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Murder in the Rough: A Sarah Deane Mystery (Sarah Deane Mysteries)
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Author: J. S. Borthwick
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Murder in the Rough: A Sarah Deane Mystery (Sarah Deane Mysteries) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312984533
ISBN: 0312984537
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2003-08-18
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312984533
ISBN: 0312984537
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2003-08-18
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
Editorial Review of Murder in the Rough: A Sarah Deane Mystery (Sarah Deane Mysteries)
After weeks of relentless rain and fog, summer graces the Maine coast. Sarah Deane wants only to help her in-laws adjust to living in Ocean Tide, an "architect-designed home-town community," and enjoy the warm weather before she returns to teaching in the fall. She absolutely does not want to become embroiled in another murder investigation. Even when police find the body of an 18 year-old on Ocean Tide's golf course, Sarah vows not to let it sidetrack her from an agenda of rest and relaxation. But after a frightened boy causes her to discover a second murder victim, her curiosity-and protective impulses toward a child who may have seen too much-overpower her better judgment. Tiptoeing into territory better left to the authorities, Sarah unearths disturbing family ties and a lethal secret hidden just beneath Ocean Tide's veneer of squeaky clean community values...
Customer Reviews of Murder in the Rough: A Sarah Deane Mystery (Sarah Deane Mysteries)
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Review Summary: MURDER IN THE ROUGH
Review: Did anyone else notice that the authour intermittently started calling Uncle Fergus, Uncle Felix about three quarters of the way through the book????? Sort of a mystery within a mystery???
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Murder and theft in Maine
Review: Sarah Deane's in-laws have just moved into Ocean Tide, an "architect-designed hometown community. It's almost summer and Sarah has just completed a substitute teaching job at a girls' boarding school in Massachusetts. This fall she will begin teaching English classes at Bowmouth College in Maine.
Her mother-in-law, Elspeth, has invited Sarah and Alex down for some family celebrations. The biggest is to include a 90th birthday party for Uncle Fergus and she's asked their help in planning it because she will be in Provence for part of June.
Then the body of an 18-year-old male is found at Ocean Tide, management is beside themselves. It turns out to be a son of Barbara Colley, one of Elspeth's neighbors. This son had taken off some time ago.
Then Sarah almost runs into a frightened boy near the golf course. She later discovers another body. This time it's a man.
Plus bikes and golf clubs are being stolen from residents. Can management keep their good image? Can Sarah concentrate on tutoring and family rather than getting involved in investigating? She tries, but she keeps getting pulled in like when she goes after another Colley son who appears to have taken off in a boat.
She often finds herself in sticky situations and the questions are piling up without a solution in site. Who is behind all this?
I love this series. They are fast, easy reads. I always look forward to spending time with Sarah and Alex. I recommend this book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A well-written cozy.
Review: Borthwick writes a great cozy, and her Sarah Deane mysteries are some of the best when I'm in the mood for this kind of book. I gave it three stars instead of four since this is not my favorite Sarah Deane (those would be Coup de Grace and Dolly Is Dead) and since it seemed like there were a number of small avoidable flaws in the book.
The biggest problem I had was with the large number of characters and the ridiculously high body count. I'm part of the school of thought that believes a good cozy should limit the corpses. The golf course in this book seems to have more dead people than live ones. It strained the imagination and I eventually found it irritating.
However, the book still gets you where it needs to go and it has its moments of laugh-out-loud funny. A good book by a good writer.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Light but pleasant mystery--good Maine atmosphere
Review: Recently retired from college life, John and Elspeth McKenzie move to a planned community in Maine where they can be near their son Alex and daughter in law Sarah. Neither counts on Sarah's uncanny ability to turn up bodies and, in fact, Sarah doesn't actually find the first body. Soon, however, she is involved, especially when Elspeth's expensive new bicycle is stolen and vanishes from the gated and guarded community.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Borthwick's Murder in the Rough
Review: I have enjoyed all of Borthwick's books since I ran across the first one shortly after its publication. And this latest one is an enjoyable read as we follow Sarah's good and evil twin journey. HOWEVER, this has to be one of the most slovenly-edited books I've ever read. Not only are there typos which a spellchecker couldn't possibly get (vice for voice)so some human intervention is needed, but Uncle Fergus occasionally becomes Uncle Felix. Not what one expects from a respectable publishing house! I do hope enough people complain that they haul up their socks and get down to business!
