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Summary: Looking forward to more Irish Eyes Tour books
Review: Roxanne Prescott is a shell-shocked ex-cop from Austin who fled to California after her partner was killed. With time on her hands, she decides to try her had at being a tour guide. Her aunt, Maureen O'Malley, owns Irish Eyes Travel agency. When O'Malley comes down with chicken pox three days before the 'Guns and Roses' tour of colonial America departs, Roxanne joins O'Malley's staff. The trip through history is not without its own peril. A woman slips and breaks her ankle at a cocktail party. Salt and sugar are swapped from their respectful holders, causing much consternation to the surprised guests. Late night phone calls make people cranky. And that's before they ever make it to their final destination, Williamsburg. Roxanne is at a loss to explain the pranks, but her investigative skills are a blessing when the ultimate prank goes seriously awry. I like Roxanne and the concept of a mystery series based on a travel agency. This is my second Taffy Cannon book, but it won't be my last. Enjoy!
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Summary: Looking forward to more Irish Eyes Tour books
Review: Roxanne Prescott is a shell-shocked ex-cop from Austin who fled to California after her partner was killed. With time on her hands, she decides to try her had at being a tour guide. Her aunt, Maureen O'Malley, owns Irish Eyes Travel agency. When O'Malley comes down with chicken pox three days before the 'Guns and Roses' tour of colonial America departs, Roxanne joins O'Malley's staff. The trip through history is not without its own peril. A woman slips and breaks her ankle at a cocktail party. Salt and sugar are swapped from their respectful holders, causing much consternation to the surprised guests. Late night phone calls make people cranky. And that's before they ever make it to their final destination, Williamsburg. Roxanne is at a loss to explain the pranks, but her investigative skills are a blessing when the ultimate prank goes seriously awry. I like Roxanne and the concept of a mystery series based on a travel agency. This is my second Taffy Cannon book, but it won't be my last. Enjoy!
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Summary: Fun and Suspenseful Tour
Review: Ex-cop Roxanne Prescott is not quite prepared for her first assignment leading a tour for her aunt's company alone. But when her aunt gets sick, she accepts the Battlefields and Gardens of Virginia tour, which she dubs Guns and Roses. Things turn disastrous right from the start with one prank after another. Everyone from the new millionaires to the newly weds falls victim. But when the tour reaches Williamsburg, things turn deadly. Taffy Cannon has written a wonderful book in what I hope will be a new series. The plot was quite tangled, and only near the end did I get any inkling what was going on. The characters were fun, and while some might have been a little stereotypical, they served their purpose well. The story brought Williamsburg to life, and I can't wait to visit. It was also interesting to see some of the behind the scenes working of a town devoted to tourists. The author switches view point characters on a regular basis, which adds another layer to this mystery. I recommend this enjoyable mystery to anyone who likes a good puzzle.
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Summary: Fun and Suspenseful Tour
Review: Ex-cop Roxanne Prescott is not quite prepared for her first assignment leading a tour for her aunt's company alone. But when her aunt gets sick, she accepts the Battlefields and Gardens of Virginia tour, which she dubs Guns and Roses. Things turn disastrous right from the start with one prank after another. Everyone from the new millionaires to the newly weds falls victim. But when the tour reaches Williamsburg, things turn deadly. Taffy Cannon has written a wonderful book in what I hope will be a new series. The plot was quite tangled, and only near the end did I get any inkling what was going on. The characters were fun, and while some might have been a little stereotypical, they served their purpose well. The story brought Williamsburg to life, and I can't wait to visit. It was also interesting to see some of the behind the scenes working of a town devoted to tourists. The author switches view point characters on a regular basis, which adds another layer to this mystery. I recommend this enjoyable mystery to anyone who likes a good puzzle.
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Summary: This book is so much fun!
