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Good Eggs

Rebecca Hardiman

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Meet the Gogartys: cantankerous gran Millie (whose eccentricities include a penchant for petty-theft...

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Steamborn (The Steamborn Series #1)

Eric. R Asher

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A supernatural swarm. A treacherous scheme. A tinker’s apprentice may be the village’s only...

Steamborn Eric R. Asher

Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK

Larry Welch

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Ma Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known...

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Online privacy is hard to maintain, especially on the go, but IPVanish makes it easy. We mask your...

Gangster Rio City: Crime Simulator 3D Full

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The rivalry between criminals and police takes a new twist! Build your own crime business in Rio!...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2059 KP) rated Oliver Twisted (Ivy Meadows #3) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Ivy and her PI uncle Bob are working on a case together as they go undercover on the Get Lit! ship the S.S. David Copperfield. They are trying to track down the people behind a rash of petty theft that have been plaguing the literature themed cruise company. As part of her cover, Ivy is working in Oliver! At Sea!, the ships current play. However, the ship has barely left when Ivy finds her roommate stuffed into their closet. Have the thieves escalated to murder?

This is another delightful romp with Ivy. There are some fun distractions and twists before she begins to put the pieces of the case together, and the way everything comes together at the end is masterful. Ivy’s cast mates are also the suspects, and we get to know them very well, yet the regular characters we’ve met in Phoenix still get to pop in, mostly via a sub-plot Ivy is trying to help with over phone calls. Throw in some delightful humor and you have another winner.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2017/02/book-review-oliver-twisted-by-cindy.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2059 KP) rated Death on the Menu in Books

Aug 8, 2018

Political Conference Derailed by Theft and Murder

Key West is hosting a conference with some leading dignitaries from Cuba, and Hayley Snow’s mom has landed the plumb catering gig, with Hayley among those helping out. The conference is being greeted with protests, and tensions are high. They only get worse when an artifact on loan from Cuba, is stolen. Then a man helping Hayley’s mom is murdered. Are the two events connected?

I have missed this series, and it was so fantastic to be back. This book has now added two more must visit locations on my bucket list trip to Key West, Harry Truman’s Little White House and Hemingway’s house. The politics of the US Cuban relationship is front and center and handled in a mostly even-handed manner. The politics and the drama around the conference to tend to overshadow the mystery at times, especially in the first half. Things do build to a great climax, however. And it was great to see Hayley and her friends again. Fans will be interested to see the latest in Hayley’s complicated love life, and we get to see plenty of Miss Gloria. This truly was a fun visit.