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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the seventh book in the Scrapbooking Mystery series by Laura Childs.
Carmela Bertrand is the owner of a little scrapbooking store in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Carmela's business is blooming and she is just beginning to get some order back into her chaotic life, now that she is finally divorcing her annoying husband Shamus and is starting a new relationship with the caring but a bit overprotective Detective Edgar Babcock. Creative Carmela and her best friend and Voodoo store owner, Ava are super busy converting Medusa Manor, into a haunted house attraction. When the mansion's owner Melody is murdered, Carmela and Ava decide to help Melody's husband, Garth clear his name, so they begin to investigate the case.
This is a well written mystery, with well developed and likable characters, fascinating and gripping plot, great descriptions of New Orleans and fantastic atmosphere. However, although I liked the book, Laura Childs is beginning to be a little repetitive with her Scrapbooking Mysteries. Although reading this series, at first I could not relate to the New Orleans lifestyle and the characters somehow didn't seem real to me, gradually they grew on me and now I am really looking forward to the next book in the series, Fiber & Brimstone (Scrapbooking Mystery).
Apart from the great mystery plot, as this is a Scrapbooking Mystery there are a lot of Scrapbooking trivia; information about various techniques and materials, decoration ideas and various crafting ideas, all these weaved into the story. Also, there are very detailed descriptions of the mouth-watering dishes prepared by Carmela and her friends and there are recipes at the end of the book for some of these great dishes. In addition to the recipes, there are interesting and useful Scrapbook, Stamping, and Craft Tips from Laura Childs.
The Favorite New Orleans Recipes include "Andouille Sausage Gumbo", "Mystery Muffins", "Brown Sugar and Sour Cream Butter", "Carmela's Cocoa Loco Pie", "Parmesan Shrimp Bake", "Monkey Bread", "Southern Coffee Cookies", "Chicken Piccata", "New Orleans Roast Beef Po Boy", "Deep-Fried Strawberries", and "Frozen Daiquiri".
Carmela Bertrand is the owner of a little scrapbooking store in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Carmela's business is blooming and she is just beginning to get some order back into her chaotic life, now that she is finally divorcing her annoying husband Shamus and is starting a new relationship with the caring but a bit overprotective Detective Edgar Babcock. Creative Carmela and her best friend and Voodoo store owner, Ava are super busy converting Medusa Manor, into a haunted house attraction. When the mansion's owner Melody is murdered, Carmela and Ava decide to help Melody's husband, Garth clear his name, so they begin to investigate the case.
This is a well written mystery, with well developed and likable characters, fascinating and gripping plot, great descriptions of New Orleans and fantastic atmosphere. However, although I liked the book, Laura Childs is beginning to be a little repetitive with her Scrapbooking Mysteries. Although reading this series, at first I could not relate to the New Orleans lifestyle and the characters somehow didn't seem real to me, gradually they grew on me and now I am really looking forward to the next book in the series, Fiber & Brimstone (Scrapbooking Mystery).
Apart from the great mystery plot, as this is a Scrapbooking Mystery there are a lot of Scrapbooking trivia; information about various techniques and materials, decoration ideas and various crafting ideas, all these weaved into the story. Also, there are very detailed descriptions of the mouth-watering dishes prepared by Carmela and her friends and there are recipes at the end of the book for some of these great dishes. In addition to the recipes, there are interesting and useful Scrapbook, Stamping, and Craft Tips from Laura Childs.
The Favorite New Orleans Recipes include "Andouille Sausage Gumbo", "Mystery Muffins", "Brown Sugar and Sour Cream Butter", "Carmela's Cocoa Loco Pie", "Parmesan Shrimp Bake", "Monkey Bread", "Southern Coffee Cookies", "Chicken Piccata", "New Orleans Roast Beef Po Boy", "Deep-Fried Strawberries", and "Frozen Daiquiri".
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Another fantastic book,I find that I am running out of what to say when we continually get books of the fascination of the Scrapbook Mystery Series. They are so good & again they are hard to put down once you start reading them.
