From Here to Paternity

by Jill Churchill

Jane Jeffry (6)

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Vacationing at a Colorado ski resort with a couple of friends and an assortment of offspring, suburban sleuth Jane Jeffry is horrified when she careens into a snowman that hides a dead body inside of it.

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As all the Jane Jeffry mysteries are, From Here to Paternity is a light and fluffy mystery with lots of character interaction. Jane's neighbor invited her to visit a ski resort and share her opinion of whether it would be a good investment for the neighbor's husband. While there, Jane, as per usual, discovers a couple of bodies and sets off to discover the murderer with or without the help of detective boyfriend Mel. I liked the resort setting and appreciated the chance to see most of the characters outside of their normal, everyday situations. I was a little confused as to why Jane's opinion about investment property was important, but I guess you had to get her near the bodies somehow.
Standard mystery, ditsy women, lots of over-explaining their thoughts. Off the wall premise: Jane is helping to watch the other's children at a ski resort? Yet she hardly spends time with them. Jane's boyfriend is along but we rarely hear what he is doing, other than "spending time with the boys" unless she needs to ask him to use his connections to get info. Has a weak Native American storyline connection.
Obviously this isn't my usual genre, & I would never have picked it up except it came boxed with 9 other audio tapes, some of which I wanted.
½
I really enjoyed this book and will definitely look for more by this author.
Very Good mystery! Loved it!

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Jill Churchill (born Janice Young Brooks) on January 11, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned a degree in education from the University of Kansas in 1965 before teaching elementary school. Between 1978 and 1992, she was book reviewer for the Kansas City Star. She published several historical novels under her real name before introducing a new show more series in 1989. This mystery series follows Jane Jeffry, a widow with three children in Chicago. With her neighbor and best friend, she gets involved in murder cases. The novel titles are puns on literary works and reflect Jeffry's cozy domestic life which she leads between crime-solving episodes. Churchill is the winner of the Agatha and Macavity Awards for her first Jane Jeffrey novel and was featured in Great Women Mystery Writers in 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
From Here to Paternity
Original publication date
1995
People/Characters
Jane Jeffry; Shelley Nowack; Mel VanDyne
Important places
Chicago area, Illinois, USA
Dedication
This book is dedicated to all the other genealogists who have been such a help to me - especially
Caroll Geerling,
who so generously gave me all those Webers.
First words
"All we need now is a roaring fire and a bottle of wine," Jane Jeffry said contentedly as she looked out the window at the snow.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"What the hell the sheriff's name really is."
Blurbers
Peters, Elizabeth; Hart, Carolyn G; Diehl, Digby

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
LCC
PS3553 .H855 .F76Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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