A St. Just Mystery (4 books in series)
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review 1: This was an okay mystery novel. It wasn't one of my favorites. It took about 100 pages to finally get the death that is mentioned in the synopsis. The first 100 pages is kind of just a filler of back stories. It wasn't a thrilling lead up to the death either. I did like the writi...
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review 1: Disappointing. I liked her other book, Death and the Lit Chick, much better. In this one, the murder happens too early on - before I had even straightened out who was whom - and the characters themselves turned out to be pretty underdeveloped. I didn't much care about any of th...
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review 1: What fun! G.M. Malliet spoofs many aspects of "chick lit" and murder-mystery writers in this funny novel about a collection of mystery writers, agents and a publisher or two who are attending a Writers Conference in Edinburgh and staying in a castle/hotel together. Of course, o...
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review 1: I am happy to have found a new mystery writer and one with a sense of humor! While the story wasn't terribly deep, who expected that anyway with a title like this one. G.M. Malliet has a light hand and develops the characters well. It wasn't hard to figure out who to like and ...