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Murder for Choir (Glee Club #1)
by
Joelle Charbonneau (Goodreads Author)
Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cutthroat competition of the Prospect Glen High School show choir. Coaching these championship-hungry students may be her toughest gig yet...
Especially when her best young male singer is suspected of killing the arrogant coach of Prospect Glen's fiercest rival. To clear his name, Paige will...more
Especially when her best young male singer is suspected of killing the arrogant coach of Prospect Glen's fiercest rival. To clear his name, Paige will...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
July 3rd 2012
by Berkley
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I'm going to divulge a little secret quickly, before I get to the review. I'm a total music junkie. I need to have some sort of music playing at all times, whether it's country, metal, rap, whatever. I listen to it and love it all. But my even bigger secret is that I love musicals. Go ahead, laugh. I can recite, word for word, Grease from beginning to end. Hairspray? Don't even get me started. When I found out my husband had never seen either of those, I almost went into shock and immediately pu...more
The first in a brand new series, Murder For Choir is not only a fantastically fun plot, but it will also be a fan favorite. Seeing as that the TV show, Glee, is right up everyone’s alley right now, writing a new series that centers on a teacher and their students is almost like reading about old friends.
Paige Marshall is an opera singer but is having a difficult time trying to land a singing role at the moment. Staying with her Aunt Millie who’s a Mary Kay representative, Paige accepts a job as...more
Paige Marshall is an opera singer but is having a difficult time trying to land a singing role at the moment. Staying with her Aunt Millie who’s a Mary Kay representative, Paige accepts a job as...more
New show choir director Paige Marshall has no idea what she is walking into when she works the summer choir camp. Paige, a struggling opera singer, is not well received by the choir students at Prospect Glen High. But before she has too much time to worry about it, she finds rival choir director, Greg Lucas, dead in the auditorium.
The main suspect is one of Paige's most promising male vocal students but she doesn't believe he committed the crime and sets out to clear his name. She begins puttin...more
The main suspect is one of Paige's most promising male vocal students but she doesn't believe he committed the crime and sets out to clear his name. She begins puttin...more
Paige Marshall has taken a job as a Glee Club Coach at Prospect Glen High School as she waits for the next big break to come along in her opera career. She thought professional auditions were rough but she quickly learns how cutthroat competition is for high school show choirs. These students expect to win a championship and don't believe Paige is the right coach for the job.
Finding a rival coach dead does not help matters. Then one of her students becomes the prime suspect in the investigation....more
Finding a rival coach dead does not help matters. Then one of her students becomes the prime suspect in the investigation....more
Paige is stuck in a job she hates, with high school students who aren't too fond of her, when things get even worse. A colleague is found dead, and suddenly everyone is a suspect.
I haven't read many of this type of mystery, but I've enjoyed all that I've read. I am wondering, though, if there is some formula somewhere that requires a flaky old aunt/grandmother to encourage the heroine to risk her fool neck by trying to solve a murder? At least in this book, the aunt was less annoying than in som...more
I haven't read many of this type of mystery, but I've enjoyed all that I've read. I am wondering, though, if there is some formula somewhere that requires a flaky old aunt/grandmother to encourage the heroine to risk her fool neck by trying to solve a murder? At least in this book, the aunt was less annoying than in som...more
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This was a fun read! It reminded me alot of the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series. Although not quite as outrageously funny, it still was quite fun.
First off, Paige is more than a little nosy and a certified go getter. She doesn't like to sit on her duff. At the same time she was endearingly not perfect. She's very easy to relate to since she is a very realistic character. No perfect makeup for her! She's even scared of her aunt's dog, Killer. She doesn't become perfect by the end of the boo...more
First off, Paige is more than a little nosy and a certified go getter. She doesn't like to sit on her duff. At the same time she was endearingly not perfect. She's very easy to relate to since she is a very realistic character. No perfect makeup for her! She's even scared of her aunt's dog, Killer. She doesn't become perfect by the end of the boo...more
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Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cutthroat competition of the Prospect Glen High School show choir. Coaching these championship-hungry students may be her toughest gig yet...
