Customer Rating:
Review Summary: More of a peep than a scream
Review: I have to admit to being rather ambivalent about Jill Churchill's books at this point (this is the fifth I've read). They're definitely light and fluffy, but perhaps a bit too fluffy. And there is the irony that the main character, Jane, is supposed to be a "grammar buff", but the book itself had a few obvious grammatical mistakes (I should have written them down at the time, I can't remember them now!). The story was... okay... the writing was... okay. Nothing special, nothing awful - it's one of those books that if you read a few hundred books a year, it's worth giving a quick read. But if you read less than that, or if it's going to take you more than a day to read it, I wouldn't bother. There are far better mystery novels out there.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Love this series..but not this one....
Review: I love this Jane Jeffry Mysteries, but this one left me kind missing the mystery. I love reading how Jane and Shelley seem to always get involved in a mystery, but this time it seemed to swing more toward Jane's boyfriend, Mel VanDynem, who was the focus of the book and not the two of them. I felt there was too much 'fluff filler' about the whole catering thing. I had stopped reading the series a couple years ago, but thought I would give it another go with this book. Now, might be another few years before the next one....

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Disappointing--and bad grammar!
Review: I have read other Jill Churchill novels, and this one definitely is the worst. I would hazard to guess it is ghost-written by a very amateur writer. The detail about needlepoint and food, plus the extra characters who added nothing to the novel, just detracted from the story line. If these extraneous items were omitted, how much of the novel would be left? Characters seemed lacking in any dimensionality at all, with stilted conversation. Do these characters ever work at real jobs? Unbelievable! And to top it off, the stilted, incomplete sentences and bad grammar added to the choppiness of the dull conversation. Compared to other mystery novels, of which I read many, this seemed to be written at kindergarten level. Finally, the recommendations on the cover, which dared to compare this novel to Dame Agatha Christie, were insulting.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Enjoyable series entry
Review: Another fun and interesting visit with Jane and friends. And I'd like to remind some readers that not all mysteries are about murders.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Appalling
Review: I haven't words to say how much I hated this book. The writing is simply awful. It reads like it was written by a not-very-talented seventh grader. The plot is limp because the murder (which takes place in a theatre) takes a distant second place to the needlepoint lessons. There is absolutely no characterization - none. To call the characters cardboard would be a compliment. There isn't a bit of wit, grace, or elegance in this prose, and nothing interesting ever happens. I wasn't merely bored by this book, I was insulted. And there isn't enough money in the universe that would make me read anything else by this author.

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