Daisy Darker in On The Same Page

Jul 05, 2023 Shá rated it it was ok

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'll preface this with I like Alice Feeney. She isn't the best but there are good twists and her work stays mostly engaging. So, super fans shouldn't continue reading.

You were warned.

Wth did I just read????? There are more plot holes in this book than pages! 😤

About the only positive (if it even is one) is that I did not guess who ONE of the killers would be but only because of how absurd it would have been, and turned out to be, with Trixie. This was like the final episode of GoT. Like, Trixie ...more

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May 03, 2024 Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ rated it it was amazing

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This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and I must say she is a master (0r is the proper term mistress) of locked room mysteries. Daisy is the youngest sister of a dysfunctional family. Rose is the oldest, a veterinarian, Lily is unemployed and milking the (British) unemployment system and Daisy does volunteer work. Nancy and Frank, their parents are divorced and tolerate each other. Nana, the matriarch of the family lives on an Island in the Atlantic Ocean in a house named Seaglass. Na This is the second Alice Feeney book I have read and I must say she is a master (0r is the proper term mistress) of locked room mysteries. Daisy is the youngest sister of a dysfunctional family. Rose is the oldest, a veterinarian, Lily is unemployed and milking the (British) unemployment system and Daisy does volunteer work. Nancy and Frank, their parents are divorced and tolerate each other. Nana, the matriarch of the family lives on an Island in the Atlantic Ocean in a house named Seaglass. Nana had her fortune told long ago by a Palm Reader in Land's End, so she is expecting to die on her 80th birthday. Trixie is Lily's fifteen-year-old daughter and is a lot nicer than her mother is or is she?
Daisy "was born with a broken heart" is how the novel begins, her family was going to let her die, but the midwife had other plans. Her mother didn't want her, she was hoping for a son after two daughters. She became the least favorite child. She died again on her fifth birthday, trying to swim to America, but her sister Rose performed CPR on her. She was the broken child no one thought that she would live beyond the age of fifteen.
The night before Nana's 80th birthday, they gather at the house for the family reunion, and then one by one the family members are murdered. Nana is expecting it, but what about the rest of them? Nana had made her money by illustrating children's books and then she wrote her own about Daisy. The family all want her money because, besides Rose and Frank, none of them worked, they just sponged off Nana. We wouldn't be complete without the lights going out and finding dead bodies. So, first, Nana's head is bashed in, Frank is poisoned, and Trixie is found with Nana and Frank in the cupboard, left for dead, she had blood between her toes, possibly from an insulin injection. Lily is found poisoned by her perfume Poison and Trixie shoots Rose. But as far as Daisy is concerned, Triex told her that she could not kill her because she was already dead. Conner and her sisters killed her when she was thirteen by throwing her off a cliff because they thought that she had died when Conner hit her with his car. I was wondering if Daisy was dead for this story just by the way that no one seems to notice her. Trixie also had the same heart condition as Daisy, but had the surgery that she never did, to fix her heart.

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Mar 15, 2023 Camilla rated it it was ok

1.5 stars
Considering that Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None is one of my favorite mysteries of all time, I am so disappointed that I didn't enjoy this. I was excited to pick this up. I generally like Alice Feeney's work. But this was excruciating to get through. The pacing is a mess and I was bored most of the time. All the characters are unlikeable and selfish. (view spoiler) ...more

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