When sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons cater a canine birthday celebration for Trudy, the pet pug of imperious toy company owner Annabel Colbert, th...
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Jan 29, 2011
April
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Birthday parties for pugs, murder and mayhem collide in Isis Crawford’s sixth installment in her series “A Mystery with Recipes”, A Catered Birthday Party.
Bernie and Libby Simmons own a delightful and well-known catering company and shop named A Little Taste of Heaven. As sisters, they are as different as night an day, as business partners, they work together to please their customers. One such customer, Annabel Colbert, a wealthy and not-so-respected business woman asks the sisters More...
Bernie and Libby Simmons own a delightful and well-known catering company and shop named A Little Taste of Heaven. As sisters, they are as different as night an day, as business partners, they work together to please their customers. One such customer, Annabel Colbert, a wealthy and not-so-respected business woman asks the sisters More...
Mar 16, 2010
I can't do it. It's my fault entirely, not the author. But on page 3 we get this between the two main characters:
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Libby kept chopping. "I don't like pugs," she informed Bernie.I picked up this book specifically because there was a pug on the cover. Don't give me the pug as a selling point and then have your two main characters dislike pugs, Kensington Publishing.
"Neither do I," Bernie said as she snagged a piece of carrot off the table. "They wheeze."
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Aug 05, 2010
Laura
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For this series, this is actually pretty good. There were a few unforeseen plot twists, the characters are getting better developed and the sisters are bickering a lot less. I also like Brandon a lot better than Rob, and was surprised to find out that the sisters are younger than I thought (Bernie is 33; Libby a few years older). Anyway, since this is the most recent installment in the series, that bodes well for the next book - at least the writing is improving as the series progresses. She
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Dec 20, 2010
Debbie
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This story involves a catered birthday party for a dog, Trudy. Of course, the owner of Trudy drinks a special wine and then states that she has been poisoned. The police do not see murder, just a heart attack. Libby and Bernie promise the dying Annabel that they will find the murderer. In this caper, Sean Simmons, father of Libby and Bernie, leads the investigation and discovers the killer. I especially liked same of the new characters: Samantha and Trudy. Crawford likes to show that ange
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Dec 01, 2009
Susan
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Sisters Bernie and Libby are asked to cater a birthday party at the home of the town's richest woman Annabel--for her pug, Trudy. Annabel takes a gulp of wine, declares that she's been poisoned, and won't let the sisters call for help until they promise to find her murderer. Then, much to everyone's surprise, she dies. The police say it's an accident, but Bernie and Libby, and their retired police chief father Sean, aren't so sure. What seems indisputable is that the only person who really lo
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Feb 04, 2010
Deb
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I like this series and was really excited when this one was about dogs! The mystery was good, the characters relatable but I didn't care for how the author made all the dog obsessed people seem quite insane (well some of us are but not all!). Also when they gave the pug a sip of champaign at the end of the book I wanted to shake the author. Alcohol is poison to dogs.
Jan 23, 2011
Amelia-Irene
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A birthday party for a little dog, what can go wrong? Plenty when her owner is murdered and the dogs are the well behaved attenders of the party. To find out how the murder came about Bernie & Libby have to find out about the deceased's past to understand some of the present.
Apr 11, 2011
Susan
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I was impressed that I didn't figure out who did it early. I think all the different characters got me a bit confused, but I did love that there were dogs involved in the storyline. I wasn't offended by Bernie and Libby may not be fans of Pugs, but that is why there are a bunch off different kinds of dogs and pets. I was also happy to see that Sean, the father, is starting to stretch himself.
Mar 16, 2010
Peggy
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intersting style of writing--kind of catty --assumes you know about the characters so I guess I need to read earlier books to understand more of the dynamics. This book really doesn't stand alone very well.
Nov 25, 2009
Laura
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This was one of her best! I am happy the girls, Bernie + Libby's father is out of the wheelchair...makes for a happier Dad/Sean!
Jul 01, 2010
Cribquilter
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I kept falling asleep with this book. It was very boring. I did not enjoy it at all.
Jul 04, 2010
I just couldn't finish this one. I tried, I really did try, but gave up after a couple of chapters.
There was just something about two female cooks trying to solve a murder mystery that struck me as unbelievably absurd.
There was just something about two female cooks trying to solve a murder mystery that struck me as unbelievably absurd.
Oct 16, 2011
Frankie
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Enjoyable. There were a lot of characters in this one -- sometimes I had a hard time keeping them all straight.
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