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Button Holed (Button Box Mystery #1)
by
Kylie Logan
Working out of her button shop in a Chicago brownstone, Josie Giancola has become one of the country's leading experts on buttons. Her reputation draws a Hollywood starlet to the Button Box to shop for one-of-a-kind buttons to adorn her made-to-order wedding gown.
But after the Button Box is ransacked and the actress murdered, Josie's cozy world is thrown into chaos-and a k...more
But after the Button Box is ransacked and the actress murdered, Josie's cozy world is thrown into chaos-and a k...more
Paperback, 264 pages
Published
September 6th 2011
by Berkley
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This is a first in a series about a …button expert. I will say I would never have picked up this book on my own. It is just not something that would have attracted me. However, that is one of the reasons I belong to book clubs on Goodreads. This was a selection from the Cozy Mystery Corner group. I joined because cozies are a genre that are close to my heart (think MC Beaton, Simon Brett, Diane Mott Davidson, Agatha Christie). That is a plus for this book, definitely a genre I enjoy.
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I picked up this book because the blurb for book three (Panic Button) really grabbed me. I'm so glad I did. These books are light and fun with just the right touch of humor and quirk. Not to mention, I can no longer look at buttons in an antique store and NOT wonder about them.
The series follows Josie who is a button collector and dealer as she comes across murder, romance, an irritating ex-husband and a dishy homicide cop.
The first book sets the stage very well for the foundation characters of...more
The series follows Josie who is a button collector and dealer as she comes across murder, romance, an irritating ex-husband and a dishy homicide cop.
The first book sets the stage very well for the foundation characters of...more
Title: Button Holed (A Button Box Mystery #1)
Author: Kylie Logan
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN: 9780425243763
Synopsis (brom BN.com):
Working out of her button shop in a Chicago brownstone, Josie Giancola has become one of the country’s leading experts on buttons. Her reputation draws a Hollywood starlet to the Button Box to shop for one-of-a-kind buttons to adorn her made-to-order wedding gown.
But after the Button Box is ransacked and the actress murdered, Josie’s cozy world is thrown into ch...more
Author: Kylie Logan
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN: 9780425243763
Synopsis (brom BN.com):
Working out of her button shop in a Chicago brownstone, Josie Giancola has become one of the country’s leading experts on buttons. Her reputation draws a Hollywood starlet to the Button Box to shop for one-of-a-kind buttons to adorn her made-to-order wedding gown.
But after the Button Box is ransacked and the actress murdered, Josie’s cozy world is thrown into ch...more
Josie Giancola is not sure what has her more upset – having two gigantic men in ski masks threatening her in her new button shop or the fact that they’ve dumped out several drawers of her collection of nearly 100,000 buttons! Luckily, Josie is able to slip away into a back room to call the police and manages to get her shop back in order before celebrity client Kate “The Great” Franciscus arrives to select antique buttons for her custom wedding gown. Josie gets some good publicity from having su...more
This was a pleasant debut to a new series revolving around a 'button' collector/designer, and retailer. Josie Giancola, a divorcee has worked and saved up to open her own shop, named "The Button Box." Josie is an authority on buttons and even has worked on Movies in order to get the costuming authentic.
Through her professional connections, Josie is about to become famous to the 'Stars' since the famous actress, is seeking her wedding buttons from The Button Box. Then the unthinkable happens...mu...more
Through her professional connections, Josie is about to become famous to the 'Stars' since the famous actress, is seeking her wedding buttons from The Button Box. Then the unthinkable happens...mu...more
Button Holed is the first in this series. The author also writes as Casey Daniels and Miranda Bliss. Both, also very good series.
Josie Giancola has recently opened her antique button in the Old Town section of Chicago.
She is excited to be opening the store today, as the starlet, Kate Francisous, is going to be coming to shop to look for some antique buttons for wedding gown. But instead Josie finds two thugs ransacking her shop. Josie and her assistant hastily put the shop is some kind of order...more
Josie Giancola has recently opened her antique button in the Old Town section of Chicago.
She is excited to be opening the store today, as the starlet, Kate Francisous, is going to be coming to shop to look for some antique buttons for wedding gown. But instead Josie finds two thugs ransacking her shop. Josie and her assistant hastily put the shop is some kind of order...more
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Josie Giancola is known as a button expert for all kinds of buttons and has even worked in Hollywood. Today she is opening her new button shop, The Button Box, set up in a Chicago brownstone. She also has an appointment with a well known Hollywood starlet who wants to find the perfect buttons for her perfect wedding dress. Josie arrives extra early on her opening day to make sure everything is ready for her appointment only to find that her store has been broken into and ransacked. There are but...more
Here's what I adore about reading cozy mysteries, I learn something new in each one. It's either the niftiness of owning a cupcake bakery or managing a fab New York coffeeshop or making quilts or owning a bookstore, running a library or solving crimes with two Siamese cats.
