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Summary: Susan Conant scores another winner!
Review: Another in the series of books about amateur sleuth Holly Winter and her dogs Kimi and Rowdy, Susan Conant has once again delivered an intriguing story which provides fascinating details about the world of dog fancy while also providing an exciting mystery with roots in not too distant history.
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Summary: A good read for amateur detetcive and dog lovers
Review: During the decades between the World Wars, the earth was a place of extremes. Millions lived in poverty while a few individuals possessed great wealth. The Morris and Essex dog shows exemplified a level of indulgence not seen since their demise. The prime patron and hostess to the shows was multi-millionaire Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge. She would fly in European dogs, trainers, and owners, setting up small cities on her vast estates to house the canines and their guests.Modern day dog lover Holly Winters, owner of two champion Alaskan Malamutes (Rowdy and Kiwi), is enamoured with the historical persona of Geraldine. She is thrilled to be commissioned to write a book on the Morris and Essex dog shows. Holly interviews B. Robert Motherwood, a classmate of Geraldine's deceased son, who attended the shows. Holly learns more than she ever needed to know. She soon finds herself investigating murder inside of the Motherwood home. Anyone who has read the Barker Street Regulars will be elated over the fact that some of the characters appears in EVIL BREEDING. Canine lovers will also adore this novel because of the obsessive behavior of the heroine when it comes to pampering her dogs. The gothic-like story line centers on the ugly secrets of a prominent family who will kill to keep skeletons inside the closet. Thus Susan Conant ahs written a cross appeal tale that fans of gothic, amateur detectives, and pet lovers will cherish. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Well written and engrossing mystery with interesting charact
Review: Evil Breeding is the latest of the Holly Winter mysteries. As usual the mystery part is engrossing, but I miss the usual characters and dog show settings. In this mystery, the dogs were just peripheral characters if you could call them that at all. This is a fine mystery novel, but not really a dog lover's mystery as it is billed.
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Summary: Not the best
Review: I bought it, I always buy these, but now I wonder. I love Holly Winter, Rowdy, Kimi, Tracker, Steve, etc., but where were they in this book? There was way too much time spent on other areas. Eugenics yes, but not the whole book. I would have enjoyed more with the dogs and less worrying about sick cruel humans.
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Summary: Interesting but not wonderful
Review: I greatly enjoy this series and understand that the 12th book in a series must break new ground but perhaps this ground was not a fertile as it should have been. It was a fun read and I laughed outloud at times but would like a trip back to the main stream. Maybe it is time for Holly to get another dog. Since I have a new chessie puppy, I promise that lots of stories will come from it.
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Summary: Dismayed enough to write
Review: I loved Ms. Conant's early books in the series but lately and in particular, this book, is unbelievably bad. I could not follow the story line, the dog training or any dog topics were almost non-existent, and what type of character Holly is becoming is getting stranger and stranger. The publishers really need to give this author a good editor. This book is very bad and it is a shame that her previous success and her well-known name allows the customer to think they're getting a good read. Disgraceful.
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Summary: A Dog Lover's Mystery? Not really.
Review: Love the series, but this entry is below par. I miss the usual characters, especially the dogs, which were in this book seemingly only as a token appearance to keep the "Dog Lover's Mystery" tag line. Disappointing.
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Summary: Evil Breeding
Review: Never have I disliked a main character as much as the woman in this book. The character was so self-centered, rude, arrogant and obsesssive about controlling her dogs that it interfered with the marginal plot.
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Summary: A very enjoyable read
Review: Once again Susan Conant has written a book that kept me reading until I finished it. As other reader reviewers have said, I also would have liked to have seen more of Rowdy and Kimi in it, but I also have seen the book reviewers say that they feel there is too much dog stuff in her books. I hope the author will ignore these reviewers. I personally feel that those touches - the dogs, the shows, etc are what makes her books so good, and hope to see more of it in the future. I love all the information I get from her books, always different, always fresh.
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Summary: Please, Holly, no more horror stories about dogs!
Review: One of the reasons I often avoid stoies about animals is bacause they die, or are tortured. If I want that kind of horror, there is plenty of it in the real world. I was given several of Susan Conant's earlier books, and found they had far too much of this type of information, meaning I stopped reading at a certain point, and passed the books on to others less squeamish. I always approached them like a hand grenade with the pin pulled, never knowing when it might explode. Her talent is terrific, her dogs wonderful, but I can't, and don't want to, become hardened enough to enjoy these books. If she were to concentrate more on Steve (or he's going to be history), and the good parts of her life, and less on historical atrocities, I would become a loyal reader.
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