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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated Digging Up the Dirt (Southern Ladies Mystery, #3) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

The Athena Garden Club is all buzzing about the return of Hadley Partridge to town. When he left forty years ago, he was the most eligible bachelor in town, and some of the ladies want to pick up where they left off. An’gel and Dickce Ducote aren’t among them, but they can’t help but be pulled in when Hadley’s return brings up a secret from the past. When a dead body and an old skeleton turn up, can these sisters solve the crime?

It was wonderful catching back up with An’gel and Dickce. I love the characters in this series, and it was fun to see Athena from a different point of view. The story starts strongly and never slows down. I did feel the ending was weaker than it could have been, although it does tie every up nicely for us.

NOTE: I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2016/09/book-review-digging-up-dirt-by-miranda.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Sue (5 KP) rated Death al Fresco in Books

Aug 13, 2018

Death al Fresco

Leslie Karst | 2018 | Mystery

7.8

(4 Ratings)

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Sally Solari is working very hard to make a name for herself at her recently inherited restaurant, but her father has different plans. He doesn’t seem to remember that she no longer works at the family restaurant Solaris’ and keeps pulling her in. While taking an open-air painting class of the Monterey Bay coastline, Sally’s dog Buster finds a corpse tangled up in the kelp.

The body is identified as Gino, a local fisherman and regular patron at Solaris’. Is it true what everyone is saying? Is Sally’s dad negligent for allowing an inebriated customer to leave the restaurant alone at night? Witnesses claim that Gino was drunk when he left the restaurant, but his waitress swears that she only served him to beers with a full meal. Can she find out the truth before her father’s reputation and that on his restaurant goes down the drain?

This is not your average cozy mystery full of cuteness. Sally is a smart and multifaceted character that has you cheering for her to find the bad guys.

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Tim McGuire (301 KP) rated Compliance (2012) in Movies

Mar 14, 2020

Compliance (2012)

2012 | Documentary, Drama, Mystery

8.0

(2 Ratings)

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Old Movie Revisited: Compliance. This one is a based on true events situation as well... Remember awhile back when some moronic genius called a fast food restaurant and convinced the manager that they were a cop and accused an employee of stealing some cash, and had the employee strip searched by the super smart manager? Well yea, its based on that. It was a good movie considering its subject matter, and it really makes you wonder how fucking stupid these people were to believe that a police officer would instruct you to do any of the things the prank caller told them to do! At first I thought the film embellished the events quite a bit, but according to a few sites I checked out, it was all true. Strip searching, body cavity search, spanking, even performing sex acts, no this isn't Fifty Shades of Grey... And the worse part is the only suspect they ever had, David R. Stewart, was acquitted of all charges... Crazy! So check it out for a perfect example of ultimate stupidity of stupid people! Filmbufftim on FB