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Summary: Mad Madeline
Review: Thank you, Amazon.com for recommending this series to me. If you want a good sit down and read the book kind of book, this is for you. I could not put it down! I laughed out loud! I have other members of the family reading MB.
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Summary: Mad Madeline
Review: Thank you, Amazon.com for recommending this series to me. If you want a good sit down and read the book kind of book, this is for you. I could not put it down! I laughed out loud! I have other members of the family reading MB.
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Summary: Killer Wedding
Review: The book was somewhat entertaining, but flawed by startling dangling participles, "Climbing up my front steps, the mighty river...."Sitting at a booth at Kate Mantellini's, the table in front of me.....", and bad grammar, "soon we were both laying on the kitchen counter..." If publishing companies no longer edit books, perhaps they should distribute grammar books to their authors.
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Summary: This won't be Ms. Farmer's last book for me!
Review: This is the first novel I've read by Jerrilyn Farmer, but her first two are in my ToBeRead pile. Farmer's writing is witty, entertaining and well-wrought in the ways of humorous mysteries. The cast of secondary characters is manageable so that you don't need a score card to keep track of them and she gives the heroine Madeline Bean a generous share of male attentiveness as the plucky caterer cum sleuth picks her way through a debacle of a wedding to discover who killed the wedding planner and used her body as a dinosaurian accessory. If you're a fan of Diane Mott Davidson, Sophie Dunbar or any of the writers of humorous mystery, you will enjoy Killer Wedding. Note to Ms. Farmer: Please....less Arlo and *much* more Chuck Honnett
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Summary: breezy mystery set in Beverly Hills
Review: This is the fourth mystery in the Madeline Bean Catering Mystery series, and if you enjoyed the previous installments, you will not be disappointed here. Madeline is in the middle of professional litigation, love troubles and boredom brought on by her enforced unemployment. She is invited to a posh wedding and plans to use the occasion to let wedding planner Vivian Duncan know that she really does not intend to take over Duncan's business -- until the planner turns up dead on the skeleton of a triceratops. Enmeshed in the wedding and worried the police are after the wrong suspect, Madeline becomes active in her own investigation. The mystery is fun and is resolved satisfactorily. Maddie is an intelligent heroine and her charming colleagues, Wesley and Holly, are here also. We witness many interesting and delectable dishes being prepared, and we get a bit of Hollywood gossip thrown in. This is a fun mystery with likeable characters.
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Summary: breezy mystery set in Beverly Hills
Review: This is the fourth mystery in the Madeline Bean Catering Mystery series, and if you enjoyed the previous installments, you will not be disappointed here. Madeline is in the middle of professional litigation, love troubles and boredom brought on by her enforced unemployment. She is invited to a posh wedding and plans to use the occasion to let wedding planner Vivian Duncan know that she really does not intend to take over Duncan's business -- until the planner turns up dead on the skeleton of a triceratops. Enmeshed in the wedding and worried the police are after the wrong suspect, Madeline becomes active in her own investigation. The mystery is fun and is resolved satisfactorily. Maddie is an intelligent heroine and her charming colleagues, Wesley and Holly, are here also. We witness many interesting and delectable dishes being prepared, and we get a bit of Hollywood gossip thrown in. This is a fun mystery with likeable characters.
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Summary: quick and easy summer reading.....
Review: This story was quick and easy, almost like an amusing made for TV movie. The plot lines while "detailed" were so far out there as to be all but believable, but then, that may be the charm of this book. Madeline Bean, the main character thinks lots of cute thoughts, constantly. She really enjoys her career as a caterer, and handles murder as well as dinner for thousands. Her associates are very different too. I was hoping that there would be recipes tucked in among the pages, but no such luck. On the other side, this story could only take place, believable or not, in Southern California, where for some, money is no object and extreme and ostentatious are the ordinary. This is a fast and easy read for poolside, or if yiou are lucky enough, at the beach!
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Summary: quick and easy summer reading.....
Review: This story was quick and easy, almost like an amusing made for TV movie. The plot lines while "detailed" were so far out there as to be all but believable, but then, that may be the charm of this book. Madeline Bean, the main character thinks lots of cute thoughts, constantly. She really enjoys her career as a caterer, and handles murder as well as dinner for thousands. Her associates are very different too. I was hoping that there would be recipes tucked in among the pages, but no such luck. On the other side, this story could only take place, believable or not, in Southern California, where for some, money is no object and extreme and ostentatious are the ordinary. This is a fast and easy read for poolside, or if yiou are lucky enough, at the beach!
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Summary: Light Fun and Very Enjoyable
Review: This was my first Madeline Bean mystery, and I was really happy to find a new and hip mystery series. I loved her friends, and I thought that the mystery itself was well written, and kept my interest throughout. I would definitely recommend this book.
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Summary: Light Fun and Very Enjoyable
Review: This was my first Madeline Bean mystery, and I was really happy to find a new and hip mystery series. I loved her friends, and I thought that the mystery itself was well written, and kept my interest throughout. I would definitely recommend this book.
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