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Summary: Great Woman with an Attitude!
Review: "The House on Bloodhound Lane," the second in the "Bloodhound series," has confirmed it. Virginia Lanier has just zoomed to the top of "My Favorite Mystery Writers'" list!! (Even better than Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, which is saying a LOT!!)I can't believe that I have just now discovered Virginia Lanier's great characters! Jo Beth Sidden is a feminist with an attitude and such a wonderful character! I love how she is always trying to improve and "fix" her friends' lives (because her own is so often in such chaos)! I couldn't put this book down. It has SO many intricate sub-plots and I love the dialogue. It is great to read so much about the dogs as well. I especially liked how Lanier took the readers back to Bobby tracking Mary Ann. Lanier is such a gifted and intelligent writer to devise methodically the reasoning that spews out of Jo Beth's character. I've already started "tracking" down the hardback editions of Lanier's books. They are keepers. Other mysteries that I've rated as 5 stars are good, but they don't come close to Lanier's Bloodhound Series! She is THAT GOOD!
Rating:
Summary: Great Woman with an Attitude!
Review: "The House on Bloodhound Lane," the second in the "Bloodhound series," has confirmed it. Virginia Lanier has just zoomed to the top of "My Favorite Mystery Writers'" list!! (Even better than Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, which is saying a LOT!!) I can't believe that I have just now discovered Virginia Lanier's great characters! Jo Beth Sidden is a feminist with an attitude and such a wonderful character! I love how she is always trying to improve and "fix" her friends' lives (because her own is so often in such chaos)! I couldn't put this book down. It has SO many intricate sub-plots and I love the dialogue. It is great to read so much about the dogs as well. I especially liked how Lanier took the readers back to Bobby tracking Mary Ann. Lanier is such a gifted and intelligent writer to devise methodically the reasoning that spews out of Jo Beth's character. I've already started "tracking" down the hardback editions of Lanier's books. They are keepers. Other mysteries that I've rated as 5 stars are good, but they don't come close to Lanier's Bloodhound Series! She is THAT GOOD!
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Summary: Lanier Has Done it Again
Review: As Lanier did in her first book, she grabs you and pulls you into the swamp with feminist Jo Beth. Her description is remarkable making you feel a dog leash yanking on your arm, or a mosquito biting you. This book has everything you could ask for, action, romance, mystery, and deception.
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Summary: Superb reading
Review: I have read all of Virginia Lanier's books (date of review 8/7/00). All five are full of excitement and suspense as well as romance and humor. Being a dog lover myself, I was fascinated by the nuances of caring for, training, and working with bloodhounds. I just finished her last book in the series and I will sorely miss Jo Beth and her adventures into the swamp with her magnificent dogs. I am eagerly awaiting the next one!
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Summary: Superb reading
Review: I have read all of Virginia Lanier's books (date of review 8/7/00). All five are full of excitement and suspense as well as romance and humor. Being a dog lover myself, I was fascinated by the nuances of caring for, training, and working with bloodhounds. I just finished her last book in the series and I will sorely miss Jo Beth and her adventures into the swamp with her magnificent dogs. I am eagerly awaiting the next one!
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Summary: A real page-turner! I couldn't put it down!!
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves dogs, the south, and fiesty heroines. This is the first Virginia Lanier book I've read, but it won't be the last! I'm going to buy the rest of her books as soon as I can find them. You'll fall in love with Bobby Lee and wish you had a bloodhound of your own.
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Summary: Very enjoyable,lots of humor and suspense.
Review: I picked up this book at the grocery store because I was desperate[nothing to read!],what a pleasant surprise!Since I had never heard of the author or this series of 'bloodhound'books,I gambled 6 bucks and I won! The heroine,Jo Beth Sidden,has a bloodhound training complex with assorted interesting employees and different plot lines make the book interesting from beginning to end. I will be definitly be reading the rest of the books in this series! Kim Vei
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Summary: Great!
Review: I'm a (Southern, female) dog trainer who also loves mysteries. How could I resist? Yet I have been very disappointed in some other mystery books/series that featured dogs. Not with this one! Everything reads true - the dogs and the trainer's relationship with them, the language, the rural Southern culture and especially Jo Beth Siddons, the fiesty feminist heroine. The plot is compelling, with several mysteries, interesting relationships and Jo Beth's own brand of justice. But you don't need to like dogs to enjoy this book ... you just need to like a really well-written mystery.
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Summary: A lovable canine hero
Review: In this, the second of Virginia Lanier's suspenseful and entertaining series, we're treated to more adventures of Jo Beth Sidden, feminist, good ol' girl and woman of much guile. Her cleverness and resourcefulness rise to the occasion in a number of subplots, but the main mystery concerns the search for a man who's been buried alive. Old friends from "Death in Bloodhound Red" return, and we meet new ones, including a love interest for Jo Beth (a relationship that starts off most inauspiciously and hilariously). The real hero, however, is a blind-from-birth bloodhound puppy of exceptional brilliance named Bobby Lee. He's a truly lovable character, delightfully portrayed. Dog people and readers who like a Southern setting and/or a strong female protagonist should not miss this series.
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Summary: Good airport read
Review: This book made a three hour airport delay tolerable - something that many books can't do. Jo Beth is back with her nice mix of sass and humor. The kennel is growing but there are a few problems - including a vicious ex-husband on the loose and a missing businessman. Romance is in the air for all the ladies at the kennel - or so it seems. The highlights of the book are two-fold. First, it's always nice to read a mystery that doesn't have a dead body. Second, and most endearing, is Bobby Lee, the brilliant, blind bloodhound. Bottom-line: Nothing extraordinary but good enough to pass along to my dog loving niece.
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