest for the Wicket
Gothamgal asks Franci to reveal Mum's The Word
Luckaye asks Amber to reveal Alibi in High Heels/Ghost Of A Chance
Cherie steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost Of A Chance from Luckaye
Lucie steals No Nest for the Wicket from Spiderchic
Spider steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost Of A Chance from Cherie
Cherie steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Cheesy
Cheesy steals Mum's The Word from Gothamgal
Gotham asks Shaunie to reveal Decaffeinated Corpse
Franci takes Sweet Revenge on Shaunie
Shaunie steals Mum's the Word from Cheesy
Cheesy asks Gotham to reveal Dying to Call You
Shelby steals Decaffeinated Corpse from Gotham
Gotham steals Mum's The Word from Shaunie
Shaunie steals the MDC trio from Cherie
Cherie steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost of a Chance from Spiderchic
Spider steals Dying to Call You from Cheesy
Cheesy steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Shaunie
Shaunie steals No Nest for the Wicket from Lucie as she zooms by on the way home
Lucie steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio right out of the game!
Cheesy steals A Murderous Yarn from Elsi
Elsi steals Mum's the Word from GothamGal
GothamGal steals Dying to Call you from spiderchic
Spider steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost of a Chance from Cherie
Cherie aske Spider to reveal Sofie Metropolis
Archived Moves
Elsi asks luckaye to reveal A Murderous Yarn
Shaunie asks Cheesy to reveal Sweet Revenge
Spider asks Elsi to reveal Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio
Cheesy steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Spider
Spider asks Cherie to reveal No Nest for the Wicket
Gothamgal asks Franci to reveal Mum's The Word
Luckaye asks Amber to reveal Alibi in High Heels/Ghost Of A Chance
Cherie steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost Of A Chance from Luckaye
Lucie steals No Nest for the Wicket from Spiderchic
Spider steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost Of A Chance from Cherie
Cherie steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Cheesy
Cheesy steals Mum's The Word from Gothamgal
Gotham asks Shaunie to reveal Decaffeinated Corpse
Franci takes Sweet Revenge on Shaunie
Shaunie steals Mum's the Word from Cheesy
Cheesy asks Gotham to reveal Dying to Call You
Shelby steals Decaffeinated Corpse from Gotham
Gotham steals Mum's The Word from Shaunie
Shaunie steals the MDC trio from Cherie
Cherie steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost of a Chance from Spiderchic
Spider steals Dying to Call You from Cheesy
Cheesy steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio from Shaunie
Shaunie steals No Nest for the Wicket from Lucie as she zooms by on the way home
Lucie steals Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio right out of the game!
Cheesy steals A Murderous Yarn from Elsi
Elsi steals Mum's the Word from GothamGal
GothamGal steals Dying to Call you from spiderchic
Spider steals Alibi in High Heels/Ghost of a Chance from Cherie
Cherie aske Spider to reveal Sofie Metropolis
luckaye - April 1, 2008 05:12 AM (GMT)
A Murderous Yarn by Monica Ferris
The art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire - who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting. and a hidden talent for unraveling crime.
Heavens to Betsy Devonshire! She never intended to get so caught up in this year's antique car race. But as sponsor of one of the entrants, she can't help but keep a close eye on the outcome - and it's not pretty. One of the drivers never makes it to the finish line. His car is found exploded in flames. Now Betsy and her crafty friends must determine if it was an accident or the work of a jealous competitor. The answer may be in a piece of needlework, but pinning down a suspect won't be easy.
cheesygiraffe - April 1, 2008 12:22 PM (GMT)
Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5503170
Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder.
While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane—the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy's ex-husband, the Jerk. But Sandee is supposed to be dead. Or so everyone believes.
Goldy's suspicions mount when the body of Drew Wellington, a former district attorney, is found in a corner of the library with a map worth thousands of dollars stashed in his clothing. She's convinced that Sandee is involved.
But the holiday madness is only just beginning for Goldy. Soon she's drawn into the dangerous, double-crossing world of high-end map dealing. And like the ghost of Christmas past, Sandee keeps making an appearance. Could she be out to prove that revenge is sweet?
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5503170
Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder.
While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane—the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy's ex-husband, the Jerk. But Sandee is supposed to be dead. Or so everyone believes.