I hope everyone enjoyes them as much as I do, I know my friends are pleased that I have found another great author.
I hope everyone enjoyes them as much as I do, I know my friends are pleased that I have found another great author.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
terrific amateur sleuth
10 Oct 2009
Format:Hardcover
After three long years wrangling over a divorce, Carmela Bertrand and Seamus are near a settlement if his sister Gloria minds her business. In the meantime, four years since Katrina, Carmela, owner of Memory Mine scrapbook shop, is finally finding her customers coming back and making money. Her friend, Melody Mayfeldt is up against a deadline to convert an old mansion Medusa Manor into a haunted house that will attract customers from all over the country. When Carmela and her friend Ava Gruiex, owner of Juju Voodoo, are near Medusa Manor, they hear a loud explosion and see a fiery body flying through a window.
The victim is Melody; a shaken Carmela and Ava are accosted by Melody's silent partner Olivia Wainwright who pleads with them to get the haunted house ready in time for the horror convection DiscordaCon. Carmela's significant other Detective Edgar Babcock tells her that Melody's husband Garth, owner of the Fire and Ice high end jewelry store, is the prime suspect; as the shop is bankrupt and he recently took out insurance on his late wife. Carmela and the cops have other suspects, but as each investigates separately increasingly Garth looks guilty.
New Orleans is still trying to return to normal as the Big Easy, but there is plenty left to do. Although fans will have to accept Carmela's need to sleuth, as part of her being a strong independent person who refuses to let neither Seamus nor Edgar bully her; ironically their motives on the altruism scale are wide apart. Fast-paced with plenty of action, TRAGIC MAGIC is terrific scrapbooking amateur sleuth mystery in which the audience will enjoy stomping through the mud while trying to determine who killed Melody before the heroine can.
Harriet Klausner
The victim is Melody; a shaken Carmela and Ava are accosted by Melody's silent partner Olivia Wainwright who pleads with them to get the haunted house ready in time for the horror convection DiscordaCon. Carmela's significant other Detective Edgar Babcock tells her that Melody's husband Garth, owner of the Fire and Ice high end jewelry store, is the prime suspect; as the shop is bankrupt and he recently took out insurance on his late wife. Carmela and the cops have other suspects, but as each investigates separately increasingly Garth looks guilty.
New Orleans is still trying to return to normal as the Big Easy, but there is plenty left to do. Although fans will have to accept Carmela's need to sleuth, as part of her being a strong independent person who refuses to let neither Seamus nor Edgar bully her; ironically their motives on the altruism scale are wide apart. Fast-paced with plenty of action, TRAGIC MAGIC is terrific scrapbooking amateur sleuth mystery in which the audience will enjoy stomping through the mud while trying to determine who killed Melody before the heroine can.
Harriet Klausner
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful cozy to read
18 Oct 2009
Format:Hardcover
I really enjoyed this mystery cozy. The heroines,
Carmela and Ava, make this book an enjoyable read for me.
Those two ladies know how to find trouble.
Visiting graveyards, designing haunted houses, finding dead bodies,
are all in a "days work" for them.
The location, New Orleans, is perfect for this mystery.
Bring out your Mari Gras beads, and sit back for an enjoyable cozy read.
The recipes and scrapbook ideas are wonderful too.
Carmela and Ava, make this book an enjoyable read for me.
Those two ladies know how to find trouble.
Visiting graveyards, designing haunted houses, finding dead bodies,
are all in a "days work" for them.
The location, New Orleans, is perfect for this mystery.
Bring out your Mari Gras beads, and sit back for an enjoyable cozy read.
The recipes and scrapbook ideas are wonderful too.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A vivid mystery perfect for any serious mystery collection
20 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover
TRAGIC MAGIC is a scrapbooking mystery set in New Orleans and revolving around Carmella, owner of Memory Mine scrapbooking store, and her best friend Ava, owner of Juju Voodoo. Their joint project converting an old mansion into a haunted house backfires when the haunted house becomes too authentic and death walks among them in this vivid mystery perfect for any serious mystery collection.
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