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Title: Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds by Nancy Martin ISBN: 0-451-20886-2 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No Sophmore Slump Here!!!
Comment: Nancy Martin's second book in the Blackbird series is another winner. We pick up the story the next fall. Libby is close to her due date, Emma has decided to buy a horse and train herself, and Nora gets involved in another murder.
At a celebration party for Oliver Cooper (He was nominated for the next Department of Transportation Secretary), Nora runs into her college boyfriend, Flan Cooper. After an innocent private talk, Flan's wife, Laura, finds them and thinks the worst. Nora talks to Laura and finds out she and Flan are having trouble. During their conversation, Nora notices that Laura has changed her appearance to resemble her. Nora's talk to Laura ends with the understanding that Nora is not interested in Flan any longer.
The next day, Emma tells Nora that Laura was found dead...an apparent suicide. Flan asks Nora for help; since he can't image his wife would kill herself and realized that he is the prime suspect. Nora starts to snoop around and gets a picture of Laura that she can't believe. Laura is known with the estate crowd as a jewelry thief.
There is a new cast of supporting characters, which give this book a different flavor than the last. They are still eccentric so you'll be entertained. Michael is around and ends up helping Nora with her mad capers.
This was a great second story with a stronger mystery than the first novel. I can't wait for the next story.
Rating: 4
Summary: Witty and Charming Series
Comment: The second book in the Blackbird Sisters' mystery series finds Nora Blackbird escalating her romance with Mick; investigating jewelry thefts; delivering babies (and contemplating one of her own?); solving murders; and trying to clear an old flame - Flan Cooper's name.
Nancy Martin does it again with lots of wit and great dialogue. The characters are funny and somewhat dysfunctional.
My one criticism (and it's a big one) which only made me give it 4 stars was when Nora shouts out that one threatening word as she is fighting for her life....."polyester!" Pleaassse. There is a point where too much wit makes it absurd. And Nancy Martin's editors should have stopped her with that one.
In spite of this absurdity, I will definitely read the next Blackbird Sisters book.
On a positive note, one area that Ms. Martin explains very well in this second book is why Nora has never learned to drive.
Rating: 5
Summary: Philadelphia Society Cozy Mystery Series
Comment: In Nancy Martin's second installment to her Blackbird Sisters cozy mystery series, newly-minted society columnist & middle red-headed Blackbird sister Nora attends the party anticipating the appointment of her old college beau's father as the next Secretary of the Department of Transportation. The plot thickens when a body is found in their koi pool the next day.
In my opinion, "Dead Girls" read more quickly than the first Blackbird Sister mystery "How to Murder a Millionaire."
I looove the knowledge and references to Philadelphia high society rules and parties in this series. The sister's characterizations are nuanced; Mafia don's prodigal son Michael Abruzzo sizzles as Nora's on-again, off-again romantic interest. This is a fun, light-hearted romp through Philadelphia social soirees. Nancy Martin's series is as much fun as Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. Highly recommended.
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Title: May the Best Man Die by DEBORAH DONNELLY ISBN: 0440241294 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Veiled Threats by Deborah Donnelly ISBN: 0440237033 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Died to Match by Deborah Donnelly ISBN: 0440237041 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Some Like It Lethal (Blackbird Sisters Mystery) by Nancy Martin ISBN: 045121174X Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Top O' the Mournin' : A Passport to Peril Mystery by Maddy Hunter ISBN: 0743458125 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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