Goldy's suspicions mount when the body of Drew Wellington, a former district attorney, is found in a corner of the library with a map worth thousands of dollars stashed in his clothing. She's convinced that Sandee is involved.
But the holiday madness is only just beginning for Goldy. Soon she's drawn into the dangerous, double-crossing world of high-end map dealing. And like the ghost of Christmas past, Sandee keeps making an appearance. Could she be out to prove that revenge is sweet?
elsi - April 1, 2008 01:33 PM (GMT)
Mississippi Delta Cozy Trio by Carolyn Haines
Splintered Bones -- Mississippi Delta #3
Splintered Bones
She may be a born-and-bred Mississippi belle, but it’s been a long time since Sarah Booth Delaney was a pampered daddy’s girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has more important things on her mind–like trying to hang on to her family’s plantation...and coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a bossy busybody of a ghost who is set on marrying her off to the first eligible suitor who comes calling.
But when a friend is in trouble, Sarah doesn’t hesitate to get involved. Eulalee McBride has confessed to killing her husband, Kemper, a gambling scalawag with a violent streak a mile wide. She wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on her dead spouse to prove he was a mean old bastard...and that’s why she bludgeoned him to death right before he was trampled by a 1,400-pound horse. But Sarah Booth knows her old friend is lying through her pearly whites–probably to protect her teenage daughter Kip, an angry kid who may have had her own reasons for wanting Kemper dead.
There’s certainly no lack of suspects–or studs–in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a trainer with a nasty secret, who arouses killer lust in the town’s women–all married and all ready to scratch each other’s eyes out for a roll in the hay with the Texas cowboy. Now, with the help of handsome Sheriff Coleman Peters, Sarah begins to put together the splintered pieces of the case. But as the season’s hunt ball draws near, she catches the unmistakable scent of blood...as a cunning killer gets ready to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave.
In Sarah Booth Delaney, CAROLYN HAINES gives us an emancipated daughter of the New South: a steel magnolia with brains, grit, and heart who gives as good as she gets. And in Splintered Bones, she offers plenty of wickedly brilliant humor and good old-fashioned suspense
Hallowed Bones -- Mississippi Delta #5
Hallowed Bones
The southern Delta has never been more exhilarating, evocative, and wickedly funny than in the mysteries of Carolyn Haines. Now she takes readers on another rollicking ride across the Mississippi cotton fields and into the glamour of New Orleans…as P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney follows a winding trail of murder and deception into a world where ghosts make fashion statements—and where one person’s miracle is another person’s mayhem.
The leaves of the calendar may be shedding faster than the sycamores on her family’s decaying Mississippi plantation, but thirty-something southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney isn’t ready to sing the blues. Not when she’s got a thriving detective agency and the outspoken, outrageously attired ghost of her great-great-grandmother’s nanny to keep her on her toes. But the matchmaking phantom may have the last word on motherhood when Sarah Booth takes on the controversial case of an accused baby killer.
Although Doreen Mallory’s been arrested for feeding sleeping pills to her ten-week-old daughter, no one could accuse her of lacking faith. A healer who, tragically, couldn’t save her own baby girl, born with multiple birth defects, Doreen has her own crosses to bear. While the local law seems convinced of Doreen’s guilt, Sarah Booth isn’t so sure. But why is Doreen reluctant to talk about the men in her life? Like the televangelist who stands to lose a lot more than his flock. Or the married politician with family ties to the Mob. Either of them could be little Rebekah’s father; either of them could also be her killer.
With Halloween approaching and her own personal life up for grabs, Sarah Booth could use a little faith healing herself. Torn between a married sheriff and an old flame who’s literally sweeping her off her feet, she’d better be prepared for the fallout of her most
unpopular case yet. Justice may not stand a ghost of a chance as a decades-old secret explodes, unleashing a storm of fury on Sarah Booth and all those she loves.
Witty, suspenseful, and featuring a cast of memorable characters, Hallowed Bones is a riveting tale of faith, murder, and maternal love. It is Carolyn Haines’s most accomplished novel yet.
Bones To Pick -- Mississippi Delta #6
Bones to Pick
Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life...
Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single-handedly save her family's Mississippi plantation, converse with Dahlia House's ghost, and capture a killer or two. But when a local girl is found dead in a cotton field, it's enough to make a lady toss back a Bloody Mary before noon on Sunday.
