McRae’s series has covered a wide range of craft projects. Her latest offers a tutorial on mead and a dash of soapmaking,...
A thrift-store bargain turns sinister for Washington State soapmaker Sophie Mae Ambrose and her police-detective husband Barr.
After Barr picks up some used mini-cassettes for his recorder, their housemate’s teenaged daughter Erin, whose bump of curiosity leads her to listen to the tapes, finds that they contain a therapist’s notes indicating that one of her clients may be planning a murder. Barr, already knee-deep in a difficult case in Cadyville, has no time to follow up the clue, but Sophie Mae, who’s had success before as an amateur sleuth (Something Borrowed, Something Bleu, 2010, etc.), dives in despite Barr’s stern warnings. Although the therapist isn’t available to confirm the import of the discovery because she’s died young of a massive heart attack, the tapes identify the possible target as a member of the Swenson family. That wealthy clan is involved in Grendel Meadery, a company that makes and exports various types of honey-based mead. Both the family and the company are headed by tough-minded Dorothy, who rules her four grandchildren with an iron hand. When Dorothy’s grandson Quentin dies of a massive heart attack, the police take notice, but it’s still up to Sophie Mae to figure out who hates the Swenson family enough to kill.
McRae’s series has covered a wide range of craft projects. Her latest offers a tutorial on mead and a dash of soapmaking, all wrapped around a credible mystery.Pub Date: July 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7387-2334-1
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Midnight Ink/Llewellyn
Review Posted Online: April 3, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2011
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This ran in the S.E.P. and resulted in more demands for the story in book form than ever recorded. Well, here it is and it is a honey. Imagine ten people, not knowing each other, not knowing why they were invited on a certain island house-party, not knowing their hosts. Then imagine them dead, one by one, until none remained alive, nor any clue to the murderer. Grand suspense, a unique trick, expertly handled.
Pub Date: Feb. 21, 1939
ISBN: 0062073478
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1939
SEEN & HEARD
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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