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A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Cece is staging a play featuring the beloved sleuth Miss Marple. Of course, everything goes wrong, including a leading lady who ends up dead. All is not well in Christietown; its secrets are as complicated as the truth behind Agatha Christie's real-life show more disappearance. The developer, an Englishman who claims to be Dame Agatha's descendent, has ruthless investors breathing down his neck. Meanwhile, Cece's got a wedding to plan, a baby shower to give, and an ex-husband who shows up on her doorstep with his fiancée and future mother-in-law. And when another body surfaces, the intrepid amateur sleuth knows she must play the famed detective for real--or suffer the same mysterious fate. show lessTags
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This book flew by much faster for me than the previous one, [b:Shamus in the Green Room|458613|Shamus in the Green Room (Cece Caruso, #3)|Susan Kandel|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174938508s/458613.jpg|447103]. Kandel wove the present-day plot in with the story of Agatha Christie's famous 11-day disappearance very cleverly. The sections dealing with Cece's friends and family provided relief, comic and otherwise, from the murder plot. However, I'm getting a little tired of Cece's skittishness about marrying her police detective fiance. But I'll keep reading if Kandel keeps writing.
A disappointment. Compared to all the others in the series, which I have read, this is the weakest entry. Tne concept of the series is good, but in this book, the execution was poor.
Wish this series wasn't about to end.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Christietown
- Original publication date
- 2007-06-12
- Important places
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Members
- 155
- Popularity
- 210,842
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.52)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 2