Someone held twenty-three-year-old Quentin McGee's face down in the rich Southern soil until she suffocated. The lawmen think Quentin's lover killed her. When the suspect's brother hires Sarah to prove his sibling innocent, Sarah quickly learns that the victim had plenty of wealthy, powerful enemies. Each had a bone to pick with Quentin for writing a scandalous exposé on her hometown. Adding spice to the gumbo is the news that Quentin was due to inherit the family fortune the day after she was killed...and that a second book was in the works. From illicit lovers and outraged families to slandered aristocrats, everyone is a suspect--and no one is safe...
"Carolyn Haines has done for the Delta what Janet Evanovich has done for New Jersey." --The State
Splintered Bones -- Mississippi Delta #3
Splintered Bones
She may be a born-and-bred Mississippi belle, but it’s been a long time since Sarah Booth Delaney was a pampered daddy’s girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has more important things on her mind–like trying to hang on to her family’s plantation...and coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a bossy busybody of a ghost who is set on marrying her off to the first eligible suitor who comes calling.
But when a friend is in trouble, Sarah doesn’t hesitate to get involved. Eulalee McBride has confessed to killing her husband, Kemper, a gambling scalawag with a violent streak a mile wide. She wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on her dead spouse to prove he was a mean old bastard...and that’s why she bludgeoned him to death right before he was trampled by a 1,400-pound horse. But Sarah Booth knows her old friend is lying through her pearly whites–probably to protect her teenage daughter Kip, an angry kid who may have had her own reasons for wanting Kemper dead.
There’s certainly no lack of suspects–or studs–in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a trainer with a nasty secret, who arouses killer lust in the town’s women–all married and all ready to scratch each other’s eyes out for a roll in the hay with the Texas cowboy. Now, with the help of handsome Sheriff Coleman Peters, Sarah begins to put together the splintered pieces of the case. But as the season’s hunt ball draws near, she catches the unmistakable scent of blood...as a cunning killer gets ready to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave.
In Sarah Booth Delaney, CAROLYN HAINES gives us an emancipated daughter of the New South: a steel magnolia with brains, grit, and heart who gives as good as she gets. And in Splintered Bones, she offers plenty of wickedly brilliant humor and good old-fashioned suspense
Hallowed Bones -- Mississippi Delta #5
Hallowed Bones
The southern Delta has never been more exhilarating, evocative, and wickedly funny than in the mysteries of Carolyn Haines. Now she takes readers on another rollicking ride across the Mississippi cotton fields and into the glamour of New Orleans…as P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney follows a winding trail of murder and deception into a world where ghosts make fashion statements—and where one person’s miracle is another person’s mayhem.
The leaves of the calendar may be shedding faster than the sycamores on her family’s decaying Mississippi plantation, but thirty-something southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney isn’t ready to sing the blues. Not when she’s got a thriving detective agency and the outspoken, outrageously attired ghost of her great-great-grandmother’s nanny to keep her on her toes. But the matchmaking phantom may have the last word on motherhood when Sarah Booth takes on the controversial case of an accused baby killer.
Although Doreen Mallory’s been arrested for feeding sleeping pills to her ten-week-old daughter, no one could accuse her of lacking faith. A healer who, tragically, couldn’t save her own baby girl, born with multiple birth defects, Doreen has her own crosses to bear. While the local law seems convinced of Doreen’s guilt, Sarah Booth isn’t so sure. But why is Doreen reluctant to talk about the men in her life? Like the televangelist who stands to lose a lot more than his flock. Or the married politician with family ties to the Mob. Either of them could be little Rebekah’s father; either of them could also be her killer.
With Halloween approaching and her own personal life up for grabs, Sarah Booth could use a little faith healing herself. Torn between a married sheriff and an old flame who’s literally sweeping her off her feet, she’d better be prepared for the fallout of her most
unpopular case yet. Justice may not stand a ghost of a chance as a decades-old secret explodes, unleashing a storm of fury on Sarah Booth and all those she loves.
Witty, suspenseful, and featuring a cast of memorable characters, Hallowed Bones is a riveting tale of faith, murder, and maternal love. It is Carolyn Haines’s most accomplished novel yet.
