Mark Pghfan’s Comments (group member since Mar 06, 2014)

Mark Pghfan’s comments from the The Parlor PI's group.

Too bad we are all scattered around the country. I'd like to cook/bake for you all!

I'm into the last section but not done yet. I have a habit of racing near the end of a book and then forgetting stuff. Should be done tonight.

As a baker, I would have knocked out the requisite number of cupcakes easily, and no box mix!

Lenk certainly sounds like a good choice--too good, I'm thinking. I wonder if it could be Monica's daughter? Framing her father, whom she disliked?

Totally confused. On chapter 30 and I hope to finish soon.

I'm just into this final section. I want to finish up soon. More reading on the horizon!

I'm at the point I think the Gas Station Guy might be it, as well. But we seem to be going from one person to another, so I'm not sure.

One other t any rhyme or reasonhing. Just on this site, in these comments, I will be typing away and suddenly the cursor moves up randomly, withou

There! See what it just did? Does that happen to any of you?

Enough mystery for me. At least to the point where I am not sure whom I should suspect!

In this section, we see Lucy being addressed specifically by who we assume is the arsonist, if not the murderer. But, we're really not sure about that at this point.

I was thinking of Doug as the arsonist, but now his own place is burned and apparently insufficient insurance.

Lucy calls in a State Police detective. I wonder how easy THAT is to do?

I've been working on the track of the arsonist and the murderer being different people. In chapter 16, Lucy meets Doug, the real estate agent, and we find out he is perhaps not doing too well. Right around the time we are also talking about insurance money, hmmmm. Then we find that Krissy, the girlfriend is adept at wiring, and perhaps writing incorrectly. I guess this is the point where we find too many too many suspects!

In no particular order:

I don't care for the baby stuff.
I think the arsonist and the murderer are the same or at least in cahoots.
Can't say who the guilty party is just yet. The doctor/husband seems too obvious. Ditto on his piece on the side. Perhaps the mother of the kid who gets picked on (some of you may not have "met" her just yet.

NicoleG: I found her the same way. She thinks she runs the town!

We find out fairly quickly about the first death. Very sad, in that both Lucy and Bill know her. At least one eccentric character in this small town, the crazy Miss Tilley!

I am cognizant of the need to get the book back to the library, and also not to go so slowly that I forget what it going on!

Tina, that is right, for T&T. Chapters 1-11 is about one third of the book, if that helps.

I'm up to chapter 7. Ready at any time.

She did in fact just rent the space and probably shouldn't have done any renovations. I'm assuming she left after the solution of the mystery, as she said she would.

Nicole, I think it may have been, but it is certainly not something we see often in our books with amateur detectives.

While the doctor was a pain, the policeman was unusually cooperative in working with Rachel. That seemed unusual.

What an interesting read, thanks for the link. Though MRR coined the phrase, it was not in this book.

I agree with Nichole that the book has a very present-day feel to it, baring a few lines. Certainly the intrepid female protagonist helps make it that way.

I will be happily in for Trick or Treat, but will sit out the side read this month. October is always busy for me and I think it will take all my efforts to keep on rack for the main read.

Me, too, Nicole. I inadvertently (I have no idea how) voted for Treat of Trick as a write in. Whoops! I fixed it. Vote is for Trick or Treat Murder.

Hello, all!

Here is the final section of our September discussion. Including spoilers, here.

Well, I have to say the book pretty well tied up most of the things I was wondering about, and there were a lot of them! , There have been a comment about MRR's books, that there is a strain of "if I had but known" in them. I'm not sure how obvious that is here, but I guess if we had known Alex's real identity, things might have been easier to figure out.

The heroine is certainly intrepid. She calls herself an old lady, and an old spinster from time to time, but there are certainly no flies on her. Spunky and intuitive.

My only criticism is that the book could probably have been 50 or so pages shorter. What do you think?