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Title: Photo Finished by Laura Childs ISBN: 0-425-19434-5 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An exciting amateur sleuth mystery
Comment: After a year of marriage, her husband quits his job at the bank and moves to his family place in the Bayou. Although Shamus comes from old world money he wants to be free and get his photographs into a high class gallery. The bond that ties Carmela to her husband is still strong so that neither has filed for a divorce. Still Carmela has moved on with her life in a professional capacity, opening a store in the French Quarter. Memory Mine sells scrapbooks and gives lessons to customers who want to turn them into art.
Next door to Memory Mine is Menagerie Antiques owned by Bartholomew, a man who Carmela believes works on the wrong side of the law. One night while giving a craft lesson, Carmela's assistant finds Bart dead in the alley, a scissors in his chest. Everyone from her assistant to her best friend expects Carmela to uncover the identity of the killer and she does her best to accommodate their expectations.
PHOTO FINISHED is an exciting amateur sleuth mystery starring a heroine that is impossible to not like. She moves at supersonic speed which means a fast plot, plenty of action and a lot at hair-raising adventure though why involvement in a homicide investigation seems stretched. Laura Childs takes the reader on a tour of New Orleans that seems so realistic that the audience will believe they are there. One should not read this novel on an empty stomach because the mouth watering descriptions of foods will make the reader visit the nearest five star restaurant.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: More like 3.5, really
Comment: Laura Childs' books drive me just a little bit crazy. Sure, they're great for a couple of hours of enjoyment, but...why do I keep coming back, reading each book the woman writes? There is certainly no mental stimulation to be had and after you've finished one you don't get that rush of pleasure and satisfaction that follows a fabulous book. But it just seems to come down to the fact that, even though the books are silly, you are still entertained on some level.
My complaint about all of Childs' novels, and *Photo Finished* is no exception, is that her characters are very light and lacking dimension. Their motivations and thought processes often seem suspect. And silly. Have I mentioned the silliness factor? And, another complaint, the mystery is really no mystery at all. Just a crime that gets resolved (and in this case not very efficiently) at the end. The reader is still left in the dark to an extent regarding what actually happened to prompt the crime. Now that I think about it, some aspects of the book are downright aggravating. Like Carmela's husband, Shamus, and everything that goes along with their relationship. (But to go into that would be just too much.)
I must say, though, that it is worth it to read this particular title in the Scrapbooking mystery series simply for one of the last scenes, which had me laughing out loud quite unexpectedly. A scene that will no doubt prompt me to read the next book.
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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: Keepsake Crimes by Laura Childs ISBN: 0425190749 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The English Breakfast Murder (Childs, Laura. Tea Shop Mysteries.) by Laura Childs ISBN: 042519129X Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up by Joanna Carl ISBN: 0451209850 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Perils of Paella by Nancy Fairbanks ISBN: 042519390X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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