The Trouble With a Bad Fit: A Novel of Food, Fashion, and Mystery

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Summary: delicious reading
Review: I could not put the book down. It held my interest & I worked to guess who the killer was. I am a native New Yorker, and familiar with many of the neighborhoods involved and much of how the Garment Center works. The authors appendices at the end were helpful for someone not familiar with the Garment Center and what goes on. The character is fun, the food interesting. The only reason I gave it a nine, was two minor mistakes about New York. Take it to the beach this summer & mangia!

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Summary: A book that hooked me & kept me interested.
Review: I could not put the book down. It held my interest & I worked to guess who the killer was. I am a native New Yorker, and familiar with many of the neighborhoods involved and much of how the Garment Center works. The authors appendices at the end were helpful for someone not familiar with the Garment Center and what goes on. The character is fun, the food interesting. The only reason I gave it a nine, was two minor mistakes about New York. Take it to the beach this summer & mangia!

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Summary: A fun murder mystery
Review: I have been reading mysteries for about two years now, and I have been shocked at how serious most of them are. I realize that murder is a heavy subject, but if I want grim details accompaning medical/criminal facts, I would read the newspaper. Camila T. Crespi offers a refreshing heroine who doesn't take herself too seriously. In fact, Simona Griffo isn't even a professional detective. Rather, she is a working woman who lets her curiosity get her into situations where she doesn't belong. Crespi's characters in Bad Fit are not incredibly complex, but they are interesting. It is fun to be able to unwind the mystery with the heroine which rarely happens in mysteries because the reader isn't often on the same level as the heroine. I reccommend Bad Fit (or any of Crespi's other mysteries) to anyone who wants a quick-paced, interesting, and fun mystery.

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Summary: delicious reading
Review: I passed this book around to all my friends and family. Everyone loved it .We all cooked along with the author Camilla. Nana

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Summary: A fun murder mystery
Review: The mystery genre has expanded since it's "Golden Age", to encompass and indeed embrace many new forms. Now we have funny murders, cat detectives, and women who love their guns best, to amuse us alongside the classic puzzle or even no puzzle at all. Yet hidden deep inside the heart of every well written mystery one thing must remain, suspense. Every good mystery must supply the reader with a question that must be answered. That why or how or who creates the suspense and adrenaline surge that readers seek from a good mystery. Camilla Crespi does not seem to yet understand this basic need. Her latest book " The Trouble with a Bad Fit" is tailored to please everyone and succeeds in pleasing no one. The only thing she got right was the title. Pale humor, soft characterization, a recipe here and there (because it is so trendy) cannot disguise or distract from the book's basic lack of suspense filled heart. And because the plot seems as unimportant to me as it obviously did to the writer, I will not try to will it back to conciousness here, but will merely leave one final clue: fluff in disguise.