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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Fremont and Michael are working on a case for a railroad, the train is blown up and the badly injured Fremont is kidnapped by a fanatical Mormon looking for a sixth wife. It really doesn't get any better from here. Meiling Li is back and assisting Michael, but her wardrobe rather than her character and talent is more discussed. Basically, Fremont and Michael are much better together than apart and should stay that way. Skip this one and read the rest of the series, an author can't be perfect every time.
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Summary: Interesting historical cozy
Review: Fremont Jones is an attractive, independent PI with a charming partner named Michael Archer who is now known as Michael Kossoff. Their relationship is growing along with their new PI business the J& K Agency. Fremont and Michael are hired to find out who is causing problems with the Southern Pacific Railroad. But they never reach their destination. After an explosion Fremont wakes to find herself bedridden in a possessive Mormon's home and he has no plans of letting her go. Michael with the help of a friend returns by train in search of Fremont but what he finds is danger.I found it to be an easy quick read and even heard a little woo woo music from time to time as I read. It's light on mystery, heavy on effects, with an ending I did not expect. A great read for Fremont fans.
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Summary: Don't Bother.
Review: Having thoroughly enjoyed all the other Fremont Jones books, I was sorely disappointed with "Death Train to Boston" .There was no mystery to speak of,no real sense of place ( Dianne Day always excelled at this ) and the characters were poorly defined. So many questions were left unresolved that I can only assume that this book was written as a lead-in to the next in the series.Do yourself a favor and skip it .
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Summary: There was a special reason for writing DEATH TRAIN TO BOSTON
Review: Hello everyone. I wanted to let all readers know upfront thatone-third of DEATH TRAIN TO BOSTON is written from MichaelArcher-Kossoff's point of view, in third person. I did this because I'd had many requests for more about Michael, more about his mysterious background, what is he really like, how does he think and why, and so on. I thought the best way to do this would be to separate him from Fremont (most of the books in this mystery series are in first person from her point of view) so that he could speak for himself. Because Michael is, essentially, an adventurous person by nature and by his own personal history, this book became as much an adventure story as a mystery. The book that follows this one, BEACON STREET MOURNING, returns to the classic mystery format. I appreciate Amazon.com's opportunity to allow me to post this, as I've had many questions along these lines...
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Summary: Maybe Day ran into a deadline or something...
Review: I didn't really consider this a mystery in the strictest of senses. A train blows up and separates two people and the story is really of them finding one another again. It's a well written book which goes back and forth between the two lives. My biggest dissapointment was not knowing what happend the the Pratt wives.
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Summary: good
Review: I didn't really consider this a mystery in the strictest of senses. A train blows up and separates two people and the story is really of them finding one another again. It's a well written book which goes back and forth between the two lives. My biggest dissapointment was not knowing what happend the the Pratt wives.
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: I disagree with the other reviewer. I like this book as much as the others. The one thing that I really love about these mystries is that Ms. Day keeps you on your toes! The author is full of surprises. AND THAT IS WHY I READ MYSTRIES! You don't know what to expect in each book. In this one, you get a much deeper understanding of Michael and their relationship. Yes, they do love each other very much. In between, Michael's search for Fremont and Fremont trying to get to Michael, there is a very good mystery involving that train. That Ms. Day doesn't forget about. This book too is crammed with loads of "Stuff", that makes a really good mystery. You Go Ms. Day, keep us on our toes. Come on next installment! I can hardly wait.
