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pages_for_holly's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
auntbopp's review
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
tmager's review
Have to DNF this one. The main characters decisions just don’t make any sense to me. She continues to let people treat her like garbage and it’s to frustrating to read.
chuckdolton's review
3.0
Good start to a new series. Thought I had figured out who the killer was but I was wrong.
xkay_readsx's review against another edition
3.0
I like the garage sale theme, different from bakery or craft store. Will see how the next one is since it started out like any other cozy mystery with a divorcee starting over, but the ending was an unexpected one.
gimmetacos's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
Not a fun cozy to read. May be fun to people familiar with the military, or folks who like depressing mysteries. It started out pleasing but just stayed depressing. I also hate how the cops treated her, she did nothing wrong and seemed like a nice person. I mean, someone accused her of being the volunteer queen!! Why were they so petty to her? it's weird that people assumed the bones belonged to Tiffany. Unless they put her body in acid, don't think she would have been a clown skeleton in less than a week.
ncrabb's review
3.0
C. J. Hooker had a good career in military law enforcement going for him. He was once married to Sarah, a lovely person in her own right who enjoyed visiting garage sales or tag sales as they are known in parts of New England. Sarah was good at finding bargains, maybe not so good at picking committed husbands. It seems C. J.’s commitment to Sarah vaporized when the voluptuous Tiffany, also a member of the military and serving on the same base as Hooker, began flaunting her more impressive self to the cop.
Fresh off a new divorce, Sarah has to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She is amazing at working the garage sale circuit, and she can’t help but wonder whether there’s a career in it somehow for her. As the book opens, she volunteers at a local thrift shop where she brings many of the items that don’t sell at garage sales.
The divorce wasn’t as quiet or amicable as Sarah would have liked. Tiffany’s friends turned on Sarah hard core on Facebook, forcing Sarah to delete the account. One day after snagging good bargains at local garage sales and sorting through the clothing, she found a bloodstained shirt that once belonged to her ex-husband. The next day, Sarah finds Tiffany’s skeletal remains in a dumpster behind the thrift shop where she volunteers. Can the ex-wife keep her former husband from becoming an ex-cop? She sets out to clear his name as the book progresses. But before she can do that, another young woman dies, bludgeoned to death by someone using a statue that had once been in Sarah’s house. As the evidence against Sarah’s ex-husband mounts, local military leaders ban Sarah from the airbase. Her restricted movement means solving the crime and getting her ex out of jail is much harder than it might have been. All the while, Sarah’s new burgeoning career as a garage sale organizer is growing nicely.
I’ll revisit this series; I already have additional installments of it downloaded. I loved the narration. You just can’t bean an APH narrator anywhere. If it comes from that studio, you can settle in for a grand listening experience. And so it was this time.
NLS:
Tagged for death DB81030
Harris, Sherry, (Mystery writer). Reading time: 8 hours, 11 minutes.
Read by Theresa Conkin. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Mystery and Detective Stories
Sarah Winston leaves her airman husband CJ because of his one-night stand with a nineteen-year-old coworker. Now CJ is the chief of police in their small Massachusetts town, while Sarah runs garage sales. But mysterious calls with gunshots and a bloody shirt all ominously point to CJ. Some violence and some strong language. 2014.
Fresh off a new divorce, Sarah has to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She is amazing at working the garage sale circuit, and she can’t help but wonder whether there’s a career in it somehow for her. As the book opens, she volunteers at a local thrift shop where she brings many of the items that don’t sell at garage sales.
The divorce wasn’t as quiet or amicable as Sarah would have liked. Tiffany’s friends turned on Sarah hard core on Facebook, forcing Sarah to delete the account. One day after snagging good bargains at local garage sales and sorting through the clothing, she found a bloodstained shirt that once belonged to her ex-husband. The next day, Sarah finds Tiffany’s skeletal remains in a dumpster behind the thrift shop where she volunteers. Can the ex-wife keep her former husband from becoming an ex-cop? She sets out to clear his name as the book progresses. But before she can do that, another young woman dies, bludgeoned to death by someone using a statue that had once been in Sarah’s house. As the evidence against Sarah’s ex-husband mounts, local military leaders ban Sarah from the airbase. Her restricted movement means solving the crime and getting her ex out of jail is much harder than it might have been. All the while, Sarah’s new burgeoning career as a garage sale organizer is growing nicely.
I’ll revisit this series; I already have additional installments of it downloaded. I loved the narration. You just can’t bean an APH narrator anywhere. If it comes from that studio, you can settle in for a grand listening experience. And so it was this time.
NLS:
Tagged for death DB81030
Harris, Sherry, (Mystery writer). Reading time: 8 hours, 11 minutes.
Read by Theresa Conkin. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Mystery and Detective Stories
Sarah Winston leaves her airman husband CJ because of his one-night stand with a nineteen-year-old coworker. Now CJ is the chief of police in their small Massachusetts town, while Sarah runs garage sales. But mysterious calls with gunshots and a bloody shirt all ominously point to CJ. Some violence and some strong language. 2014.
find10's review
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0