Hard Christmas (A Cat Marsala mystery)

by Barbara D'Amato | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0425154653 Global Overview for this book
Registered by loriped of Keizer, Oregon USA on 5/6/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by loriped from Keizer, Oregon USA on Sunday, May 6, 2007
"Chicago freelance reporter Cat Marsala (last seen in Hard Case) pilots her old Bronco up into rural Michigan and finds murder among the family about whom she'd chosen to write a wholesome puff piece about Christmas-tree farming. She spends Thanksgiving weekend with the DeGraafs, a clan whose patriarch crossed the ocean in 1847 and cleared his own fields. Anthony Award-winner D'Amato's gift is description?not just her evocation of the heady scents of trees and lakes, or the savory accounts of hearty Dutch meals, but also precise explanations of harvesting procedures and machinery, including the mechanical tree baler into which somebody feeds the farm's foreman, killing him. The DeGraafs, it turns out, have secrets to protect, and suddenly Cat's looking into events more tangled than spruce roots. Although all the clues are meticulously in place, the crimes seem basically inconsistent with the murderer's character as it has been developed. Despite its disappointing ending, however, this effort rides far on the pleasures of Cat's company?and on her appealing, often funny, first-person voice.
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Saving for my Holiday Mystery Bookbox.

Journal Entry 2 by loriped from Keizer, Oregon USA on Wednesday, July 25, 2007
This book is traveling in the Holiday Mystery Bookbox. Happy travels.

Journal Entry 3 by mssaver from Chicago, Illinois USA on Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Removed from LoriPed's Holiday Mystery BookBox (Aha! This one was still in there too!)

Journal Entry 4 by mssaver at Chicago, Illinois USA on Friday, October 22, 2010
Interesting book!

Journal Entry 5 by loriped at Keizer, Oregon USA on Friday, December 24, 2010
Received home in my Shrinking Christmas Box. Thank you so much for participating.

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