Red Wine Goes With Murder (Mysteries by Design)

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Summary: Red Wine Goes With Murder by Paula Carter
Review: An amateurish story that insults Southerners, feminists and American tourists in one fell swoop. The dialogue is often silly without true humour. This book is definitely not in a class with those by authors such as Grafton, Kellerman (Jonathan or Faye) or P.D. James.I found myself scanning pages to avoid the simplistic repartee between characters. It is hard to believe the supposedly educated lead characters had such a disregard for foreign languages or customs and such a limited knowledge of common French phrases. C'est dommage! I will not buy another book by this author until her writing matures.

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Summary: The French Cuisine of Reading!
Review: It's a great book that will hold you until the end of the book. The book has that warm southern feel to it, yet it will keep you on the edge to read more about the adventures of Hillary and Jane as they always seem to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Overall, a great book worth reading on a long winter day.

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Summary: Simplistic and painful
Review: The most unbelievable thing about this novel is the dialog. People just don't talk like that to each other. Painful to read.

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Summary: Simplistic and painful
Review: This is the first of this series that I've read. It won't be the last. I truly enjoyed this cozy series. The two main characters are Hillary and Jane. Hillary is a Southern Belle who is rich. She is a decorator but cooks too. Jane is a single mom who can't cook or decorate but works for Hillary. They are fun together and get into all sorts of messes.

In this book they go to the south of France so Hillary cn attend a prestigious cooking school. Hillary wants to rent a house that is expensive (even for her) so she gets other people from their Alabama town to go to France with her. Of course there are murders and Hillary and Jane are in the thick of things but end up solving the murders.

I actually wondered about the people who ended up being involved. I didn't solve it exactly but was on the right track. I can't wait to read the other books in this series: Deathday Party and Leading an Elegant Death.

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Summary: Great cozy
Review: This is the first of this series that I've read. It won't be the last. I truly enjoyed this cozy series. The two main characters are Hillary and Jane. Hillary is a Southern Belle who is rich. She is a decorator but cooks too. Jane is a single mom who can't cook or decorate but works for Hillary. They are fun together and get into all sorts of messes.

In this book they go to the south of France so Hillary cn attend a prestigious cooking school. Hillary wants to rent a house that is expensive (even for her) so she gets other people from their Alabama town to go to France with her. Of course there are murders and Hillary and Jane are in the thick of things but end up solving the murders.

I actually wondered about the people who ended up being involved. I didn't solve it exactly but was on the right track. I can't wait to read the other books in this series: Deathday Party and Leading an Elegant Death.