Bones To Pick -- Mississippi Delta #6
Bones to Pick
Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life...
Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single-handedly save her family's Mississippi plantation, converse with Dahlia House's ghost, and capture a killer or two. But when a local girl is found dead in a cotton field, it's enough to make a lady toss back a Bloody Mary before noon on Sunday.
Someone held twenty-three-year-old Quentin McGee's face down in the rich Southern soil until she suffocated. The lawmen think Quentin's lover killed her. When the suspect's brother hires Sarah to prove his sibling innocent, Sarah quickly learns that the victim had plenty of wealthy, powerful enemies. Each had a bone to pick with Quentin for writing a scandalous exposé on her hometown. Adding spice to the gumbo is the news that Quentin was due to inherit the family fortune the day after she was killed...and that a second book was in the works. From illicit lovers and outraged families to slandered aristocrats, everyone is a suspect--and no one is safe...
"Carolyn Haines has done for the Delta what Janet Evanovich has done for New Jersey." --The State
FranciJo - April 1, 2008 04:07 PM (GMT)
FranciJo's reveal:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5363006
Law school dropout Abby Knight is not your typical small-business owner. Still, she's enjoying the first bloom of success as an entrepreneur and trying not to worry too much about the thorny problem of what Bloomers (her little flower shop in New Chapel, Indiana) should do about the new local business that's undercutting her prices.
When a big black SUV crunches her beloved Corvette, parked right outside her shop early one morning, cop's daughter Abby is determined to make sure that the hit-and-run driver sees the error of his ways. But soon she has to wonder if her quarry's motives for avoiding her and the police go deeper than the desire to protect his insurance rates. Could the elusive miscreant be the killer who fled a nearby crime scene only moments before her classy car met its doom? Abby's soon on the scent, gathering leads and evidence to arrange into an elaborate bouquet of wrongdoing that she plans to present to the proper authorities. Meanwhile, the villain that Abby and her allies are pursuing lays some deadly groundwork to transform her intricate arrangement into an inquisitive florist's funeral wreath.
Mum's the Word is a delightful debut for Kate Collins's Flower Shop mystery series.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5363006
Law school dropout Abby Knight is not your typical small-business owner. Still, she's enjoying the first bloom of success as an entrepreneur and trying not to worry too much about the thorny problem of what Bloomers (her little flower shop in New Chapel, Indiana) should do about the new local business that's undercutting her prices.
When a big black SUV crunches her beloved Corvette, parked right outside her shop early one morning, cop's daughter Abby is determined to make sure that the hit-and-run driver sees the error of his ways. But soon she has to wonder if her quarry's motives for avoiding her and the police go deeper than the desire to protect his insurance rates. Could the elusive miscreant be the killer who fled a nearby crime scene only moments before her classy car met its doom? Abby's soon on the scent, gathering leads and evidence to arrange into an elaborate bouquet of wrongdoing that she plans to present to the proper authorities. Meanwhile, the villain that Abby and her allies are pursuing lays some deadly groundwork to transform her intricate arrangement into an inquisitive florist's funeral wreath.
Mum's the Word is a delightful debut for Kate Collins's Flower Shop mystery series.
