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A Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery #5
Murder Buys a Lemon
When an accident in the repair bay at Fowler's Auto Sales leaves a corpse under a vintage automobile, police and workplace safety investigators begin a painstaking investigation. But something doesn't seem right, and Bluebeard the foul-mouthed parrot is determined to see the truth brought to light.
- GenresCozy Mystery
231 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2022
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Christy Fifield
17 books84 followersChristy Fifield is a pseudonym used by Christina F. York.
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April 8, 2023
Really about a 3.2 or 3.3. It's entertaining enough; if you liked the first four in the series, you'll like this one. It picks up pretty much after the last one. Some relationship advances are made. A long-time character bites the well deserved dust in this one, but you needn't have read the others, particularly. To nitpick, I think it's long past time the "Southern suppers" were dropped; the conceit in the beginning was that the friends' get together dinners had to be traditional Southern recipes never worked especially well; possibly a marketing idea in the crowded field of recipe books, but the characters are forever having problems doing the recipes and either making excuses or just giving up on the Southern supper theme and that's fine with me. I don't read fiction books for recipes.
Speaking of marketing, I think the cover does the book a disservice. It's colorful enough but it took me a bit to realize that the car's driver is supposed to be a parrot wearing, I guess, goggles. It's not immediately obvious to me that it IS a parrot. The empty background gives no other clues. I'm sure that the publisher didn't have access to the artist who did the other covers, but a background with shops or Florida things might have helped alert people. It's just so different from the other covers that someone who was reading the series would not immediately thing that this is a book in that series.
I don't see there are any more listed but I'd read another if one comes out.
Speaking of marketing, I think the cover does the book a disservice. It's colorful enough but it took me a bit to realize that the car's driver is supposed to be a parrot wearing, I guess, goggles. It's not immediately obvious to me that it IS a parrot. The empty background gives no other clues. I'm sure that the publisher didn't have access to the artist who did the other covers, but a background with shops or Florida things might have helped alert people. It's just so different from the other covers that someone who was reading the series would not immediately thing that this is a book in that series.
I don't see there are any more listed but I'd read another if one comes out.
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