BUTTON HOLED is a new one on me. Josie Giancola is a bit of a nerd for buttons, all kinds of buttons. And she has a button shop. She knows the walk-in clientele might be limited, but she has a healthy online button business,...more
BUTTON HOLED is a new one on me. Josie Giancola is a bit of a nerd for buttons, all kinds of buttons. And she has a button shop. She knows the walk-in clientele might be limited, but she has a healthy online button business,...more
This is a fun murder mystery to read -- it is about a woman with a button shop in Wicker Park, Chicago, for heaven's sake -- but it also features one of the oddest protagonists I have ever read.
For some reason, our delusional detective believes that most people think that button collecting is "nerdy." As opposed to basically never even considering button collecting at all, which is what I strongly suspect most non-button-collecting think about the activity. Beyond that, she seems to be living un...more
For some reason, our delusional detective believes that most people think that button collecting is "nerdy." As opposed to basically never even considering button collecting at all, which is what I strongly suspect most non-button-collecting think about the activity. Beyond that, she seems to be living un...more
I read about a hundred pages of this book before I decided to save myself the aggravation and give up. Josie was an okay character and if Logan had spent more time focused on Josie and her personality I would probably have finished the book. Instead Logan spends a lot of her time rehashing how bad Kaz, Josie's ex-husband, is for her but how hot he is and how every time she runs into him she thinks about getting back together because he's so hot... never-mind that he's a bit of a con man, a mooch...more
This was a good book. Josie is so obssessed with buttons that it makes it hard for her to be in relationships. She starts talking about buttons and then men vanish. Life it not made easier when her ex-husband, Kaz, comes calling for money. He's charming, but she's wise to his games, he's gotta owe someone money from his gambling addiction. Life is further complicated when the famous actress who wanted the perfect buttons for her wedding dress gets murdered in her shop. And of course her expertie...more
I really didn't expect this story to work - I mean seriously, buttons? But Logan does a very creditable job of making buttons part of the plot (and not just a clue). It all makes sense, the characters are worth reading about ... although I've had just about enough philandering ex-husbands in this genre, to be honest.
But the story is good, involving wedding plans, hidden pasts, and of course murder. Several elements of the plot are a bit shopworn (sorry), but I'll consider it worth looking up the...more
But the story is good, involving wedding plans, hidden pasts, and of course murder. Several elements of the plot are a bit shopworn (sorry), but I'll consider it worth looking up the...more
BUTTON HOLED is a terrific start to Kylie Logan's new cozy mystery series. Josie Giancola is a button expert with an extensive collection she showcases in her button shop in Chicago. A couple of disturbing events turn this quiet button dealer's world on end: (1) walking in on two thugs robbing the Button Box, and (2) finding a famous actress murdered in her shop who had come to her to buy buttons for her wedding gown. Could the events be related? Josie's interest in the case is piqued when she d...more
Josie Giancola is a button-expert, happy to be rid of her charming ne'er-do-well husband Kaz and to be opening her new button shop. Then beautiful megastar Kate Franciscus, whose patronage was going to put Josie on the map, is found murdered in Josie's shop. A voracious press is the least of Josie's problems, until she finds a strange button (yes, she can recognize them all!) in her shop. Either Kate or the murderer must have dropped it. Good-looking cop Nevin Riley, the participant with Josie i...more
A new, lighthearted mystery series, perfect for those busy weeks when I have only a few minutes here and there to sneak in a bit of time for myself. I am also a wannabe button collector, so I'm curious about Josie and her profession as a button shop owner. The story was organized, I appreciated the humour, liked the characters -- looking forward to meeting Stan, the ex-cop neighbour, again in the next book of the series -- and it left me satisfied, much the same way a romantic comedy does: you k...more
This was a very cute first in a new series cozy mystery. I had doubts about the legitimacy of a button shop till I learned about the royalty checks. At least the ex in this series isn't a cheater.
The mystery was unraveled bit by bit and I didn't guess it right away. The reader learned right along with the main character. You could have guessed who but not why until almost the end of the book.
No sappy romance, no harsh expletives, and decently developed characters made for a good read. I recomme...more
The mystery was unraveled bit by bit and I didn't guess it right away. The reader learned right along with the main character. You could have guessed who but not why until almost the end of the book.
No sappy romance, no harsh expletives, and decently developed characters made for a good read. I recomme...more
My Grandma was a self-made seamstress of sorts. She sewed for me when I was little and there are many a distinct memories of searches for random paraphenalia, including buttons. Other than associating buttons with my Grandma - I know nothing of buttons. As part of this story-line, I learned a few names here and there.
