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Summary: Bridget's Back!
Review: At last, another Bridget Montrose mystery. Yes, she is often a featured character in the Ms. Roberts' Liz Sullivan mysteries, but it's good to have her back as the central sleuth. Ms. Roberts explores the hazards of the writing profession. Bridget is offered an opportunity to take time away from her hectic family life in Palo Alto and to attend a writers' conference near Santa Cruz. As usual, Lora's colorful descriptions of the Davenport environs, complete with where to buy pottery, good food and find fine surfing beaches, are as accurate and provocative as a great travel guide. Her characters are drawn full of life, spite, secrets, lust and need for lucre, perfect to be both victim and murderer. A very fine read from the talented, delightful Lora Roberts.
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Summary: Idyll Interrupted
Review: For anyone interested in the mysteries of creativity, this is a highly entertaining peek into the egos and insecurities of a bunch of writers gathered on the California coast for a glorious two weeks of delicious food, gratifying productivity, and civilized companionship with others of their kind. Or so they hoped.
When the rifts and stresses start to show up almost immediately, along with tantalizing glimpses into several of the authors' questionable pasts, it's reassuring to observe them from the point of view of the steadiest one of all, Bridget Montrose, a sympathetic character with a healthy curiosity. (Bridget is not only a writer but also something of a natural sleuth.)
Although nasty things start to happen, they are never unpleasant enough to interfere with a good night's sleep - the reader's, that is, though for Bridget things are not so peaceful. (This book makes great bedtime reading). A writers' retreat may never again look like an idyll. But appropriately enough, a kind of poetic justice emerges in the end. Diana R. Roome
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Summary: Enjoyable and not too gory
Review: I liked this book a lot, even if there isn't much Liz Sullivan in it. Bridget is a writer who is having writers block at a time when she really needs to produce another book. She is really looking forward to going to a writers retreat so she can work on her new book, but things don't go smoothly. This is a must read for those who like Agatha Christie-type mysteries where a group of people is isolated and a murder happens. It's funny and there's not a lot of gore, but plenty of suspense. I even gave it to my mother-in-law because she doesn't like a lot of blood and foul language.
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Summary: This one's a winner!
Review: If you're interested in what goes on in those exclusive writer's colonies we're always hearing about, you'll love this book!! Lora Roberts had created a group of characters that are fun to read about and a murder that's hard to solve. What more could anyone want?
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Summary: delightful cozy
Review: Not many aspiring writers get to see their dreams come true but Bridget Montrose, married with four young children, is one of the lucky few. Her first book was bought by a major publishing house and has made the New York Times bestseller list. Now the pressure is on from her editor and her agent to produce another bestseller but Bridget can't write a single world. When she gets a grant to attend a writer's retreat at the Ars Ranch she looks forward to the opportunity to write without any distractions. The first two days she is there writes thirty pages but her muse deserts her when one of her peers is killed. Everyone falls under suspicion, especially Bridget, who has a tendency to become involved in homicide cases. ANOTHER FINE MESS is a delightful cozy starring a protagonist most people can identify with and understand. There is a surplus of suspects because everyone (except Bridget) had a reason to hate the murder victim. All the candidates seem plausible so readers won't find out who the perpetrator is until the very last page. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: delightful cozy
Review: Not many aspiring writers get to see their dreams come true but Bridget Montrose, married with four young children, is one of the lucky few. Her first book was bought by a major publishing house and has made the New York Times bestseller list. Now the pressure is on from her editor and her agent to produce another bestseller but Bridget can't write a single world. When she gets a grant to attend a writer's retreat at the Ars Ranch she looks forward to the opportunity to write without any distractions. The first two days she is there writes thirty pages but her muse deserts her when one of her peers is killed. Everyone falls under suspicion, especially Bridget, who has a tendency to become involved in homicide cases. ANOTHER FINE MESS is a delightful cozy starring a protagonist most people can identify with and understand. There is a surplus of suspects because everyone (except Bridget) had a reason to hate the murder victim. All the candidates seem plausible so readers won't find out who the perpetrator is until the very last page. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: great reading
Review: This is the best book yet by a wonderful author. Bridget goes on a writer's retreat with a mix of other authors from the very famous to the self-published. This in itself is a fun peek at the inside world of writers and how they think. The characters are unique and well developed, and I liked that they are neither all good or all bad, though each of them has a motive for murder and many of them are annoying enough to be murdered. The writing is very smooth, almost poetic at times, and I felt I was right there at the retreat on the ocean. For fans of the author's other series, Liz Sullivan makes several appearances in this book, as do characters from that series. But it is Bridget's book, and she's a great person to spend time with.
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