Death Warmed Over...Coming Soon

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Summary: A great Debut novel!!
Review: A fun fun fun book. I enjoyed it from start to finish. And what a surprise ending!!! I look forward to following the adventures of Hannah Fogarty Evans & Company, the town, the family, the men, the mystery. Just the right stuff for a long long series. Move over Evanovich.

Rating:
Summary: A great Debut novel!!
Review: A fun fun fun book. I enjoyed it from start to finish. And what a surprise ending!!! I look forward to following the adventures of Hannah Fogarty Evans & Company, the town, the family, the men, the mystery. Just the right stuff for a long long series. Move over Evanovich.

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Summary: A Really Cozy Cozy!
Review: DEATH WARMED OVER - COMING SOON is good news for readers. If you've been pawing desperately through thinly veiled horrors, hardboilded PIs and lawyers' jargon to find a cozy you will find it in DEATH WARMED OVER - COMING SOON. Cindy Daniel has written us one that's just what a cozy should be. It begins with a brief prologue which, with gentle humor and intereesting questions about Hannnah, her heroines life and future, leads us into Destiny, Texas, her home town. Her characters are well done from Hannah's family to the town characters, all this with a handsome hunk thrown in. The handsome hunk is the Sheriff and when a death occurs in the small town and is ruled a homoicide, Hannah's sister is a suspect and he goes into action. Things he uncovers and clues Hannh stumbles into put her and her six year old daughter, Emma, in danger and keep us turning pages. I enjoyed my trip to Destiny and am looking forward to Cindy Danel inviting all of us back soon.

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Summary: Death Warmed Over - Coming Soon - Review
Review: Death Warmed Over - Coming Soon
Cindy Daniel
2003 - First in Series
Quiet Storm Publishing

Take a small Texas town, add a pair of competitive but fiercely protective sisters, carefully mix in a murder, lavishly sprinkle in a some down home humor, and you have the "fixins" of a great cozy!

Destiny Texas is a typical small Texas town populated by typical small town Texans. Except one of them is a murderer. It takes Hannah, in between scrubbing toilets, keeping up with the town gossip, and taking pot shots at her sister, to catch the murderer and save the well-deserved floozy reputation of her sister Ruth who has been accused of the murder.

Tired of scrubbing toilets and catering to drunken fishermen at her parents lodge, Hanna decides to open a mystery bookstore. Ruth helps her get the store set up and using "tips" from the various sleuths in the books, Hannah tracks down the killer.

The interaction and personality clashes of the two sisters keep the reader in stitches as the plot draws them in to the story. The budding romance between Hannah and the Sheriff, and Hannah's six year old daughter who wraps everyone she meets around her finger just adds to the fun. This is a must read for mystery lovers that like a bit of humor mixed into a great plot. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: A light, fun read!
Review: Hannah and her six-year-old daughter, Emma, move back to Hannah's parents house following her divorce. She is going to help her parents out by cleaning cabins at their lodge. It doesn't take long for her to decide that she wants to open a bookstore instead.

Hannah meets Will Garrett through her sister, Ruth, and Ruth's boyfriend Ray. Sparks fly between Hannah and Will, but Hannah has trouble handling the romance after her divorce.

A suspicious death in occurs town. Ruth seems to have a motive for the crime. Since Will is the sheriff and Ray is the chief of police, they are sure to get to the bottom of the story. Hannah has to help get her sister out of this jam.

Hannah and Ruth make you laugh with the sibling rivalry that is common even as an adult. When the chips are down the loyalty kicks in, Hannah is right there to help her sister in any way that she can.

The characters are real without any added fluff. They are from a small town that I can easily relate to.

Death Warmed Over is a quick light read that will make you giggle at times with the sisterly jabs. However you can't wait to get to the end to see who really committed the murder. Cindy Daniel is an up and coming author with more to come with this series. I can't wait to see the new ones coming up.

-Kim Atchue-Cusella

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Summary: Fun New Cozy Series
Review: Hannah Fogarty, full-figured single mom to seven-year-old Emma, decides to move back home to Destiny, Texas after her divorce. She lives in her parents' garage apartment, and works for them cleaning cabins at their vacation lodge. Her older sister, Ruth, decides to play matchmaker for Hannah, setting her up with Will Garrett, the newly elected County Sheriff. Will is best friends with Ruth's boyfriend, Destiny's Chief of Police, Ray Palmer.

Hannah and Emma both fall head-over-heels for Will's kind and gentle, yet strong and protective personality. The feeling is mutual for Will, who starts spending a great deal of time with Hannah. Destiny is a typical small town, everyone is involved in everyone else's business, and the townspeople can't help but be concerned for Janie Zimmerman, who is Hannah and Ruth's childhood friend. Janie has been looking more sickly and weak as the days pass. When Janie dies and her death is determined to be murder, rumors start to fly that Ruth wanted Janie out of the way because she was in love with Janie's boyfriend. Hannah steps up to get to the bottom of the mystery and save her sister's honor.

