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Summary: A terrific mystery!
Review: A well-written mystery with many a twist in the plot. The characters are interesting and the book keeps you guessing until the very end.
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Summary: A terrific mystery!
Review: A well-written mystery with many a twist in the plot. The characters are interesting and the book keeps you guessing until the very end.
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Summary: A great summer mystery.
Review: I loved this book, although at first I found it hard to accept the premise that a woman would just chuck a vacation for herself and go off to become a nanny. But it turned out to be an excellent story with a well-written and suspenseful plot. It also gives a nice sense of the society of the 1940's, when people did enjoy staying in tourist camps and life was simpler. The lurking evil is first rate, a couple of perfect red-herrings and fully developed characters make this a fun book for summer reading, especially if you like the Great Lakes.
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Summary: A great summer mystery.
Review: I loved this book, although at first I found it hard to accept the premise that a woman would just chuck a vacation for herself and go off to become a nanny. But it turned out to be an excellent story with a well-written and suspenseful plot. It also gives a nice sense of the society of the 1940's, when people did enjoy staying in tourist camps and life was simpler. The lurking evil is first rate, a couple of perfect red-herrings and fully developed characters make this a fun book for summer reading, especially if you like the Great Lakes.
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Summary: Reading my moms books
Review: I was born in 1955. I read this book as a teenager and it was tremendously exciting. I read the book again as an adult with children and again I fell in love with it. It has the same mastery of writeing, as To Kill a Mockingbird. It isn't the same type of story. But the scare is timeless. The story is about a young woman who is a lone in the world without family. She is bright and intelligent and without any prospects for a family of her own. She meets a man with a charming child. He offers her a job takeing care of the boy while he pursues infomation on his long missing wife. During which time she poses as his wife. A long forgotten scandal is involved along with several tense moments as murder is uncovered and the suspicion that the man is involved in the unsolved deaths. Really great with a lot of suspense.
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Summary: A Great Mystery
Review: I'm at a loss as to how I can explain the value of this book, without giving away any particulars so important to the story. Yet, because I enjoyed it so much, I feel compelled to say at least something about it--if simply that this is one of the most gripping books I've ever read. From the opening words to the last, _Crying Sisters_ will keep you interested, keep you guessing, and thus keep you eagerly turning its pages to see what will happen next. As proof one need only read through its first few paragraphs. These I have copied for you below--so that you may draw your own conclusions as to the rest of the book: "I still pinch myself and say it isn't true. I still wake at night to reach for the tangible proof within touch of my hand. If anyone should say to me, 'Those things didn't really happen to you last summer; they're just part of some story you've read,' I'd probably have dazed moments of wondering if I couldn't distinguish between reality and fiction any more. "Because what happened to me last August went so far outside anything I'd known all the rest of my life that even while it was going on I often thought I must be imagining. "On one day--Saturday, thie thirtieth of July, to be exact--I was Janet Ruell, a respectable small-town librarian, driving north in my new car from Eldreth, Minnesota, for the first vacation I'd ever taken without my mother. My life had been openly humdrum and secretly desperate--the way life in a small town is for a girl who's still unmarried at twenty-nine. And the next day I was agreeing to go to an unknown resort under conditions which--well, Eldreth would have looked at them slant eyed. "_Agreeing_ to go. There's no getting away from the fact that I went to that resort of my own free choice. Even when I chose I knew something was hidden under the surface of what was offered me. I went of my own volition into those days when I heard death crying in the night, when I saw it indicated by a plantain leaf and discovered in a plaything, when I saw it rising in a muddy bundle from the lake. The time was to come when I felt myself living in the very house of death and eating at its table. And in the end . . . I wonder if I'd have had the courage to take what Steve Corbett offered me if I'd had premonitions."
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Summary: Reading my moms books
Review: If you've ever been to any of the old-time lake cabins in Minnesota, you'll feel like your there again when you read this classic 1940's mystery. The characters are perfect, and the setting, right down to the dirt and gravel paths to the lake, is so real you can almost see it. All Seeley's books have a real distinct 40's feel to them, so if you enjoy that, I'd say they're well worth your time.
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Summary: A classic mystery
Review: If you've ever been to any of the old-time lake cabins in Minnesota, you'll feel like your there again when you read this classic 1940's mystery. The characters are perfect, and the setting, right down to the dirt and gravel paths to the lake, is so real you can almost see it. All Seeley's books have a real distinct 40's feel to them, so if you enjoy that, I'd say they're well worth your time.
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