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Decked with Folly (Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery #17)
Make room for murder with all the trimmings in the latest of the Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery series.
It's the holiday season and the Pennyfoot staff is brimming with anticipation. The scents of the season overflow from the kitchen and the country club's halls are decorated with festive displays thanks to Cecily's dear friend Madeline. But when one of Cecily's candle...more
It's the holiday season and the Pennyfoot staff is brimming with anticipation. The scents of the season overflow from the kitchen and the country club's halls are decorated with festive displays thanks to Cecily's dear friend Madeline. But when one of Cecily's candle...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
November 3rd 2009
by Berkley Trade
(first published October 14th 2009)
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It's Christmas time at Pennyfoot. Will this be the year with no problems? I doubt it! There's another holiday murder at the country club but this time it is a former employee who is the father of another's employees children. Who has a reason to kill Ian? Thankfully, the constable had to leave to spend time with his family for the holiday so Cecily has taken it upon herself to solve the mystery.
I read this book for my neighborhood book club. It was very interesting to me. We w...more
I read this book for my neighborhood book club. It was very interesting to me. We w...more
Entertaining holiday cozy mystery set in the quaint Pennyfoot Hotel on the southeast coast of England. Manager Cecily Baxter hopes for a murder-free Christmas but, alas, the curse continues when a body is discovered in the duck pond. Cecily tries to simultaneously investigate, protect her staff, appease her husband, and run a country club. Suspects abound and, though the culprit is not much of a surprise, fun characters and upstairs/downstairs relations provide a light mystery, perfect for th...more
I'm not typically into historicals except for a few series and had never read any of these before but the Christmas season inspired me so I got this book. It was good and I like the setting. I'm not certain I like the couples in the book, Cecily and Baxter and the Dr. and his wife. Maybe I'd understand better if I'd read the series and seen character development. As it is, I just didn't think they were that great as couples. But overall, it was a good read.
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Not a bad cozy mystery. I like the idea of a hotel setting although I think the author could have done a little more in terms of the plot. Would have liked a little more action - most of the time Cecily was just questioning everyone who was suspect. Did like the holiday theme and it does work well at the Pennyfoot Hotel. Also liked the setting and period - England post-Victorian era just after the turn of the century. A nice holiday read.
The Pennyfoot Hotel series is an easy-read mixture of historical fiction and mystery. The setting is Christmas time in post-victorian England - a setting which allows me to escape the 21st century and its heat. This series is unnumbered, but is best read beginning with No Clue At the Inn...Brought me to the conclusion with 2 possible suspects left.
If you're looking for a classic whodunnit that'll get you in the Christmas spirit - this one's for you. Decked with Folly is my first Pennyfoot mystery, and it certainly will not be my last! Check out my review here: http://loonachicklit.wordpress.com/
This is one of the better Pennyfoot mysteries. I liked how Gertie came across as a main character rather than a secondary one. I normally don't like it when a writer switches point of view, but it works for this series.
Picked this book up by mistake at the library and I'm really glad I did. Can't wait to read the rest of the series.
Read like one of the first 'grown up' books I read when I was a child- not very taxing on the brain.
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A nice light and easy read, which is exactly what I wanted. :)
Pennyfoot hotel mysteries are nice light read!
It was fun.
Light, fun.
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Doreen Roberts Hight grew up in London, England, and at a very early age began telling stories to her school friends during the London Blitz of WW II while huddling in bomb shelters. Kate moved to the U.S. in the early sixties, and had passed her 50th birthday when she published her first book. Since then Kate has written over fifty romance and mystery novels. She has ...more
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Doreen Roberts Hight grew up in London, England, and at a very early age began telling stories to her school friends during the London Blitz of WW II while huddling in bomb shelters. Kate moved to the U.S. in the early sixties, and had passed her 50th birthday when she published her first book. Since then Kate has written over fifty romance and mystery novels. She has ...more
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