In the midst of the investigation and Hannah and Will's newfound relationship, Hannah begins to pursue her dreams of opening a mystery bookstore, named Death Warmed Over. Ruth's help in this venture is crucial.

DEATH WARMED OVER (COMING SOON) is the first book in the Death Warmed Over mystery series. Cindy Daniel is off to an excellent start. The characters never take themselves too seriously, and this endears them to the reader. Hannah is trying to do the best for her daughter, but she doesn't sacrifice her own chance at happiness. And it's great to read about characters who enjoy chocolate as much as I do! Ruth's character makes a good contrast to Hannah's--she's wild where Hannah is conservative, spontaneous where Hannah is orderly. This gives the story balance.

The pacing of DEATH WARMED OVER (COMING SOON) is brisk and doesn't drag. In fact, my only complaint is that Will and Hannah's relationship seems to develop much too quickly. One day they meet, and three dates later they are pledging undying love for each other. The love story is very sweet and pleasurable to read about otherwise.

At first I felt that DEATH WARMED OVER (COMING SOON ) borrowed too many concepts from other mystery series--the Texas locale from Susan Wittig Albert's books, the mystery bookstore from Carolyn Hart's books. But Ms. Daniel mentions other mystery authors and characters fondly and in the end it feels like she's paying homage to them instead.

Except for the hefty price tag, I recommend DEATH WARMED OVER (COMING SOON) as a wonderful start to a new cozy series. I look forward to reading more by Cindy Daniel in the future.

Courtesy of www.allaboutmurder.com

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Summary: i'm not a reader and i really loved this book.....
Review: i can't tell you the last time i read a book. being from the area mentioned though, i had to have it.

i think i read it in just a few days. it was about a family that was loving, supportive, honest and texan. kind of like mine. you love your family, but don't always have to like them.

5 stars......

Rating:
Summary: i'm not a reader and i really loved this book.....
Review: i can't tell you the last time i read a book. being from the area mentioned though, i had to have it.

i think i read it in just a few days. it was about a family that was loving, supportive, honest and texan. kind of like mine. you love your family, but don't always have to like them.

5 stars......

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Summary: A Delightful Romp
Review: The small town of Destiny, TX is quiet until Hannah and her six-year old daughter, Emma, move in near Hannah's parents. Ruth, Hannah's older sister, is reputedly the town slut, however, we learn she may not be as bad as her reputation--or maybe it's worse, the reader doesn't know for sure. It takes only a few days of cleaning commodes in her parents' cabins to convince Hannah to strike out on her own. The obvious answer: open a bookstore.
Ruth insists that Hannah meet a man of her choosing, Will Garrett, newly elected Sheriff of Van Zandt County, and best friend of Ruth's current sleep-in, the Destiny Chief of Police, Ray Palmer. Can Hannah find romance after her disastrous marriage? Watch out for the fireworks as Will and Hannah discover one another.
Even as the sisters debate a name for the bookstore--DEATH WARMED OVER--real death mysteriously strikes. Ruth is implicated, leaving Hannah to unravel the mystery and bring the killer to justice.
DEATH WARMED OVER is a delightful romp through a small Texas town. Ms. Daniel's writing style is light and airy, as homey as sitting in front of a fire on a cold winter evening listening to a dear friend tell a story. As for Destiny, anyone who has lived in a small town will chuckle at the town characters and nod approvingly at how Ms. Daniel captures their personalities.

Rating:
Summary: A Delightful Romp
Review: The small town of Destiny, TX is quiet until Hannah and her six-year old daughter, Emma, move in near Hannah�s parents. Ruth, Hannah�s older sister, is reputedly the town slut, however, we learn she may not be as bad as her reputation--or maybe it�s worse, the reader doesn�t know for sure. It takes only a few days of cleaning commodes in her parents� cabins to convince Hannah to strike out on her own. The obvious answer: open a bookstore.
Ruth insists that Hannah meet a man of her choosing, Will Garrett, newly elected Sheriff of Van Zandt County, and best friend of Ruth�s current sleep-in, the Destiny Chief of Police, Ray Palmer. Can Hannah find romance after her disastrous marriage? Watch out for the fireworks as Will and Hannah discover one another.
Even as the sisters debate a name for the bookstore--DEATH WARMED OVER--real death mysteriously strikes. Ruth is implicated, leaving Hannah to unravel the mystery and bring the killer to justice.
DEATH WARMED OVER is a delightful romp through a small Texas town. Ms. Daniel�s writing style is light and airy, as homey as sitting in front of a fire on a cold winter evening listening to a dear friend tell a story. As for Destiny, anyone who has lived in a small town will chuckle at the town characters and nod approvingly at how Ms. Daniel captures their personalities.