Genre: Mystery
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN #: 9780451218773
Signet Mystery
233 Pages
Various Prices Amazon
June 6, 2006
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Jennifer is struggling to keep Custom Card Creations open for business, so her aunt Lillian snags her a delightful (and cheaper) apartment by the lake. Then Jennifer hears that the apartment is haunted by the ghost of its last occupant - who doesn't like to share. Meanwhile, she also has to put up with the unwanted advances of her downstairs neighbor, her ex-fiancé, and a drunken deputy.
Things only get worse when a tragic accident kills Maggie Blake, one of Jennifer's most beloved card club members. Then Jennifer receives a handcrafted card from Maggie. Written before she died, it warns that someone is trying to murder her. No one is above suspicion, not even the card club. Jennifer must investigate before she loses another good customer to more grim tidings.
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It's rare that I won't finish a book, no matter how bad it is. But this one is truly awful. I began reading it because of the first paragraph which reads that a ghost was trying to kill the protagonist. I should have stopped there. Unfortunately, this book is truly awful.
Jennifer Shane is annoying, self-centered, and obnoxious. She treats men like dirt but for some strange reason she's so attractive to them they're falling over their feet to get to her anyway. (She has a guy in love with her but finds him annoying because (gasp) he wants to spend time with her). Are there no other single - nice - women in this town?
Her aunt Lillian steamrolls over her every chance she gets - which explains why Jennifer's brother doesn't like her much; and I'm also surprised she doesn't weigh a ton considering she eats nothing but take-out and fast food and never works out - she doesn't even take walks and complains when her aunt wants to take one! This woman needs to learn to cook.
So a friend of hers dies and her brother - the police chief - tells her about it right after the accident. Shouldn't he be trying to find family to notify first? Nothing like not following protocol. But when she shows her brother a card that Maggie sent her - one that states someone was trying to kill her, he blows her off. He says it was obvious it was an accident. Really? He's not even going to look closer at the 'accident' to see if something was off? He's not a very good cop.
But what got me was the fact that she moves into an apartment with a ghost (no spoiler, it's in the blurb) and the day she moves in she leaves her two cats alone in the place while she goes to clean her old apartment. For hours. And is surprised when she returns late at night and her cats are in their carriers and won't come out. Honestly? Would it be that much trouble to have taken them with? Sorry, but this irritated me.
At this point, I was too frustrated to finish the rest of the book. I have better books to read than waste my time with this series. No wonder it was canceled after the requisite three books.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Greetings-Elizabeth-6-Jun-2006-Paperback/dp/B013J96WJG/ref
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