Murder, She Wrote: Rum & Razors

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Summary: Razor up some good old-fashioned mystery!
Review: "Rum and Razors" is by far the best Donald Bain has written. Going away on a much-needed vacation to the Caribbean, America's favorite amateur sleuth, Jessica Fletcher, soon wishes she was back home in Cabot Cove, Maine. During a therapeutic stroll along the seashore, a body is discovered and everyone at the local inn is thoroughly investigated. I could not put this book down and neither will readers. This mystery is for all Murder, She Wrote fans.

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Summary: Do yourself a favor and read this book.
Review: I think this is the best Murder, She Wrote book out there and I've read just about all of them. I can't come up with any complaints regarding this book. The setting was great, the charactors, and the plot itself was outstanding. It was hard to put the book down once I started to read it. It will be difficult for Fletcher & Bain to make a better story.

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Summary: Jessica's done the prime writing again!
Review: In this mystery, Jessica is befounded to actually see her dear friend, Walter Marschalk, dead in St. Thomas island! While searching for answers, she meets several people (including another J. Fletcher) who all help her along the way, but every new person is a suspect in her eyes. I thought this was a best for Fletcher&Bain, compared to others.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: Jessica is off to the beautiful US Virgin Islands to get away from a harsh Maine winter. She checks into her hotel owned by old friends called Lovers Lagoon, which is being run out of buisness by another hotel next door. One night when Jessica is walking on the beach she discovers the body of one of the owners. Jessica does some checking in to the murder, and finds out something shady has been going on at the hotel. This is one of my favorite Murder She Wrote books I've read. The plot though is very similar to the book Murder At The Powderhorn Ranch, that's why I gave it a 4 star

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Summary: Ok
Review: Not one of the better books in the MSW series. Almost none of the characters are likable except for the infamous J.B. Fletcher and even then with some of the nastiness directed towards her by other characters, the amount of patience she displays borders on the unbelivable. The descriptions of surroundings though are rich and make you almost feel like you're there! Not the best of the lot, but not too shabby either!

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Summary: Murder at Lover Lagoon's Inn
Review: This is the first book I read in the "Murder, She Wrote" series. Jessica Fletcher, the main character in the story is off to Lover Lagoon for a vacation. She knew the owners and were on good terms with them. It was one night when she was taking a walk at Lover Lagoon when she discovered the body of one of the owners,Walter Marschalk. She was determinded to find out the murderer. Walter's previous job was a famous travel writer and so Jessica accept the invitation of the owner of rival inn, Diamond Reef, to have dinner with a group of travel writers. She found out that Walter was not well-liked among his friends. As the story goes on, Jessica found a lot of suspects and discovered a lot of unexpected things. I find the story moveing on a bit too slow and the ending is also abrupt. But overall it is a nice book.

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Summary: "A Caribbean Mystery"
Review: This is the second book in the series of the new "Murder, she wrote" mysteries. This time murder takes a holiday with Jessica to the Caribbean. She settles into an extremely luxurious and expensive resort, property of old friends from Cabot Cove and, both writers; he a travel writer who produces his own tour guides; and she, a gourmet cook who mixes her Maine coking with that of the islands. However, as soon as she arrives Jessica senses a lot of tension in her hosts (the owners of the inn). Problems succeed one another until, during a night stroll about the beach, Jessica herself finds a corpse. None other than her own host friend, brutally murdered. Jessica is not convinced of the guilt of an ex-employee who's been apprehended by the police, and she launches into a sleuthing sequence of events that very much annoys everybody, including the local police and her newly widowed host-friend.

I have found this book to be more truthful than the first one to the characters created in the original TV series. It certainly is an improvement from "Manhattans & murder", (which was the first one), but I would not exactly characterize it as unique. The first chapters are somewhat slow, then the murder happens, quite unexpectedly and it will catch you by surprise - good. More slowness right up to the point where the novel really picks-up (too many red herrings perhaps?); and then in the last five chapters is when I couldn't put it down. I have to say also, that although in the TV series Jessica's power of deduction to solve murders is extremely fast and brilliant; in this book she seems much slower. I could pinpoint whodunit even faster than her - something I don't usually achieve with the TV version. Readers new to mysteries will find this an enchanting, maybe even exciting, novel; but as far as I am concerned, it is a simple one.

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Summary: An excellent read!!!
Review: This was a very good book. When Jessica goes to visit her friends debt ridden inn in the Carribean, she is delighted to be there. But when her friend is found murdered{by a razor of course}, Her beautiful vacation is ruined. When she starts her own investigation, She turns up a side of the Carribean you never want to see, the dark side. That is a common trait with Jess, get snooping and find the dark side of people. But any-way, the only problem with this book is that it becomes obivous who commited the crime in the last five chapters. Even though, this still a great book.