Running out of Time by Suzanne Trauth

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Restaurant manager Dodie O'Dell's themed food ideas have been called cute, clever, and delicious, but never revolutionary—until now. Dodie's Windjammer Restaurant is stocking the Etonville Little Theatre's concession stand with colonial-era desserts and drinks: Swamp Yankee applesauce cake, pumpkin bread, hot cider punch, and mulled wine to complement the latest production. A local playwright has adapted Thornton Wilder's Our Town into Eton Town, shifting the story show more to colonial America and the founding of Etonville, New Jersey, shortly after the Revolutionary War.

On opening night, hours before the curtain rises, Dodie runs into an agitated actress backstage with blood on her hands. Then a stranger is found among the chairs set for a graveyard scene with a knife in his chest. The show will not go on—the theatre is now a crime scene. Hoping to clear the red-handed suspect, Dodie returns to the role of amateur sleuth to mull over the clues and beat the backstage stabber to the punch—before someone else becomes history . . . show less

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cyderry 1,850 reviews

The Etonville Little Theater is going to performing a special version of Our Town but following the final dress rehearsal, Dodie finds a body on the set of Act 2. Her boyfriend, the police chief, has a broken ankle so he is out of commission so he brings in a PI to handle the investigation but Dodie doesn't trust him. Trying to communicate with a friend who turns out to be the prime suspect,gets Dodie into mountains of trouble. Fun series with great characters.

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Dec 30, 2017

Becky_L 956 reviews

Running Out of Time, by Suzanne Trauth, was a new cozy series for me. Dodie O'Dell, the manager of the Windjammer Café, promises to provide intermission treats for the town play. Before it finally opens, a stranger is found dead on the troublesome set.

Dodie's policeman boyfriend, Bill, breaks his ankle and calls in the dubious reinforcements of his suspicious friend, Archibald, from academy days.

Dodie spends a great deal of time trying to prove the innocence of a town newcomer while keeping secrets from Bill and hoping their relationship deepens despite her deceit.

We get good looks at both the restaurant and police office, which satisfies my need to see the main characters actually on the job. I enjoyed the tension of figuring out who show more Archibald really is.

One thing I didn't care for was the overuse of "my cell phone "binged.'" It became quite tedious to read that phrase over and over. The only other option seemed to be "my cell phone 'pinged.'"

While I usually want to see the relationship in a book progress, I was sorry to see the focus was only on the physical part of the relationship.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not required to leave a positive review, and all opinions are solely my responsibility. show less

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