The Dead of Midnight: A Mystery

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Summary: Nearly right !
Review: A group of mystery story fans meets regularly to review the latest thrillers but when the plots of a particular author begin to play out in real life, and some of the book club members are murdered in the same style as those in the latest book, people really start to look over their shoulders.It's an interesting premise and though I believe that the author threw in too many unnecessary characters as red herrings, perhaps her style will improve with more experience.

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Summary: The Dead of Midnight
Review: Im a 14-year-old that lives in New York and this 360 page thrill ride caught from the very first sentence. It is a very interesting plot with the copy-cat murders. Yet the reveiling of the murderer caught me off guard, the most unexpected character in the story. I love how the descriptions were accurately executed enough to get you inside the reader's mind. This book takes a grip on the reader and does not let go. I recommend this book to anyone who likes crime investigations and a good mystery.

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Summary: Book Clubs, Coffee and Murders
Review: Members of a book club hungrily read each installment of the Midnight Mystery Novels. The discussions are held at the local coffee book club and draw a big crowd. In this tightknit accidents and murders start to occur with similarities to the plot of each book. Sarah Peterson is the first victim and why recovers from her injuries she receives a call from the family lawyer. It seems her mother bequeath her journals and writings to her and she is to take delivery of them on her twenty fifth birthday. Soon after receiving them they are stolen and more accidents happen. Everyone has a motive or reason to cause
these acts to happen but who is copycatting the plots of the book. Hunter started out with a great plot idea, use a book club as a backdrop for murder. After that she has a hard time holding the plot together so she adds more characters and actions to move it along. This weighs the book down and makes it hard to accept the ending. As a debut novel she has good ideas and hopefully her next editor will have her write a tighter plot.

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Summary: interesting, but somewhat strange mystery
Review: The members of Winnipeg's Mystery Au Lait Cafe book club cannot get enough of the Midnight Mystery novels. However, the excitement that the series has brought turns to terror when someone decides life imitates art by killing off club members using scenes from the novels. The police look for the author Walter White without much success.

Accountant Sarah Petursson finds that someone steals recently found journals written by her mother. Still Sarah continues her search for her father's identity. Meanwhile reporter Cady Brown begins to close in on the agent of the mysterious White. Someone harasses Cady and Sarah with the only link between them being the latter's ex husband Peter who is the journalist's boyfriend. As the murder mystery and Sarah's personal search link, a ghost tries to guide her. Sales for the mystery novels explode and rumors abound that a new sixth book is being released. Everyone seeks clues inside the tales as no one wants to become the next victim.

THE DEAD OF MIDNIGHT is an interesting, but somewhat strange mystery tale that has a lot going for it, especially suspense, but contains too many red herrings that leave the audience somewhat confused at times. Still, Sarah is a wonderful protagonist and the club members are an intriguing group who start off as friends, but quickly suspect one another. Loaded with incredible layers of suspense, readers will find this is an engaging novel as Catherine Hunter hooks audience into wanting to know who is the killer, what happened to the journals, and does the sixth book, if it exists, contain clues to the next murder?

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: interesting, but somewhat strange mystery
Review: The members of Winnipeg's Mystery Au Lait Cafe book club cannot get enough of the Midnight Mystery novels. However, the excitement that the series has brought turns to terror when someone decides life imitates art by killing off club members using scenes from the novels. The police look for the author Walter White without much success.

Accountant Sarah Petursson finds that someone steals recently found journals written by her mother. Still Sarah continues her search for her father's identity. Meanwhile reporter Cady Brown begins to close in on the agent of the mysterious White. Someone harasses Cady and Sarah with the only link between them being the latter's ex husband Peter who is the journalist's boyfriend. As the murder mystery and Sarah's personal search link, a ghost tries to guide her. Sales for the mystery novels explode and rumors abound that a new sixth book is being released. Everyone seeks clues inside the tales as no one wants to become the next victim.

THE DEAD OF MIDNIGHT is an interesting, but somewhat strange mystery tale that has a lot going for it, especially suspense, but contains too many red herrings that leave the audience somewhat confused at times. Still, Sarah is a wonderful protagonist and the club members are an intriguing group who start off as friends, but quickly suspect one another. Loaded with incredible layers of suspense, readers will find this is an engaging novel as Catherine Hunter hooks audience into wanting to know who is the killer, what happened to the journals, and does the sixth book, if it exists, contain clues to the next murder?

Harriet Klausner