Author does a good job of spreading the clues out. Nice poetic snippets in spots. She does a nice job desscribing characters, as one gets a distinct visual image. Easy read.
I unde...more
Author does a good job of spreading the clues out. Nice poetic snippets in spots. She does a nice job desscribing characters, as one gets a distinct visual image. Easy read.
I unde...more
Just not for me. I got grabbed by the cover and was hoping for a fun, light read during a period of high stress. Apparently it was too light. I had to quit after several chapters because I found the characters boring and I was dying, DYING for any sort of facts about button collecting. None came. That's my reward for browsing and impulse buys. I hate to quit a series #1, hoping it will improve, but when I started referring to it as "Butt Holed" in conversation with my husband, I knew I had to mo...more
Wow, this one took me a bit to get into, but I don't think that was the book's fault. Neat characters, neat plot, very low on the romance scale, but it really worked in the book, and lots of buttons, of course. I liked that the main character was well-rounded, and though I'm not really a button fan of any sort, I could "get" her feelings about buttons and what they meant to her, and I enjoyed that feeling. While I thought the mystery itself may have been a little on the weak side, at the end, I...more
First Line: Here's the thing about walking into your button shop at five in the morning and running smack into a hulk of a guy wearing a black ski mask: it tends to catch a girl a little off guard.
Josie Giancola has become one of the country's leading experts on buttons, and she is now the proud owner of the Button Box-- her very own shop in a Chicago brownstone. Josie's reputation has attracted the notice of one of the biggest stars in Hollywood because the diva wants one-of-a-kind buttons for...more
Josie Giancola has become one of the country's leading experts on buttons, and she is now the proud owner of the Button Box-- her very own shop in a Chicago brownstone. Josie's reputation has attracted the notice of one of the biggest stars in Hollywood because the diva wants one-of-a-kind buttons for...more
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Interesting mystery story, a button shop being the central character. Characters felt real, mystery was good and easy to read.
But I'm not sure how much mileage this author will get out of buttons. By the end of the story I had had enough of them. Not that she mentions them alot along the way, its just that unless you have an interest in button collecting, I'm not sure this series would hold up book after book.
On the fence whether I'll read the next or not.
But I'm not sure how much mileage this author will get out of buttons. By the end of the story I had had enough of them. Not that she mentions them alot along the way, its just that unless you have an interest in button collecting, I'm not sure this series would hold up book after book.
On the fence whether I'll read the next or not.
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whew! A friend sent this to me because she knows I often like humorous, cozy mysteries. By page 2 I could tell it was formulaic and derivative of the "smart-mouthed, clever single woman" ilk. But I do like buttons, so... I kept going. Three times I had to stop in something like disgust. There was not one character to like. I kept reading 'til the end, to add gravitas to the panning of this book and my urging you: do not waste time on it.
A cute story about a button expert who after a divorce, is ready to start over. She opens a Button Shop and immediately gets involved in murder. It's the buttons she is selling for a wedding dress that gets everything all mixed up. The story drops hints at a future romance for Josie with Homicide Detective Nevin Riley. I guess we'll have to read the next book to see if it's included in the next plot. A light read.
Sep 22, 2012
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I was excited for a new cozy to read. I thought I was safe with this one...... I refuse to read books that have to use swear words......I think this new series had promise but I won't be following this one.....why oh why does the author have to include foul language to tell a story???????
Now this is a 'nice' little murder mystery. A cute story set in the world of a somewhat amazingly naive niche retailer. The button descriptions were fun and I especially enjoyed the hand-carved wooden button tie-in. Several repeat players are set up nicely.
A fun read, great weekend material.
A fun read, great weekend material.
I love Casey Daniels, and this is yet another a.k.a for that author (Casey being another). I was NOT expecting her "Pepper Martin" books but I was looking for a similar voice in this series. I sort of got what I was looking for, but there were a lot of things that annoyed me about this book. For one, is Josie a native to Chicago? How did she become interested in buttons? How does she know Stan? How did she come to open a shop? There was a hint of "Plop. You're now in a story that you should know...more
When I'm too tired to think, I need a relaxing break armed with a cozy mystery. Kyle Logan's book "Button Holed" met my need. I enjoyed the main character Josie Giancola as well as the homicide detrective Nevin Riley. The unfortunate part was the the murderer was obvious from early on in the book.
I enjoyed this and look forward to more in the series, it had a bit of everything that's great in this type of mystery book: humor, romance, characters that are easily likeable and a great "who-done-it". Quick, easy read.
Sep 19, 2012
Kate Donnelly
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Easy read. Hard to imagine that a book could be about buttons. Logan does a 'nice' job of spinning a mystery around buttons. Her characters were like able. I would read another just to find out more about buttons and crime.
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