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Summary: A Differing Opinion
Review: I love mysteries and since June 1989 (the month I seriously started keeping track)I have read over 700 of them. I wanted to like this book, it had a great title and the promise of three lovable middle-aged Nancy Drews solving a nice cozy mystery and giving gardening tips. However, the reality was completely disappointing. First, who exactly was husband Greg? We never get to know why women, married and single, fall all over themselves trying to hang onto him. The author should have painted a personality for him before bumping him off. Instead we are left to wonder why all this passion for someone who the reader never had information about.Secondly, it would be really hard to cut someone's throat and private parts and move the body without getting blood on the crime scene and yet the reader is supposed to swallow this scenario. Also, there is too much dialogue versus description and I had to keep going back to follow her transitions from one scene to another. I thought the book was a mess and, even after careful reading, I am unsure of Greg's relationship with one of the characters. If you are still reading this, try the late Anne George and her "Sister" series. Her books are delightful!
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Summary: Great mystery!
Review: Three Dirty Women was the name of a professional landscaping company operated by Amilou, Korine, and Janey. As the story opened I found the three beautifying the yard of hateful Susannah Graham when Amilou uncovered the body of her estranged husband, Greg, buried in the flower bed! The Chief of Police, J.J., happened to be Janey's husband. He was called immediately. Amilou was the number one suspect since she was the wife. She had motive and opportunity. However, Greg had never been a faithful husband. Seemed almost all females in town had been intimate with Greg. And all of them had motive and opportunity as well! ***** The author started page one off with a blast! Abra-cadabra! Instant mystery, instant fun! The story kept me perplexed. It had several suspects and I simply could not figure out who did the deed! Excellent who-dunnit mystery that will keep you guessing! *****
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Summary: Clever and fun!
Review: You'll never feel quite the same about digging in a flower bed after you've read Ms. Herman's wonderful new book, which kept me clamped to my armchair until I finished the thing. The characters in the story feel like people you know, and the whodunit part of this mystery was as mesmerizing as a tennis match. First you'd KNOW if was this suspect. Then you'd be sure it was THAT one. Then you wouldn't be sure of anything. Guess that's what a mystery is all about, and Ms. Herman pulled it off nicely. I hope she'll take her hands out of her own flower bed long enough to hurry up and give us a sequel.
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