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Title: Murder of a Barbie and Ken by Denise Swanson ISBN: 0-451-21072-7 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Who killed socialites Barbie & Ken and why?
Comment: Skye Denison is a school psychologist in Scumble River. Her boyfriend Simon, the coroner and funeral home owner, has joined the local social club, Grand Union of the Mighty Bulls, and he has talked her into joining the GUMB ladies' auxiliary. That's how she met Barbie Addison.
Skye attended a Instant Gourmet party at Barbie's and ended up buying a week's worth of Instant Gourmet food. Skye's dad gives her a ride to Barbie's to pick up her food. Her Bel Air doesn't do well in really bad weather. They find Barbie and Ken (her husband) dead.
Police Chief Walter Boyd asked Skye and Simon to help him investigate their murders. Skye has assisted in the past, but usually against everyone's wishes. This is a new twist for Wally to ask for her help. He knows he needs people who are in GUMB to help find out information.
To complicate matters more, Simon's mother Bunny arrived at Skye's house one night in a snowstorm with no where else to stay. Skye thought Simon's mother was dead so she is quite surprised to meet her. At least that's what Simon had told her! Skye's Uncle Charlie who runs a local motel, referred Bunny to Skye's for the night. One night turns into many! Bunny isn't the easiest person to live with either. Simon was not too happy to see his mother.
Skye and Simon find themselves in many interesting situations as they assist Wally in the investigation.
I love the characters and their interactions in this series. Denise has constructed such a great cast of characters. Plus Scumble River is the typical small town (if any are typical). Everyone knows everyone's business and there are plenty of scandals.
I highly recommend this book and the whole series! It's great! It is a wonderful cozy mystery series.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretentious & Boring...
Comment: I love mysteries.... good ones, that is. I found this book begging for attention from a character that acts wrongly superior to any other characters by her side. I felt her looking down her nose at others and insulting the small-town life that is clearly a part of the authors life. In additon, I found the conversations and descriptions of the days happenings to be over-detailed and more than a little annoying. I mean, really --- is it necessary to describe just how much make-up was applied; listen to Skye debate over what to prepare for Thanksgiving dinner; how the whole dinner played out with men in one room and women in the other --- when she's supposed to be solving a murder?! The polt has a ton of potential and could be a good read if there were a stronger, less superficial main character (and author). This is the first 'Scumble River Mystery' I've read. Maybe the others are better.... but I'll never know.
Rating: 2
Summary: Getting Silly
Comment: It's never a good thing when an author bases their main character so much on themselves that it interferes with forming the character individually in the reader's mind. In this case of this series, it's obvious that's just what this author has done, just by reading the little bio blurb in the back cover. At least try for a little deviation from yourself, whether it be physically, mentally or emotionally.
Skye has become increasingly annoying as the series progresses. There's no justifiable reason whatsoever for her sticking her nose into these cases, and even less reason for a police chief to not only allow her to do it, but give her access to confidential information in order to faciliate her "assistance." It gets even more ludicrous when her mother, the town police dispatcher, gives her permission to go into the store room to poke through evidence while the chief is out of the office. Shouldn't that be grounds for termination?
If Skye's romance with Simon is supposed to be sexy, the author is doing a poor job of portraying that. These are two grown adults, neither is attached, the whole town knows they're dating, and yet they feel they have to sneak around? That no one has figured out they're sleeping together? What is this, junior high school? There's nothing at all appealing about this couple.
Add in the silliness of Bunny, Frannie and Justin at the end, and this was almost a painful book to finish. If the author wants to continue this series, then she needs to have her characters grow up and stop acting like a bunch of teenagers trying to form their own "in-crowd."
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Title: Murder of a Snake in the Grass by Denise Swanson ISBN: 045120834X Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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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: 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: 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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