- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Scribner; 1st ed edition (15 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743249518
- ISBN-13: 978-1419356841
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,609,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Heavily Padded Who's-Gonna-Do-It
30 Dec 2005
Format:Hardcover
As a mystery lover, print collector, and adoptive mom, I picked up this book with high hopes. Unfortunately, it's a very thin mystery heavily padded with middlebrow arcana about prints, the protagonist's endless should-I-or-shouldn't-I-adopt musings, and makeweight of end-of-term professorial minutiae. B-o-r-i-n-g. The most dramatic event in the book features the protagonist's irritation at another single (white, healthy) female wanting to adopt a (white, healthy) female infant, rather than enthusiastically signing up for older, abused children of a different ethnicity. Instead of suggesting the other woman go to Eastern Europe for such a child, the protagonist sneers at her for not signing up to sainthood. By the time the book finally reaches its climax, there is a gymnasium full of people who could commit the crime ... well, sort of, if you stretch things and one of them is nuts ... But no character development, no unexpected twists or turns, and a lot of lectures on prints and the nature (per the author, one presumes) of adoption.
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Best yet in Lea Wait's Shadows series!
19 July 2005
Format:Hardcover
I've enjoyed all of Lea Wait's Shadows Antique Print Mysteries -- what's not to like? antiques, mystery, a little atmosphere and romance -- but this one was special. Main character Maggie Summer is thinking of adopting an older child, and agrees to run an antique show as an adoption agency benefit. Then an adoptive mother (of 11!) is shot; one of her sons disappears; and a lot of questions are raised about inter-cultural and inter-racial adoption. I'd never thought about adoption as a controversial issue; for some people it clearly is. And Wait gives us a great mystery as well as some fascinating information -- as she always does. (Plus, there IS an antique show, and many of Maggie's associates and friends from previous books. I love Gussie and Will and Ben!) Highly recommended.
EDUCATIONAL /PRINTS
29 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
HAVE THREE OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES.
IF YOU ENJOY FLEA MARKETS AND CRAFT SHOWS AND ALSO AN EDUCATION ON PRINTS ON EVERY CHAPTER PAGE
WITH A CRIME IN EACH STORY,. YOU WILL ENJOY THE BOOKS.
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IF YOU ENJOY FLEA MARKETS AND CRAFT SHOWS AND ALSO AN EDUCATION ON PRINTS ON EVERY CHAPTER PAGE
WITH A CRIME IN EACH STORY,. YOU WILL ENJOY THE BOOKS.
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