Especially when her best young male singer is suspected of killing the arrogant coach of Prospect Glen's fiercest rival. To clear his name, Paige will have to sort through a chorus of suspects, and go note-for-note with a killer who wants her out of the spotlight for good.
Lar...more
Especially when her best young male singer is suspected of killing the arrogant coach of Prospect Glen's fiercest rival. To clear his name, Paige will have to sort through a chorus of suspects, and go note-for-note with a killer who wants her out of the spotlight for good.
Lar...more
Murder for Choir by Joelle Charbonneau
Release Date: July 3rd, 2012
Publisher: Berkley Prime (Penguin)
Page Count: 294
Source: From JKS Communications, as part of the Murder for Choir book tour
This glee competition is killer...
Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cutthroat competition of the Prospect Glen High School show choir. As their new coach, she's getting an icy reception from championship-hungry students who doubt she can take them to a first-pl...more
Release Date: July 3rd, 2012
Publisher: Berkley Prime (Penguin)
Page Count: 294
Source: From JKS Communications, as part of the Murder for Choir book tour
This glee competition is killer...
Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cutthroat competition of the Prospect Glen High School show choir. As their new coach, she's getting an icy reception from championship-hungry students who doubt she can take them to a first-pl...more
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The stage is set
This novel was a great read. It was enjoyable and entertaining and gripping and it was honestly just one book that I found myself really liking. It was easy to read and the tension and mystery built throughout it which helped to keep me really interested in what was going on. Joelle has a way with words and I am now really looking forward to carrying on this series and also reading more of her work. This is a nov...more
The stage is set
This novel was a great read. It was enjoyable and entertaining and gripping and it was honestly just one book that I found myself really liking. It was easy to read and the tension and mystery built throughout it which helped to keep me really interested in what was going on. Joelle has a way with words and I am now really looking forward to carrying on this series and also reading more of her work. This is a nov...more
First book in this series. Enjoyed reading it and even though it is about a show choir in high school there isn't a lot in this book about it, more about the mystery itself. I enjoyed the characters of Paige and her aunt. The author puts a some sarcastic humor to Paige's thoughts and I really enjoyed it. Even I ended up guessing the bad guy, it was more because I just picked a character and stuck with it as it wasn't easy to figure out for sure who did it. I had read one review that said they th...more
Ms. Charbonneau is a favorite author of mine to track. This new debut novel was very good and I really enjoyed it. A young Opera singer, Paige Marshall is living with her Aunt while trying to earn a living while awaiting being 'discovered.' The job is being an assistant coach of a school Show Choir.
On Paige's first day at rehearsal, she stumbles upon the dead body of a rival school's leader. To her shock, one of her students is the number one suspect. Paige just knows this is wrong and sets out...more
On Paige's first day at rehearsal, she stumbles upon the dead body of a rival school's leader. To her shock, one of her students is the number one suspect. Paige just knows this is wrong and sets out...more
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Murder For Choir is a cozy mystery that exceeded my expectations! I've never quite known what to think about mysteries; I love them but I always worry whether the facts and details will bore me or the suspense will just scare me to pieces. Fortunately, Joelle Charbonneau has captured my attention as a stellar author and made mystery one of my top favorite genres!
Paige Marshall is a career performer turned show choir teacher. She's the new director for Prospe...more
Murder For Choir is a cozy mystery that exceeded my expectations! I've never quite known what to think about mysteries; I love them but I always worry whether the facts and details will bore me or the suspense will just scare me to pieces. Fortunately, Joelle Charbonneau has captured my attention as a stellar author and made mystery one of my top favorite genres!
Paige Marshall is a career performer turned show choir teacher. She's the new director for Prospe...more
Paige can't get a job in opera or musical theater, so she's reduced to teaching a high school choir class while living with her wealthy aunt. How hard can it be? Well, the choir members are uber-competitive, one of their chief competitors is murdered (and Paige finds the body!), and her boss seems to see her as a possible murderer. Paige can return the compliment there, especially after she finds he's been dating the victim's ex-wife. Then there's the hunky cop who seems very much amused by her...more
What a fun cozy. I really liked the main character--not too crazy, not too cutesie, not too adventurous. She is a young and talented opera singer who has taken a job as show choir teacher "between performances." On her first day of show choir camp, a rival teacher gets murdered, so she becomes involved in the investigation. She is funny without being annoying, and her humor is fun without being overdone. I'll definitely read more by this author.
