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Kate Carlisle

Författare till Homicide in Hardcover

45+ verk 6,713 medlemmar 387 recensioner 6 favoritmärkta

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Kate Carlisle is a Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier Award winning author. She is the author of the Bibliophile Mystery Ser. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Verk av Kate Carlisle

Homicide in Hardcover (2009) 1,046 exemplar
If Books Could Kill (2010) 586 exemplar
The Lies That Bind (2010) 443 exemplar
Murder Under Cover (2011) 407 exemplar
One Book in the Grave (2012) 405 exemplar
Peril in Paperback (2012) 358 exemplar
A Cookbook Conspiracy (2013) 338 exemplar
The Book Stops Here (2014) 270 exemplar
A High-End Finish (2014) 269 exemplar
Ripped From the Pages (2015) 253 exemplar
Books of a Feather (2016) 226 exemplar
Once Upon a Spine (2017) 195 exemplar
This Old Homicide (2015) 183 exemplar
Buried in Books (2018) 180 exemplar
Crowned and Moldering (2015) 162 exemplar

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An Innocent in Paradise [Manga] (2011) — Original Text — 1 exemplar

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The Twelve Books of Christmas is definitely not like the books at the beginning of the series, books I absolutely loved. Those were full of mystery, mayhem, complicated plots, and interesting twists and turns. This one is about beautiful and rich people who fly around the world at a moment's notice on a private plane, stay at fancy castles, do things on a whim, and maybe solve a mystery or two while they do all their other stuff in between. And everyone calls Derek ''commander", never investigating him or Brooklyn, simply because of who he was, even though he was right there when everything happened. Not the same at all as the earlier books.

First of all, Brooklyn's independent character was something I enjoyed, even if she was somewhat whiny throughout the books. I mean her life got upended numerous times because she happened to come across dead bodies and it was natural that she would become a suspect, so I enjoyed those interactions she had with police officers and other people as she tried to solve the mysteries. Now, she just has Derek make a phone call and everything is good as he "pulls his magic strings" and suddenly, everything is taken care of. This despite the fact that he was one of the most suspicious people at the beginning. I get they are married now and I get that he would support her, but I would like to see them be a bit more suspicious of those around them.

The plot itself was so thin you can't even see the wire in the trees. For the first two thirds of the book, there were a lot of discussions about the missing books and how they were related to each other, but honestly, not big mystery came out of them simply because there was little to no investigation. And I don't necessarily need a murder in these books, just a good mystery, but neither was actually interesting. Both just seemed thrown into a plot that was weak, at best. Motives didn't make sense, the behaviour of certain characters made no sense, plot points were 'developed' and then discarded for no reason that I could see, so overall it was just a big mess. And pages of descriptions of the food. Ugh!

Verdict
The Twelve Books of Christmas was my least favourite entry in this series, and I was so disappointed over the plot and character development as well as the ending. It was a mish-mash of stuff thrown together in order to give the author an excuse to send Brooklyn and Derek to Scotland over the holidays, one of the only things I liked about the book. Unfortunately, this series has been going downhill for a few books now. I will probably give it one last shot, but after that, if it doesn't go back to the magic of the earlier books, I may have to call it quits.
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½
 
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StephanieBN | 5 andra recensioner | Mar 2, 2024 |
Set aside two days for this contemporary library fundraiser cozy mystery set in San Francisco, California where the first annual Mark Twain Festival was held, featuring a look-alike contest. I was given a paperback and thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
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Quakerwidow | 5 andra recensioner | Feb 25, 2024 |
I have read this whole series but I guess I am growing tired of it because this one thoroughly bored me. There was so much fluff about what they were wearing (silk underwear on repeat) and what they ate (seemed to always be platters). It seemed like far too much filler and not a whole lot of story. Sigh
 
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clamato | 5 andra recensioner | Jan 17, 2024 |
Shannon Hammer and her renovation crew are working on rehabbing the Lighthouse Cove Church to turn it into a museum but there are a few problems when a body is found in a secret room.

Love this series and the characters. So well written.
½
 
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cyderry | 7 andra recensioner | Jan 4, 2024 |

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Verk
45
Även av
1
Medlemmar
6,713
Popularitet
#3,649
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
387
ISBN
259
Språk
4
Favoritmärkt
6

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