CheriePie - April 1, 2008 08:07 PM (GMT)
Cherie's reveal:
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<p align="center"><b><font size="4" face="century gothic, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#2191C1">No Nest for the Wicket: A Meg Langslow Mystery</font> by Donna Andrews</font></b></p>
<p>Meg Langslow has found herself in more than one odd situation (more like ten or fifteen): She has learned to take what comes. What has currently come is a peculiar kind of croquet, very different from the polite contest played on a summer lawn. Extreme Croquet requires a terrain of several acres, in this case populated with small animals, poison ivy, and livestock. After managing, with the help of Spike the Dog, to persuade a placid cow off the next wicket, Meg loses her ball in a briar patch, trips and slides down a minor cliff, thereby being the one to discover a dead woman at the bottom. The womans head has been bashed in, possibly illustrating one of the many additional uses for a croquet mallet. But then, maybe not.</p> <p>And so begins another episode in the kind of delectable madness for which Donna Andrews has won so many honors, not to mention laughs galore. Donna Andrews introduced Meg and Michael in her Malice Domestic Contest-winning first mystery, Murder with Peacocks, and readers are still laughing. This novel swept up the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and a Lefty for funniest mystery. With No Nest for the Wicket, Andrews borrows momentum from her previous books and delivers another riotous and engrossing read.</p> <p><i>This is the 8th book in the Meg Langslow Mysteries, and though your enjoyment may be enhanced by reading them in order, it certainly is not required with this series. It is currently TBR but will be read very soon. :reading:</i></p>
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<p align="center"><b><font size="4" face="century gothic, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#2191C1">No Nest for the Wicket: A Meg Langslow Mystery</font> by Donna Andrews</font></b></p>
<p>Meg Langslow has found herself in more than one odd situation (more like ten or fifteen): She has learned to take what comes. What has currently come is a peculiar kind of croquet, very different from the polite contest played on a summer lawn. Extreme Croquet requires a terrain of several acres, in this case populated with small animals, poison ivy, and livestock. After managing, with the help of Spike the Dog, to persuade a placid cow off the next wicket, Meg loses her ball in a briar patch, trips and slides down a minor cliff, thereby being the one to discover a dead woman at the bottom. The womans head has been bashed in, possibly illustrating one of the many additional uses for a croquet mallet. But then, maybe not.</p> <p>And so begins another episode in the kind of delectable madness for which Donna Andrews has won so many honors, not to mention laughs galore. Donna Andrews introduced Meg and Michael in her Malice Domestic Contest-winning first mystery, Murder with Peacocks, and readers are still laughing. This novel swept up the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and a Lefty for funniest mystery. With No Nest for the Wicket, Andrews borrows momentum from her previous books and delivers another riotous and engrossing read.</p> <p><i>This is the 8th book in the Meg Langslow Mysteries, and though your enjoyment may be enhanced by reading them in order, it certainly is not required with this series. It is currently TBR but will be read very soon. :reading:</i></p>
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shaunesay - April 1, 2008 08:13 PM (GMT)
Amberkatze's Reveal!
Take both or choose one!
Alibi in High Heels by Gemma Halliday
Book Description
When someone frames shoe designer Maddie Springer for the death of a model while she is in Paris for Fashion Week, the amateur sleuth enlists the help of sexy cop Jack Ramirez to discover who the true murderer is.
Ghost Of A Chance by Yasmine Galenorn
Book Description
Emerald O'Brien is the owner of the Chintz 'n China Tea Room where guests are served the perfect blend of tea and tarot reading. She never set out to be a detective, but once word gets out that she can communicate with the dead, there's no turning back...
When the ghost of Susan Mitchell asks for Emerald's help in convicting her own murderer, Emerald can't refuse. Along with her friends-an ex-supermodel and a cop-and her new love interest, Emerald must search for clues to put the killer behind bars-and this tortured soul to rest.
Take both or choose one!
Alibi in High Heels by Gemma Halliday
Book Description
When someone frames shoe designer Maddie Springer for the death of a model while she is in Paris for Fashion Week, the amateur sleuth enlists the help of sexy cop Jack Ramirez to discover who the true murderer is.
Ghost Of A Chance by Yasmine Galenorn
Book Description
Emerald O'Brien is the owner of the Chintz 'n China Tea Room where guests are served the perfect blend of tea and tarot reading. She never set out to be a detective, but once word gets out that she can communicate with the dead, there's no turning back...
When the ghost of Susan Mitchell asks for Emerald's help in convicting her own murderer, Emerald can't refuse. Along with her friends-an ex-supermodel and a cop-and her new love interest, Emerald must search for clues to put the killer behind bars-and this tortured soul to rest.
cheesygiraffe - April 2, 2008 02:48 AM (GMT)
Shaunie's Reveal:
Coffeehouse Mystery #5: Decaffeinated Corpse - Cleo Coyle
When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.
BC Link= http://www.bookcrossinc.com/journal/6006902
Coffeehouse Mystery #5: Decaffeinated Corpse - Cleo Coyle
When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.
BC Link= http://www.bookcrossinc.com/journal/6006902
cheesygiraffe - April 2, 2008 12:49 PM (GMT)
Gotham's reveal:
Dying to Call You: Dead End Job Mystery #3 by Elaine Viets
Book Description
While making the best of her new telemarketing job, Helen Hawthorne thinks she hears a murder on the other end of the line-and must avoid a close call with a killer.
