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Yard sales can bring out the worst in people. So when Scumble River school psychologist Skye Denison organizes a 100-mile yard sale, otherwise neighborly folk get downright nasty: her own mother creams a woman, and a battle of the sexes breaks out. But when her former boss is found murdered, nobody knows for sure how this cookie will crumble.Tags
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The quotes from forwarded emails weren't quite as obvious and distracting in this one, so I gave it an extra star. Plus, the heroine is starting to get interested in the police chief instead of the funeral director, so that's looking up a little. Somebody who doesn't get tons of forwarded emails & hasn't seen all the jokes before would probably be more amused by this series than I am.
Good mystery. I like that this is set in Illinois. Skye Denison doesn't seem too far-fetched for a sleuth but of course this little itty-bitty town seems to have more than its share of murders.
I really loved this book because it is notonly a cozy but it has talk of antiques and collectibles, which I also love.
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- Canonical title
- Murder of a Smart Cookie
- Original title
- Murder of a Smart Cookie
- Original publication date
- 2005-07-05
- People/Characters
- Skye Denison (school psychologist, daughter of Jed and May Denison); Cookie Caldwell (antiques dealer, owns Cookie's Collectibles); Wally Boyd (Walter, Scumble River Police Chief); Alma Griggs (a widow who needs money for her property taxes, her daughter, Sterling, died the month & year Skye was born); May Leofanti Denison (police dispatcher, wife of Jed, mother of Vince and Skye); Dante Leofanti (Mayor, older brother of May and Minnie, husband of Olive, father of Hugo) (show all 49); Bingo (Skye's cat, black except for a patch of white on his chest, declawed, was her late grandmother's pet); Trixie Bensen Frayne (Scumble River High School librarian and cheerleader coach, Skye's best friend); Sheriff Buck Peterson of Stanley County (4 pennies short of a nickel, according to Sky's Grandma Cora); Faith Easton (star of 'Faith's Finds' TV show on the Heartland Channel); Simon Reid (coroner, owns local funeral home, which he inherited from his uncle, Quentin Reid | Skye's boyfriend); Bunny Reid (manager, Bunny Lanes Bowling Alley, Simon's mother); Jed Denison (Jedidiah, a farmer, husband of May, father of Vince and Skye); Andrea Pantaleone (health inspector for the Scumble River First Annual Route 66 Yard Sale); Justin Boward (a brilliant high school student); Frannie Ryan (Xavier Ryan's daughter); Xavier Ryan (Simon Reid's assistant, was a medic in Vietnam); Owen Frayne (a farmer, Trixie's husband); Nick Jarvis (Producter & director of 'Faith's Finds'); Lovie (Faith's Pomeranian); Kirby Tucker (head writer for 'Faith's Finds'); Jody Iverson (Faith's personal assistant); Chocolate (Jed Denison's Labrador Retriever); Officer Roy Quirk (Scumble River Police second in command); Earl Doozier, Senior (current patriarch of the colorful Doozier family, one of the Red-Ragger families); Glenda Doozier (Earl's wife, the epitome of the Red-Raggers' ideal woman); Junior Doozier; Cletus Doozier (son of Hap, younger brother of Earl Doozier, Senior); Elvira Doozier (younger sister of Earl Doozier, Sr., called his niece in ch. 13); a former lion the Dooziers rented for the yard sale (Kitty is not part of their petting zoo); Bitsy Kessler (high school student who wants to date Justin); Olive Leofanti (Dante's wife); Ginger Overby Allen (bank teller, Skye's younger cousin, Gillian's twin); Deputy McCabe; Nate Turner (owns a landscaping service, looks like Jabba the Hut, a father pleased with Skye's recommendation for his son); Kitty Denison (Skye's aunt); Cora Denison (Grandma, Jed and Wiley's widowed mother, famous for her dinner rolls, 84 years old); Vince Denison (owner of Great Expectations hair salon, four years older than sister Skye); Will Murphy (manager & lead singer for the Godly Crüe, a rock gospel group); Mirabel Elliott (drummer for the Godly Crüe); Rosalind Gallen (guitarist for the Godly Crüe); Delilah Forsythe (plays the keyboard for the Godly Crüe, least attractive member of the band); Montgomery Lapp (antiques picker & the fussiest of the guests at Trixie's temporary B&B); Wiley Dennison (Jed's older brother); Joy Kessler (Bitsy's mother); Rusty (high school student who joined the school paper staff two weeks before school let out); Burnett Parnell (makes and sells goat cheese, has prizewinning goats); Wanda (a visitor who has a run in with Kitty the lion); Thea Jones (a long-time police dispatcher)
- Important places
- Scumble River, Illinois, USA (town 75 miles south of Chicago); Cookie's Collectibles antique shop, Scumble River; Bunny Lanes Bowling Alley, Scumble River
- Dedication
- To my dear friends
Joyce and John Davero
Monika and Joe Bradley
Nancy and Robert Chidel
Andrea Pantaleone, Wes Dodd, Kay Lynn Shoemaker, Laurie Bianchetta, Sandy Kral, Donna Sears, Monica Granger and Anne Hiller - First words
- Cookie Caldwell died the third Sunday in August, and the Scumble River First Annual Route 66 Yard Sale almost died with her.
- Quotations
- [According to the Author's Note in Murder of a Stacked Librarian] This book takes place in June 2003.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She would never have thought Simon capable of being unfaithful, but what other explanation could there be?
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- Languages
- English
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