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A review by ncrabb
All Murders Final! by Sherry Harris
3.0
I last visited this series on February 20th of this year. I figure it’s time to read the third book in the series and put it to bed.
Sarah Winston, a New England garage sale afficionado, is still juggling men as this book opens. Her former husband is the current chief of police in the small Massachusetts town where she lives. But she also has a thing for the up-and-coming District Attorney. It's not a real great plot line, but it's at least a continuation of the earlier books in the series.
In this book, Sarah operates a garage sale business online. It goes reasonably well until she gets into an argument with one of the members of her virtual garage sale group and that woman dies. She doesn't just die; someone brutally murders her. Since Sarah found the body, everyone suspects her of being the killer. She didn't do it; You get that information early in the book. But it's up to her to figure out who did. Before this ends, a cleaning woman will die. Someone murders her, too. The dead women have in common the fact that they both belonged to Sarah's garage sale group. She is rapidly learning that an online garage sale is harder to maintain than the old-fashioned ones done in person. Someone keeps taking pictures of Sarah in various situations. They post the pictures to a Snapchat-like service, and they make sure Sarah gets to see them. These are creepy threatening pictures. This plotline helps increase the suspense for the entire book.
These books are far from awful. But nor are they the kind of books that leave you leaning forward gripping your book player as though it might fly out of your hands at the sheer magnificence of the plot. They're OK, and I'm glad I read as much of the series as I did. Will I continue with it? I don't think so. My local library doesn't offer any more of it on audio, and the National Library Service for the Blind has no more installments either. I can get them from Bookshare, but these are not gripping enough for me to get through them with synthetic speech. It was fun while it lasted though. And I would read this author again if I had an opportunity. But probably not this series.
Sarah Winston, a New England garage sale afficionado, is still juggling men as this book opens. Her former husband is the current chief of police in the small Massachusetts town where she lives. But she also has a thing for the up-and-coming District Attorney. It's not a real great plot line, but it's at least a continuation of the earlier books in the series.
In this book, Sarah operates a garage sale business online. It goes reasonably well until she gets into an argument with one of the members of her virtual garage sale group and that woman dies. She doesn't just die; someone brutally murders her. Since Sarah found the body, everyone suspects her of being the killer. She didn't do it; You get that information early in the book. But it's up to her to figure out who did. Before this ends, a cleaning woman will die. Someone murders her, too. The dead women have in common the fact that they both belonged to Sarah's garage sale group. She is rapidly learning that an online garage sale is harder to maintain than the old-fashioned ones done in person. Someone keeps taking pictures of Sarah in various situations. They post the pictures to a Snapchat-like service, and they make sure Sarah gets to see them. These are creepy threatening pictures. This plotline helps increase the suspense for the entire book.
These books are far from awful. But nor are they the kind of books that leave you leaning forward gripping your book player as though it might fly out of your hands at the sheer magnificence of the plot. They're OK, and I'm glad I read as much of the series as I did. Will I continue with it? I don't think so. My local library doesn't offer any more of it on audio, and the National Library Service for the Blind has no more installments either. I can get them from Bookshare, but these are not gripping enough for me to get through them with synthetic speech. It was fun while it lasted though. And I would read this author again if I had an opportunity. But probably not this series.