Dying to Call You: Dead End Job Mystery #3 by Elaine Viets
Book Description
While making the best of her new telemarketing job, Helen Hawthorne thinks she hears a murder on the other end of the line-and must avoid a close call with a killer.
spiderchic - April 3, 2008 09:46 AM (GMT)
Spiderchic's reveal
Sofie Metropolis by Tori Carrington
'Sofie's family is in the restaurant business . . . both her father's and her grandfather's. She's been a waitress in both. Her life was all set as she prepared for her wedding day. But an early arrival at the church caused Sofie to discover his fiancé engaged in what he shouldn't have been doing with her maid of honor. Sofie calls off the wedding on the spot, keeps the ring and wedding presents . . . and heads off on the "honeymoon" trip alone. Along the way, she appears on a reality television show where she tastes some pretty unappetizing fare. Back "home" she moves into her own apartment building (a wedding present from her parents) but is too shy to collect rent from the tenants except for the one who pays almost nothing.
What's she to do? Sofie decides a life change is in order. She asks for and gets a job in her uncle's private detective agency which specializes in serving process papers. She buys all the gear, but is new in her learning as this book opens.
No one takes her PI work seriously. Her mother, neighbors and even her co-workers think they can ask her to work for free. But when no one else is around one day at the agency, Sofie gets a client . . . a husband who wants proof that his wife is cheating on him. Sofie doesn't like this sort of case, but she does appreciate having a human to trail rather than a missing pet. Soon, her mother browbeats her into looking for a neighbor's lost dog and she's also investigating a missing potential "vampire."
Her seemingly humdrum life takes a big turn, however, when a gunfight breaks out while she's trailing the wife . . . and she uncovers a dead man. But Jake Porter, a mysterious bounty hunter (or is he more?) from Australia is around to clean up matters. From there, Sofie finds herself at least one step behind Jake . . . and wishing to get a lot closer. He's amused, but holds her at arms length. How will she get his attention?'
Sofie Metropolis by Tori Carrington
'Sofie's family is in the restaurant business . . . both her father's and her grandfather's. She's been a waitress in both. Her life was all set as she prepared for her wedding day. But an early arrival at the church caused Sofie to discover his fiancé engaged in what he shouldn't have been doing with her maid of honor. Sofie calls off the wedding on the spot, keeps the ring and wedding presents . . . and heads off on the "honeymoon" trip alone. Along the way, she appears on a reality television show where she tastes some pretty unappetizing fare. Back "home" she moves into her own apartment building (a wedding present from her parents) but is too shy to collect rent from the tenants except for the one who pays almost nothing.
What's she to do? Sofie decides a life change is in order. She asks for and gets a job in her uncle's private detective agency which specializes in serving process papers. She buys all the gear, but is new in her learning as this book opens.
No one takes her PI work seriously. Her mother, neighbors and even her co-workers think they can ask her to work for free. But when no one else is around one day at the agency, Sofie gets a client . . . a husband who wants proof that his wife is cheating on him. Sofie doesn't like this sort of case, but she does appreciate having a human to trail rather than a missing pet. Soon, her mother browbeats her into looking for a neighbor's lost dog and she's also investigating a missing potential "vampire."
Her seemingly humdrum life takes a big turn, however, when a gunfight breaks out while she's trailing the wife . . . and she uncovers a dead man. But Jake Porter, a mysterious bounty hunter (or is he more?) from Australia is around to clean up matters. From there, Sofie finds herself at least one step behind Jake . . . and wishing to get a lot closer. He's amused, but holds her at arms length. How will she get his attention?'
sejent - April 3, 2008 04:22 PM (GMT)
My reveal:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (TBR)
"Hannah already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother's attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden's most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can't get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn't watch her back, Hannah's sweet life may get burned to a crisp."
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (TBR)
"Hannah already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother's attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden's most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can't get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn't watch her back, Hannah's sweet life may get burned to a crisp."
cheesygiraffe - April 5, 2008 01:15 PM (GMT)
Shelby's reveal:
The Ghost & Mrs McClure by Alice Kimberly
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4935043
Penelope Thornton-McClure manages a Rhode Island bookshop rumored to be haunted. When a bestselling author drops dead signing books, the first clue of foul play comes from the store's full-time ghost-a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen's overactive imagination? Or is the likable, fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime?