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jesssicawho's review
3.0
A light mystery with a sharp protagonist. A little dated, but enjoyable nonetheless.
nocto's review
it's curious how both books i read at the beach had cold sounding titles. not much was frozen in this book except for the margaritas. very little mystery here, a three year old body turns up but seems to have very little to do with any of the main characters. it's more 'sam goes to the theatre' with a little bit of mystery in the background building up to some dangerous stuff near the end. enjoyable for the foreground and the characters rather than for the mystery element.
verityw's review
4.0
Another glimpse into bohemian life in late 90s Camden, but with murder, bitching and mayhem thrown in. Lots of fun.
wealhtheow's review
4.0
These are pure delicious crack. I read this series back in high school and loved them, and they stand up to a reread. Sam is a highly-sexed sculptor who has a tendency to get involved in murder investigations. I really like her, and I really like her stories, which are funny, sexy *and* filled with suspence.
writerlibrarian's review
3.0
Almost 4 stars. It's a entertaining romp of a chase for Sam who is hired to created mobiles for a reprise of Midsummer night dream. The actors, the director, the theater's people are all locked in a who did what and why struggle. Sam gets caught by the drama and kinda find someone who matches her wit and dry humor. It's a fun read, the fauna of the theater is well done. The culprit is not who I thought it was and it also wasn't an unlikely suspects. So win-win. A good plot, good atmosphere and cool characters. Not 4 stars because of the repetitive use of Johnny Cash's Boy named Sue. It felt pasted on like in a bad song fic.
julieputty's review
4.0
This series is so entertaining, with a zippy heroine and a snarky worldvies.
mcf's review
4.0
This was a bit of an odd read -- very unconventional in some ways, and quite unconventional in others. On one hand, there was something rather cozy about it, set as it was in a theater company beset by small acts of sabotage that led, inevitably and contentedly, to murder. On the other, however, the main character was a wonderfully independent, cynical woman whose sexual taste diverged far from the mainstream, and the story was so character-focused as to almost not really care about the inevitably of murder and the necessity of staging some sort of denouement. Taken as a whole, it was delightful -- not at all what I expected, and all the better because of it. Won't run right off to read the rest of the series, but I suspect I will happily make my way through them eventually.
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