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Title: Memories Can Be Murder : The Fifth Charlie Parker Mystery by Connie Shelton ISBN: 1-890768-18-9 Publisher: Intrigue Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Charlie investigates her parents' death
Comment: Two events conspire to put Charlie Parker on an investigation of her parents' death. The first was that her neighbor, who helped raise her after her parents' death, confides that their plane crash was not an accident, but was the result of a bomb which had been planted on the plane. The second event is that Charlie's fiance, Drake, will soon be coming from Hawaii to move in with her. This necessitates rearranging some of her things to make room for Drake and her discovery of some of her father's old papers in the attic. Her father had been an employee of Sandia Corporation and had been privy to some confidential government information. Working on the theory that her father had some incriminating evidence about someone at his job, Charlie begins interviewing his former co-workers and looking for answers to her questions about the plane crash. Bad things begin happening to Charlie and the people she talks to, and the net begins to tighten around Charlie and the murderer. This is another good entry in the Charlie Parker series.
Rating: 3
Summary: Engrosing but predictable
Comment: I found MEMORIES CAN BE MURDER to be an engrosing but predictable story. Charlie Parker (not to be confused with Charlie Plato of CHAPS created by Meg Chittenden), 30-ish and newly engaged, is hesitant to set a wedding date to fiance Drake as they have only known each other a short time. However, Charlie and Drake have agreed to live together, and he is in the process of moving from Hawaii to Charlie's home in Albuquerque. While making room for Drake's things, Charlie discovers several boxes of her father's papers in the attic, which cause her to relive old memories of her parents who died in a plane crash.
Charlie learns she didn't comprehend much at the time of their deaths, and she starts investigating. It soon becomes obvious that someone has something to hide, as much of the information regarding the plane crash has disappeared. What's more, someone who has info to give to Charlie is killed right in front of her eyes.
While engrosing, much of the plot is predictable. As soon as Charlie took her father's boxes of papers next door to spread out in a neighbor's empty room, I just knew that something was going to happen to Charlie's house. I kept cringing at the end of each chapter, expecting her house to blow up with her fiance in it. So when the expected did happen, it was nice to find that no one was killed after all. Also predictable was the bad guy's identity, which eliminated much of the suspense.
In spite of the predictability, I very much enjoyed watching Charlie's relationship with Drake develop. I'm looking forward to the next book in this series.
Rating: 4
Summary: I don't think this is the Charlie Parker that play bebop
Comment: I couldn't find anything about bebop or saxophone playing in this at all. Not much about Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, either.
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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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Title: Cutwork by Monica Ferris ISBN: 0425193896 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: High Rhymes and Misdemeanors : A Poetic Death Mystery by Diana Killian ISBN: 0743466780 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle ISBN: 042519213X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Dealing in Murder by Elaine Flinn ISBN: 0060545798 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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