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Summary: Little Mystery that Couldn't
Review: I have enjoyed Ms. Day's Fremont Jones mysteries. They are a bit anachronistic, a bit light on real mystery but still very enjoyable reads. However Death Train to Boston was certainly the worst of the series, so far (am reading Beacon Street Mourning now and even 30 pages in it is a better book). There was no mystery to this mystery; it was simply a chronicle of Fremont and Michael trying to get back together after a horrific train accident. There was certainly no mystery where the religious fanatic was concerned. I rather hoped he would involved in the sabotage of the S&P that Fremont and Michael were investigating or attached to some other nefarious scheme but I was disappointed. There was no investigation of the sabotage whatsoever, just some half-baked thoughts Michael offered the readers. While finding the woman he loves was very important, if he thought there was some sort of connection shouldn't he have been doing some snooping to confirm or deny that connection rather than hand wringing and grumphing? Please do not get me started on throwing in the bad guy in the last 30 pages with no support as to WHY he was sabotaging the S&P since it was made clear to the reader J&K were called in secretly. Harrumph! Ms. Day fell into a very nasty habit of repeating herself when it came to emphasizing a character's feelings or thoughts; sometimes four or five paragraph's worth of repetition. The action, such as it was, neither moved the plot along nor provided closure to any portion of that very thin plot. The plot thrashed about with internal discussions and chit chat. Mysteries are action based not character based, Elizabeth George aside, and Ms. Day seems to have forgotten that very important point - she had a good handle on it in her previous books. There were so many chances to introduce any number of subplots; i.e. Meiling Li's transformation beyond what we were told rather than shown, the S&P sabotage plot, a possible romantic flirtation between Meiling and Michael (I can hear fans muttering angrily already), a chance for a San Francisco case Wish was handling to be tied to all this, the possibility of Melancthon Pratt being far more treachorous and cunning than a mediocre stock heavy, the heavy-handed introduction of Hilliard Ramsey could have signalled so many future possibilities for stories.... do I need to go on? We are served up something that reads more like poorly edited journal entries than a story. Editors are getting lazier and lazier when they allow this sort of drivel to be published when even a casual reader of Ms. Day's work can see that she has written stories with far more craft and style than this book. Very, very disappointed in this entry in the series.
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Summary: Little Mystery that Couldn't
Review: I have enjoyed Ms. Day's Fremont Jones mysteries. They are a bit anachronistic, a bit light on real mystery but still very enjoyable reads. However Death Train to Boston was certainly the worst of the series, so far (am reading Beacon Street Mourning now and even 30 pages in it is a better book). There was no mystery to this mystery; it was simply a chronicle of Fremont and Michael trying to get back together after a horrific train accident. There was certainly no mystery where the religious fanatic was concerned. I rather hoped he would involved in the sabotage of the S&P that Fremont and Michael were investigating or attached to some other nefarious scheme but I was disappointed. There was no investigation of the sabotage whatsoever, just some half-baked thoughts Michael offered the readers. While finding the woman he loves was very important, if he thought there was some sort of connection shouldn't he have been doing some snooping to confirm or deny that connection rather than hand wringing and grumphing? Please do not get me started on throwing in the bad guy in the last 30 pages with no support as to WHY he was sabotaging the S&P since it was made clear to the reader J&K were called in secretly. Harrumph! Ms. Day fell into a very nasty habit of repeating herself when it came to emphasizing a character's feelings or thoughts; sometimes four or five paragraph's worth of repetition. The action, such as it was, neither moved the plot along nor provided closure to any portion of that very thin plot. The plot thrashed about with internal discussions and chit chat. Mysteries are action based not character based, Elizabeth George aside, and Ms. Day seems to have forgotten that very important point - she had a good handle on it in her previous books. There were so many chances to introduce any number of subplots; i.e. Meiling Li's transformation beyond what we were told rather than shown, the S&P sabotage plot, a possible romantic flirtation between Meiling and Michael (I can hear fans muttering angrily already), a chance for a San Francisco case Wish was handling to be tied to all this, the possibility of Melancthon Pratt being far more treachorous and cunning than a mediocre stock heavy, the heavy-handed introduction of Hilliard Ramsey could have signalled so many future possibilities for stories.... do I need to go on? We are served up something that reads more like poorly edited journal entries than a story. Editors are getting lazier and lazier when they allow this sort of drivel to be published when even a casual reader of Ms. Day's work can see that she has written stories with far more craft and style than this book. Very, very disappointed in this entry in the series.
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Summary: Not Quite as Good as the Previous Fremont Jones Mysteries
Review: I have read all of the books in the Fremont Jones series. I was a little disappointed in "Death Train to Boston", mostly due to the change in writing style. Without giving too much away, Fremont is injured in a train wreck at the onset of the book ~ this results in her character being very passive throughout the story. I prefer the previous novels where Fremont has a more active role. Also, the book constantly flips back and forth from Fremont to Michael, which keeps you reading but can be frustrating. Just when something interesting is about to happen, the action flips to the other character. The good side of this, however, is that the reader gets to see more into Michael's feelings for Fremont. Overall a very good book, and definitely worth reading. It's just not up to speed with the previous novels in the series.
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