Review: If she thinks like a police officer, talks like a police officer, and acts like a police officer, logically one would conclude she must be a police officer. Not! Roxanne Prescott is a former San Antonio police officer. She grew disenchanted with her job, especially after a perpetrator gunned down her partner. Now she earns a living as a tour guide for a California travel agency. Her first solo trip is guiding wealthy patrons on the "History and Gardens of Virginia Tour." However, her former occupation's skills are needed on this "Guns and Roses" tour as someone makes life difficult for the participants. It starts with childish pranks that turn criminal with the abduction of a child. Roxanne thinks the unknown assailant has a deadly agenda that she plans to stop. GUNS AND ROSES is the opening installment of a fascinating new mystery series. Taffy Cannon provides the audience with a refreshing and likable lead character who is at the crossroads of her life. Roxanne begins to understand that she can take herself out of the police force, but she cannot take the police force out of herself. The mystery is loaded with viable suspects that will keep the reader switching their decision as to which one is the actual killer. The audience will desire a quick release of the next tale in what looks to be a winning series. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Hungry for Cannon Fodor
Review: In her terribly predictable and tedious GUNS AND ROSES, Taffy Cannon comments on "how little people actually knew about life only 200 years ago" in Colonial Williamsburg. As a former Williamsburg resident, I was amazed about how little Cannon knows about Williamsburg today. Her setting in Williamsburg and other parts of Virginia is so far off that I wonder if Cannon has actually ever been there herself. Instead, it seems like she got ahold of a Fodor's guide and used it as her sole material for setting. The story in GUNS AND ROSES is so predictable that, after I had figured out "whodunnit" almost as soon as the culprit was introduced, I continued reading only to see (or to hope) that I was wrong. The suspense, like the setting, is artificial as Cannon choses to ignore the writers' rule of "show, don't tell." Roxanne, the cop-turned-sleuth/tour guide, spends most of the novel missing her life on the force. I only hope that she is a more interesting policewoman than central character. Cannon's tale is made up of one dimensional, stock characters (the nouveau riche trailor trash, the elegant southern women, the gold diggers, etc etc etc). In fact, there was only one character that I found interesting--Heather, the 11year old American Girls fan. And even Heather seems unrealistic as an 11 year old girl who totes a doll around.
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Summary: Great New Series
Review: Last year, when my first mystery novel was in its initial release, I had the honor of making a joint appearance with Taffy Cannon. GUNS AND ROSES was also in its initial release, and I read this novel in preparation for our appearance. I felt then, and still feel today, that GUNS AND ROSES marks a remarkable debut for Ms. Cannon's new series. Roxanne, her travel guide sleuth who happens to be a former cop, is a winner. Irish Eyes Travel can eventually feature mysteries set anywhere in the world. In this series debut, Roxanne is confronted with crimes (including murder) as she leads a tour group through colonial sites in Virginia. I thoroughly enjoyed her story, and I've recommended the book to a number mystery readers groups to whom I've spoken. I'm quite pleased GUNS AND ROSES has been nominated for a number of awards including Mystery Readers International's Macavity Award for Best Novel.
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Summary: Great New Series
Review: Last year, when my first mystery novel was in its initial release, I had the honor of making a joint appearance with Taffy Cannon. GUNS AND ROSES was also in its initial release, and I read this novel in preparation for our appearance. I felt then, and still feel today, that GUNS AND ROSES marks a remarkable debut for Ms. Cannon's new series. Roxanne, her travel guide sleuth who happens to be a former cop, is a winner. Irish Eyes Travel can eventually feature mysteries set anywhere in the world. In this series debut, Roxanne is confronted with crimes (including murder) as she leads a tour group through colonial sites in Virginia. I thoroughly enjoyed her story, and I've recommended the book to a number mystery readers groups to whom I've spoken. I'm quite pleased GUNS AND ROSES has been nominated for a number of awards including Mystery Readers International's Macavity Award for Best Novel.
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Summary: Well Recommended
Review: Taffy Cannon knows how to weave characters, dialogue and story to create this mystery-lover's feeling of satisfaction. If you enjoyed her last books or if you have yet to discover Taffy, do not buy another mystery until you get this.
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Summary: An enjoyable new character!
Review: Taffy Cannon, auhtor of the Nan Robinson series, has created a delighful new character, former cop and current tour guide Roxanne Prescott. Roxanne is filling in as guide for a Virginia gardens and history tour (known by the participants as "guns and roses") and is prepared for a variety of travel related problems. She isn't prepared for a series of increasingly serious accidents and incidents which plague her diverse group of clients. She finds herself needing all her police skills to catch a cleaver criminal. Taffy Cannon has done a fine job of creating an interesting story, well rounded characters and a fine sense of the places the problem plagued tour visit. And her description of an adult with a case of the chicken pox made me (almost) itch with the memory!
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