Books by Joanna Campbell Slan
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review 1: Jane Eyre is my favorite book ever, so I was interested to see how this series would turn out. I was a little worried, however, at the idea of Jane Eyre as a mystery-solver. I mean, I love Jane with all my heart, don't get me wrong, but we are talking about a woman who could not...
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review 1: KiKi attempts to solve the murder of an attendee to a scrapbooking party before it destroys her friends and the company she works for. In the process, she learns a lot about her daughter (preteen, need I say more), draws closer to the mother of her recently deceased husband, and...
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review 1: Where is the dislike button? I have been loving all the books in the series...some more than others.....but all in all, I felt like this was a good series. Then along came Picture Perfect Corpse. I found myself shaking my head many times, wondering WHERE did that come from? P...
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review 1: Number Four in the Kiki series. I'm not a scrapbooker but this book really inspired me to start seriously thinking about it. So many ways of using it - to display your life, to help your memories, to catch a serial killer!! This was my favorite in the series so far - so many nice...
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review 1: Great fun book - definitely fun and cheering - my life could never be as confusing and busy as kiki's! I got confused at the start of this book only because it turns out I read it out of sequence!! Once I got that sorted out, I was away - I didn't care to wait for the library to ...
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review 1: I liked this book more than I expected. Something about the first pages made me feel the author was trying too hard to push her knowledge of the St. Louis setting and it wasn't required info for the plot. Although initially the main character who narrates the story seems naive (o...
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review 1: I like this series. For a cozy mystery in the setting of scrapbooking, it does well. It is not as mundane as some that are based around a creative interest. The characters are colorful and well drawn. I like Kiki. She is strong and smart and very human. She has her moments ...
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review 1: The second book in the series - and Ms Slan does it again. She manages to balance the mystery, the every-woman feeling and the scrapbooking really well. I loved learning little bits about scrapbooking and learning that scrapbookers are like the fans of every other craft - they lo...