Combo - Review: Leslie Meier

Title: Wedding Day Murder
Author: Leslie Meier
Publisher: Kensington Mystery
Copyright Date: 2001
ISBN: 1575667347
Pages: 228 + untitled 5-page Short Story (Lucy remembers and tells daughter Zoe about her wedding day)
Series: 8th book in the Lucy Stone Mystery series
Where I got this book: Checked out from Library
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Title: Birthday Party Murder
Author: Leslie Meier
Publisher: Kensington
Copyright Date: 2002
ISBN: 1575668327
Pages: 256
Series: 9th book in the Lucy Stone Mystery series
Where I got this book: Checked out from Library
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Title: Father's Day Murder
Author: Leslie Meier
Publisher: Kensington
Copyright Date: 2003
ISBN: 1575668343
Pages: 234
Series: 10th book in the Lucy Stone Mystery series
Where I got this book: Checked out from Library
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Comments:

Sometimes, while I read these, I'd find myself irritated with Lucy. Other times, I was more annoyed with various members of Lucy's family. And then there were times when I was irritated with other characters. I guess the best way to look at this is Who isn't sometimes irritated with the people around them? — whether they be family, friends, neighbors... I think as Leslie Meier has continued to write, she found a way to capture the good parts of people as well as those irritating parts.

So while I don't love this series, I'll keep reading it. Because I like seeing how Tinker's Cove and Lucy Stone's family are coming along. And because I'm interested in following along with an amateur sleuth who has the unlikely tendency of stumbling across (and getting mixed up in) murder and mayhem... while reminding myself about the reality of human foibles.