Book Review: Homicide for the Holidays

Reviewed By: Webspinner - RAM

Homicide for the Holidays     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Jane Rubino
Class/Genre:   Mystery   [Short Stories]
Series: Cat Austen # 5
Worldwide, 2000, $6.99, 506 pp.

Three stories, one book. I bought it specifically for Fruitcake, because it was the ONE book missing from my Jane Rubino collection. Death of a DJ is out in paperback. Grab this one while you can! It may be the only chance you get, publishers being what they are . . .

5 paws -- Fruitcake, by Jane Rubino: I wasn't disappointed. Fruitcake is far and away worth the cost of the book, all by itself! The second in the Cat Austen series, it is fast paced and delightfully funny.

4 paws -- Milwaukee Winters Can Be Murder, by Kathleen Anne Barrett: An interesting story, and my first by this author. Barrett has an interesting amateur sleuth tale. I knew "who-done-it", but that didn't detract from my enjoyment of the story in the least.

3 1/2 -- A Perfect Time For Murder, by Fred Hunter: Another new author for me, and one I've been intending to pick up for a long time. This is a short story, that for me, introduced characters I'd like to get to know better. Thank you, Fred!

Make sure you pick it up.

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