An example of her sense of humor about food: "After...more
An example of her sense of humor about food: "After...more
Ok, so I had no intention of reading this book since it screams "Glee Bandwagon" but a GR friend read it and liked it quite a bit, and since we have a lot of reading interests in common, I went ahead and bought it. Then it sat on my TBR for quite some time while I procrastinated picking it up. I've finally read it and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised! It was a very strong first-in-series.
What I didn't like (very short list):
What I didn't like (very short list):
Paige is a bit too much of a busybody throughout the book. Just...more
4.5 stars
I have three words for y'all: Show. Choir. Mystery. HOW MUCH COOLER CAN YOU GET? And with Murder for Choir, Joelle Charbonneau delivers one awesome mystery that will keep you trying to work out all the pieces until the last minute.
I love a good mystery. My obsession with mysteries began back when I cracked open my first Nancy Drew book and was further fueled by all the Trixie Belden books I read. Since then, I am always looking for the next mystery to read. And I definitely found it wit...more
I have three words for y'all: Show. Choir. Mystery. HOW MUCH COOLER CAN YOU GET? And with Murder for Choir, Joelle Charbonneau delivers one awesome mystery that will keep you trying to work out all the pieces until the last minute.
I love a good mystery. My obsession with mysteries began back when I cracked open my first Nancy Drew book and was further fueled by all the Trixie Belden books I read. Since then, I am always looking for the next mystery to read. And I definitely found it wit...more
Joelle Charbonneau is one of the brightest (and funniest!) of new mystery authors. She's often compared to Janet Evanovich for good reason. What makes this mystery series especially fun, is that the author is a real-life opera singer! Summer's comin' and you better have a good book in your travel bag - this is a winner!
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A well written cozy mystery that gets some direction from Glee. Set amid the trials and tribulations of show choir, Paige Marshall searches for a killer in a suburban Chicago high school. Spunky heroine drives the police up the wall. Isn't that always the way in this type of book.
I'm a HUGE Gleek so this was a really fun murder mystery for me to get in to. Seriously just imagine Rachel, Finn and the rest of the gang having to deal with a mysterious murder (a comical one). Awesome right?
Slow start, and didn't involve the show choir backdrop as much as I hoped, but once I got a good 75 pages in I got caught up in the mystery and had a good time. Not sure if I would read another in the series. But I did love the four taxidermy dogs.
I enjoyed the book. I wish there had been a little bit more "choiry" stuff and a little bit more background on the main character (family, college, etc.). I am looking forward to see how the romantic triangle pans out.
New series. Hits all the usual cozy tropes--eccentric relative, detective love interest, spunky heroine--well-clued, well-paced, likeable characters.
I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. The characters seemed fresh. And the book wasn't a Glee knockoff like I assumed it would be.
My favourite Joelle Charbonneau mystery yet. Funny and sexy and exciting. A great read!
I like the fact that the protagonist investigates the murder, as some cozies skimp on the investigation bit.
Fast and a whole lot of fun.
It's a great book if you are into choir and murder mysteries. It keeps you guessing until the very end (which is really the best compliment you can give). It's a great book that is hard to put down once you start. I tried several times, but couldn't because I got very invested in knowing what was going to happen next. I would personally love to see a sequel on this to see how some of the character relationships develop and to know how the choir does for the season.
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I am a storyteller at heart. I have performed in a variety of operas, musical theatre and children's theatre productions across the Chicagoland area.
While I'm happy to perform for an audience, I am equally delighted to teach private voice lessons and use my experience from the stage to create compelling characters on the page. I am the author of the Rebecca Robbins mystery series (Minotaur Books)...more
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While I'm happy to perform for an audience, I am equally delighted to teach private voice lessons and use my experience from the stage to create compelling characters on the page. I am the author of the Rebecca Robbins mystery series (Minotaur Books)...more
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