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Summary: A Groom with a View
Review: Interesting plot with a surprise ending. Churchill has done it again!
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Summary: Enjoyable Reading
Review: Jane and pal Shelley continue to find creative ways to get into trouble. I have enjoyed each of the Jane Jeffry books and it has been great fun to see her change with children growing up just as our children are growing up and we are changing. Fun reading
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Summary: Enjoyable Reading
Review: Jane and pal Shelley continue to find creative ways to get into trouble. I have enjoyed each of the Jane Jeffry books and it has been great fun to see her change with children growing up just as our children are growing up and we are changing. Fun reading
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Summary: Here Comes the Corpse?
Review: Jane Jeffry is planning a wedding. No she is not the bride, her role is the wedding planner. While Jane and frend Shelly trie to turn the hunting lodge of the bride's family into a beautiful place for a wedding Jane has to deal with intering aunts, a florist who is digging up the land and a dressmaker who does not have the bridemaids' dresses ready. Oh did I lmost forgot, the seamstress is dead and the groom becomes the killer's next target.This is another wonderful installment in the Jane Jeffry series. I could harsly wait for Jane and Shelly"s next adventure.
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Summary: Jane Jeffry is a bouncer.
Review: No, she doesn't work as one, but she always seems to bounce back--gracefully and easily--from the somewhat strange events in her life. Or, to put it another way, she bounces the lemons handed to her by life (which everyone knows is the way to make a lemon produce more juice) and turns them into stunning versions of lemonade, lemon pie, or whatever strikes her fancy. Of course, the forty-something widow also has three wonderful kids, a full-steam-ahead next door neighbor and best friend, Shelley Nowack, and a to-die-for-guy, police detective Mel VanDyne. Well, maybe not quite so far on that latter, but he is a 'certified' dish, no doubt about it. Even better, he seems to really like and respect Jane as a person. High marks in anyone's book, I should think. If you've read any of the previous atrociously-punned titles about Jane, et al, you know that she and Shelley seem to find trouble under nearly every cabbage leaf they stumble over. The most recent book was no exception, distributing corpses for Christmas. But, out of that unseeming circumstance, an unusual opportunity made itself known to Jane. Livvy Thatcher is getting married, and being so impressed with Jane's management of the Christmas debacle, she asks Jane to organize and plan her wedding. Well, Jane's never done this before, but neither is she one to let such a trifling detail get in her way. Problem number one is the scene of the wedding. It is an old family estate--complete with tales of ghost and buried treasure--some hour-and-a-half west (or thereabouts) of Chicago; a former hunting lodge that had previously been a monastery. Disregarding her qualms, Jane plunges in, arranging flowers (you, too, will 'love' Larkspur!), food, bridesmaid's dresses, the bride's gown, and the music, not to mention assigning rooms to the stay-over guests, either at the lodge or the nearest motel. She didn't however, arrange for murder. That was problem number two, and brings Mel to the scene to confer with the local constabulary. Problem number six or so is the semi-reluctance of the bride to get to the point of being able to say 'I do'. Not to worry. Livvy may indeed be married, but she's not going to be a wife. At least not for a while yet. An assortment of oddly-matched guests, and even more odd family on both sides, suddenly seem to swirl all around the not-so-very festivities before Jane manages to unveil the killer. I loved the different setting and the somewhat more-than-eccentric elderly Aunts and Uncle, and all the big and little details that Jane had to master in order to produce a perfectly beautiful wedding. But--although the killer and the motive for having done so did make a certain amount of sense within the confines of the story, it still sort of came out of left field. There really wasn't much build-up in the way of clues as to just who really was the fiend. Or why. Still, though, once unmasked, there could have been no other culprit. Will Jane continue in her new career field? Stay tuned. . .
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Summary: I Love Jane and Shelly!
Review: This installment of Jill Churchill's Jane Jeffry series is a bit of a disappointment. I did enjoy reading it, but missed the snap that Jane and Shelly have together. Oddly, a lot of the messes that they get into in other books are missing too. Ms. Churchill had a great idea for this book but I feel that she failed to follow through as well in this book as she usually does. I'm not saying that this book is not worth reading. In fact, read them all. This series is a lot of fun and a lot of laugh out loud funny jokes. I would just say that this installment is a bit weaker than the other Jane Jeffry Mystery books. But still well worth your time, she is still one of my favorite author.
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Summary: I Love Jane and Shelly!
Review: This installment of Jill Churchill's Jane Jeffry series is a bit of a disappointment. I did enjoy reading it, but missed the snap that Jane and Shelly have together. Oddly, a lot of the messes that they get into in other books are missing too. Ms. Churchill had a great idea for this book but I feel that she failed to follow through as well in this book as she usually does. I'm not saying that this book is not worth reading. In fact, read them all. This series is a lot of fun and a lot of laugh out loud funny jokes. I would just say that this installment is a bit weaker than the other Jane Jeffry Mystery books. But still well worth your time, she is still one of my favorite author.
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