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This Little Piggy Went to Murder

This Little Piggy Went to Murder

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Who will die before the Grendel family secrets are known?
Review: Jack Grendel is running for U. S. Senate in Minnesota. His father, Herman Grendel, is a Duluth shipping magnate. First Lars Olson a consultant for Grendel Shipping is murdered. Then Herman is murdered right after he pulled his financial support from Jack's campaign.

Sophie is a food critic and old family friend of Amanda, Jack's sister. Sophie and her husband Bram, a radio personality, attend the reopening of Amanda's restaurant Gasthaus Rethenau. Sophie is also good friends with Luther, Amanda's husband. Luther is quite ill and becomes the police's favorite suspect. Is he being framed?

When these two murders rock the Grendel family and possibly Jack's political campaign, Sophie begins to investigate. At each murder a line from a children's poem is left. Sophie tries to figure out who the next victim is before there are more murders. Unfortunately she is not successful. Then Sophie begins to receive notes with clues about the murders.

Bram and Sophie stay at Amanda and Luther's for a few days. Bram is working on his new novel and needs solitude. Sophie continues to investigate. Sophie finds out some information she isn't sure she wanted to know. Both Bram and Sophie end up in danger. Who is behind all this? Can one of her oldest friends be a killer?

This is a great series. This is one of the earlier books I hadn't read. I enjoy Sophie and her many antics. She always ends up in the thick of things. Being that she is a food critic, food is always an integral part of the story! Then there's Nathan, her ex-boyfriend, who has recently returned. What's his story?

The Minneapolis setting lends charm to the story. This book has many twists and turns and comes to a climactic ending. I highly recommend this book and series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Who will die before the Grendel family secrets are known?
Review: Jack Grendel is running for U. S. Senate in Minnesota. His father, Herman Grendel, is a Duluth shipping magnate. First Lars Olson a consultant for Grendel Shipping is murdered. Then Herman is murdered right after he pulled his financial support from Jack's campaign.

Sophie is a food critic and old family friend of Amanda, Jack's sister. Sophie and her husband Bram, a radio personality, attend the reopening of Amanda's restaurant Gasthaus Rethenau. Sophie is also good friends with Luther, Amanda's husband. Luther is quite ill and becomes the police's favorite suspect. Is he being framed?

When these two murders rock the Grendel family and possibly Jack's political campaign, Sophie begins to investigate. At each murder a line from a children's poem is left. Sophie tries to figure out who the next victim is before there are more murders. Unfortunately she is not successful. Then Sophie begins to receive notes with clues about the murders.

Bram and Sophie stay at Amanda and Luther's for a few days. Bram is working on his new novel and needs solitude. Sophie continues to investigate. Sophie finds out some information she isn't sure she wanted to know. Both Bram and Sophie end up in danger. Who is behind all this? Can one of her oldest friends be a killer?

This is a great series. This is one of the earlier books I hadn't read. I enjoy Sophie and her many antics. She always ends up in the thick of things. Being that she is a food critic, food is always an integral part of the story! Then there's Nathan, her ex-boyfriend, who has recently returned. What's his story?

The Minneapolis setting lends charm to the story. This book has many twists and turns and comes to a climactic ending. I highly recommend this book and series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Start for the Sophie Greenway Series
Review: THIS LITTLE PIGGY is an excellent debut novel. The sleuth, Sophie Greenway, is engaging, reflective, and entirely believable as a nosy but nice magazine food critic who gets plunged into the puzzling circumstances of the murder of her oldest friend's father.

In particular, the language and subtle humor are striking. Hart sets a nice balance between the grim realities of the murders and the relationships of the main and secondary characters. The narrative draws the reader in and keeps you hooked, whether we are finding out unexpected things about Greenway's friends and family or about the deadly plot that results in the murders.

After reading this first novel in the Sophie Greenway series, I was surprised to see it out of print. If this debut is any indication of the quality of the subsequent Greenway books, this series is well worth Ballantine reissuing it.

Other books recommended: M.D. Lake's Peggy O'Neill series, William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor series, and R.D. Zimmerman's Todd Mills mysteries.


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