Review Summary: MURDER IN THE ROUGH
Review: Did anyone else notice that the authour intermittently started calling Uncle Fergus, Uncle Felix about three quarters of the way through the book????? Sort of a mystery within a mystery???
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Murder and theft in Maine
Review: Sarah Deane's in-laws have just moved into Ocean Tide, an "architect-designed hometown community. It's almost summer and Sarah has just completed a substitute teaching job at a girls' boarding school in Massachusetts. This fall she will begin teaching English classes at Bowmouth College in Maine.
Her mother-in-law, Elspeth, has invited Sarah and Alex down for some family celebrations. The biggest is to include a 90th birthday party for Uncle Fergus and she's asked their help in planning it because she will be in Provence for part of June.
Then the body of an 18-year-old male is found at Ocean Tide, management is beside themselves. It turns out to be a son of Barbara Colley, one of Elspeth's neighbors. This son had taken off some time ago.
Then Sarah almost runs into a frightened boy near the golf course. She later discovers another body. This time it's a man.
Plus bikes and golf clubs are being stolen from residents. Can management keep their good image? Can Sarah concentrate on tutoring and family rather than getting involved in investigating? She tries, but she keeps getting pulled in like when she goes after another Colley son who appears to have taken off in a boat.
She often finds herself in sticky situations and the questions are piling up without a solution in site. Who is behind all this?
I love this series. They are fast, easy reads. I always look forward to spending time with Sarah and Alex. I recommend this book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A well-written cozy.
Review: Borthwick writes a great cozy, and her Sarah Deane mysteries are some of the best when I'm in the mood for this kind of book. I gave it three stars instead of four since this is not my favorite Sarah Deane (those would be Coup de Grace and Dolly Is Dead) and since it seemed like there were a number of small avoidable flaws in the book.
The biggest problem I had was with the large number of characters and the ridiculously high body count. I'm part of the school of thought that believes a good cozy should limit the corpses. The golf course in this book seems to have more dead people than live ones. It strained the imagination and I eventually found it irritating.
However, the book still gets you where it needs to go and it has its moments of laugh-out-loud funny. A good book by a good writer.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Light but pleasant mystery--good Maine atmosphere
Review: Recently retired from college life, John and Elspeth McKenzie move to a planned community in Maine where they can be near their son Alex and daughter in law Sarah. Neither counts on Sarah's uncanny ability to turn up bodies and, in fact, Sarah doesn't actually find the first body. Soon, however, she is involved, especially when Elspeth's expensive new bicycle is stolen and vanishes from the gated and guarded community.
More murders lead to police mystification and Sarah's increasingly desperate attempts to do something--anything--to come up with a solution. But not only are there no suspects--there aren't even any good motives. Both of the victims are habitual losers but, oddly enough, both are related to two of the families who have recently moved into the development.
Author J. S. Borthwick writes convincingly of Maine life and weather, and presents murder with a light touch. John and Elspeth, in particular, are engaging characters, each with their own foibles, uncertain about their decision to leave their old life and take up this new and organized one. MURDER IN THE ROUGH is light fluff, but it is enjoyable reading.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Borthwick's Murder in the Rough
Review: I have enjoyed all of Borthwick's books since I ran across the first one shortly after its publication. And this latest one is an enjoyable read as we follow Sarah's good and evil twin journey. HOWEVER, this has to be one of the most slovenly-edited books I've ever read. Not only are there typos which a spellchecker couldn't possibly get (vice for voice)so some human intervention is needed, but Uncle Fergus occasionally becomes Uncle Felix. Not what one expects from a respectable publishing house! I do hope enough people complain that they haul up their socks and get down to business!