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Summary: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Review: I have enjoyed the first two books in what I hope is a long series with Annie and Claudius. I can't wait for the next one. Ms Campbell if your reading this,I want you to know that I'm sorry that I missed you when you were at Borders in Shrewsbury. I would have asked you then when is the next book coming out? The story was light enough to escape our everyday world and let you have an adventure that you wouldn't really want to take yourself. I couldn't stop turning the pages. If you own dogs you will understand Claudius and what goes on with Annie.
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Summary: An entertaining addition to the series
Review: In the newest addition to the series, Annie O'Hara is back at home in New England. She is just about broke, still stuck with her sister-in-law's dog, and the only thing keeping her solvent is her two boarders. One of them is killed in the charity corn maze behind the tavern, and her brother is the main suspect. Annie and Claudius do not have much faith in the detective in charge, and it's up to them to solve the crime.I enjoyed the mystery and the story. The author has gotten more of a grip on the dog angle of the story. It won't outrage the dog lovers among us. I assumed that the mistakes made in the last book were due to the main character's inexperience with dogs, but am happy to see the errors mostly remedied. Claudius isn't left in hot cars or left to run loose in this story.
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Summary: An entertaining addition to the series
Review: In the newest addition to the series, Annie O'Hara is back at home in New England. She is just about broke, still stuck with her sister-in-law's dog, and the only thing keeping her solvent is her two boarders. One of them is killed in the charity corn maze behind the tavern, and her brother is the main suspect. Annie and Claudius do not have much faith in the detective in charge, and it's up to them to solve the crime. I enjoyed the mystery and the story. The author has gotten more of a grip on the dog angle of the story. It won't outrage the dog lovers among us. I assumed that the mistakes made in the last book were due to the main character's inexperience with dogs, but am happy to see the errors mostly remedied. Claudius isn't left in hot cars or left to run loose in this story.
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Summary: Not even that . . .
Review: Somehow I missed the first book in this series, WOLF AT THE DOOR, probably because I really don't do books with wolves (of whatever variety) within the pages. I do not intend to go find it now, either. Nor would I recommend this one to anyone, unless they like to read rather silly stories with more holes in than a sieve. Well before Chapter 3 (page 27) I was grinding my teeth. Why doesn't she take this dog and herself to obedience school? I wondered. I continued to wonder this for the entire duration of the book. I do like dogs, but a little discipline exerted by both Annie and Claudius would go a long way toward solving most of the problems encountered by either of them, not to mention the rest of the townsfolk. I found the continued viewpoint of the dog a bit too cute and more than a bit too confusing, mixed in with Annie's as it usually was. It also isn't fair to the reader to hold out clues to the perpetrator of the crimes, as was done here, either. In my opinion, the characters were very stereo-typed, almost farcical, but then, any town lumbered with a police officer like Gus Jackson deserves whatever it gets. I will say, however, that Annie must be an absolutely superwoman who has figured out how to get more minutes into an hour than the rest of us, in order to accomplish all the things she does in such very short spaces of time. Very confusing. I sincerely doubt I'll read any more of this series.
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