Book Review: Jane K. Cleland’s Deadly Appraisal
]Her antiques business thriving and so much to lose, Josie Prescott can’t help but worry when murder invades her seemingly quiet community.
]Her antiques business thriving and so much to lose, Josie Prescott can’t help but worry when murder invades her seemingly quiet community.
On Tom and Faith’s 20th anniversary, it’s a flashback to a month after The Body in the Big Apple when Faith will have to Have Faith that life up in the wilds of Massachusetts won’t be so bad
Annie and Max get married but Ingrid calls at midnight for help. It’s murder, and she’s being framed. Then she disappears, and Posey decides she’s the murderer.
Public health inspector Poppy Markham returns to the family kitchen to help only for the guest of honor, Michelin-rated chef Évariste Bontecou, to be found stabbed to death with her sister’s knife. Could it be the bad-boy sous chef, the conniving waitress, or Poppy’s sister?
The local summer stock production is under siege: sabotage, butchered lines, bedhopping. When murder happens, the prosecutor tries to pin it on Max Darling.
Annie Laurence’s plans for the Mystery Nights for the house-and-garden tour go all awry when a corpse turns up in the town pond.
Bonding with the in-laws, an embezzling Tom Fairchild, and nasty letters hearkening back to a murder in the 1920s keep everyone on their toes.
The body in the bog is almost the least of the problems facing Faith Fairchild as Aleford celebrates Patriots’ Day while battling evil land developers.
A wrenching Christmas in Sanpere when Faith Fairchild discovers a body in the sleigh and a newborn babe appears in a manger, the events revealing the truth.
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Crunch Timeby Diane Mott Davidson amateur sleuth, cozy mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by William Morrow on April 5, 2011 and has 471 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Sixteenth in the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries cozy mystery series set in the Aspen area in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado with an amateur sleuth of a chef. My Take While I enjoy the homey qualities of this series — Tom is so very patient and I just love the descriptions of the food that everyone creates in this story, I’m getting rather tired of Goldy. She’s so nosy and I don’t really see where she can really do that much anymore now that pretty much everyone in town knows about her detecting. I’m rather surprised that Tom hasn’t dumped her for being such a pain. And I miss Julian. Nor was there much interaction with Marla or Archie; things are rather tame without the Jerk. Not that I didn’t cheer when he died! This story just has a rather tired […]