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

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

I wonder if the chief knew that the blood found had subsequently, but mysteriously, been cleaned up? Doesn't that sound like something that would convince him of foul play?

I'm well into part two and will start that soon.

I just finished this section. Though things have definitely happened, we still don't know Addie's secret. But there is a lot of investigation going on and Addie's friends are doing it. Add the chief STILL does not believe Addie's death was murder.

I'm going to cheat and start with the blurb from the book:

"Clare Harrigan and her girlfriends are delighted when their childhood friend, Addie Halls, returns to Amelia Bay. She’s left a hectic, but successful, career behind and is ready to embrace a calmer, new life. Addie slipped away under a dark cloud twenty years earlier. Unfortunately, not everyone celebrates her return to their charming town. Heart-breaking secrets have simmered for years beneath the surface of this quiet community, nestled along the shores of the magnificent Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. The secrets reach their boiling point and spill over. The result is death. Clare and her friends have to prove to the Chief of Police he has a murder on his hands and not, as he believes, an accident."

I am only about chapters in the book and Addie is indeed found dead. Clare thinks it must be a murder, as she feels Addie would never have gone out for a walk after dark. (After not seeing her for 20 years, how could she be positive about that?)

There is a secret about Addie which we do not yet know, but have received a hint or two. It seems to have involved a man who is now mayor, though it also may be related to an older couple, whom we meet in the first chapter.

Ready to start!

Thanks for the response! Will start soon!

I started reading last night, on my Amazon Fire. Problem is, I can't see how many chapters there are. If any of you have the book, can you please let me know where, chapter-wise, the one-third and two-thirds point of the book is? There is probably some setting which will enable me to find that, but I feel technologically unable to pursue that right now!

And now it's back. I have no idea what happened! Anyway, I've got it now. I can host if you like. (I have no idea what the book is like, but I'll step in on this one.) Give me a few days to get a bit into the book.

I thought for sure I saw this available on Amazon, but now I can't find it. Let me check the library.

I'm fine with this one.

I am also not too sure about others in the series. I did like the setting, though, and having an ex-policeman husband helped a good deal. I didn't see the ending coming, which is a good thing, though.

Went on hay rides. Once, some kids on the truck were playing with a liquid fluorescent stick, which ultimately broke and the liquid spilled on my pants. Hrrumph!

I'm inclined toward the Amelia Bay. Not really excited about young girl mysteries.

I finished last night (and the other book as well!) I can't say I figured anything out or even ID'd the culprit. Kind of a convoluted ending, though everything did make sense. And I never would have figured out what actually did make Gracie fall!

I'm leaning toward Cynthia now.

Still reading two books at once. I hope to finish this week. I was thinking a spectacular ending would be for David to have been pushed off the boat by Gracie, and she murdered by a trap David set up earlier for when she sang!

Hello, Dorian. A big golden age mystery buff myself. I've even taught a course called Golden Age Mystery Writers! And an Agatha specialist as well.

I'm a little past 50% through (thanks, Kindle, for the precise percentage!). They do seem to be stuck in investigation mode. Sir John has now officially asked Dorothy and Alan for help. Let's face it--he seems like the most likely culprit, though I can't figure out how.

I asked my friend who plays the violin whether they could be invisible. He agreed, not. I wonder though, whether there was something wrong with Delia's eyes, that she couldn't see them?

I'm just a few chapters into this section. Dorothy thinks the things Delia was swatting away were violin strings. Are they really that fine as to be invisible? I am seeing a friend Sunday who plays the violin in a local symphony--I'll ask him about that!

Sounds interesting, but this is a new book and will be pricey unless I can get it at the library.