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Marja McGraw

Auteur van Old Murders Never Die

14 Werken 57 Leden 4 Besprekingen Favoriet van 1 leden

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Werken van Marja McGraw

Old Murders Never Die (2011) 13 exemplaren
Bogey Nights (2011) 10 exemplaren
They Call Me Ace (2013) 8 exemplaren
Bogey's Ace in the Hole (2011) 5 exemplaren
A Well-Kept Family Secret (2008) 3 exemplaren
The Bogey Man (2013) 2 exemplaren
Death Comes in Threes (2014) 2 exemplaren
Bubba's Ghost (2008) 2 exemplaren
Big Trouble for a Little Lady (2001) 1 exemplaar
Prudy's Back! 1 exemplaar
How Now Purple Cow 1 exemplaar
What Are the Odds? (2014) 1 exemplaar

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female
Woonplaatsen
Southern California, USA
Northern Nevada, USA
Oregon, USA
Wasilla, Alaska, USA
Arizona, USA
Korte biografie
Marja McGraw is originally from Southern California, where she worked in both criminal and civil law enforcement for several years. Relocating to Northern Nevada, she worked for the State highway department. Marja also did a stint in Oregon where she worked for the County Sheriff's Office and where she owned her own business, a Tea Room/Antique store. After a brief stop in Wasilla, Alaska, she returned to Nevada. Marja wrote a weekly column for a small newspaper in No. Nevada and she was the editor for the Sisters in Crime Internet Newsletter for a year and a half. She's appeared on television in Nevada, and she's also been a guest on various radio and Internet radio shows. She writes the Sandi Webster Mysteries and the Bogey Man Mysteries, and says that each of her mysteries contain a little humor, a little romance and A Little Murder! She currently resides in Arizona with her husband, where life is good. http://www.marjamcgraw.com/

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Although this had a wonderful wolf/golden retriever, "Bubba" and was set next door to my home town (Covina, CA)...it was boring and very poorly written.
 
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Auntie-Nanuuq | Jan 18, 2016 |
One of the best mysteries I've read in ages. LA PIs Sandi and Pete are off on a camping vacation when they become lost. They take a short hike to find a place to spend the night and find a ghost town. On returning to their jeep to get things they find that the jeep has been broken in to and it won't start when they try to leave. So starts the story Wolf Creek.
 
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Rennee | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 10, 2013 |
First Line: The far off cry of the sirens turned into a frantic wail as they neared Good Joe's Honky Tonk, sending a chill down my spine and panic rising up my throat.

Pamela Cross is right to feel that panic. She and her husband Chris have just watched their 1940s-themed restaurant burn down to the ground. Fortunately they quickly find an old house that can be converted to a new forties-style eatery and hope that their chef as well as the wait staff and the band that provides the live music will still be available when the new place opens.

Renovations are progressing at a good pace until a body is discovered, buried in the basement of the old house since 1943. With no business to run at the moment, Chris and Pamela have plenty of time to do a bit of research into the old murder-- with the blessing of an overworked Detective Janet Riley. With the best of babysitters in Constance Hargood, the couple can have peace of mind that their son, seven-year-old Mikey, will be well taken care of while they're playing private eyes. What they don't realize is that-- even though all the suspects may be old-- they can still be deadly.

I was in the perfect mood for this fun-loving book. Yes, Pamela and her Humphrey Bogart lookalike husband Chris play amateur sleuths, but they don't ignore everything else in their lives. In fact, I think the author's depiction of her characters' family life was one of the things I enjoyed most as I read Bogey Nights. Their two dogs Sherlock and Watson have a piece of the action, they make friends with Detective Riley and her dog Friday, they deal with Mikey's adventures at school-- and they keep up with all the hundreds of details involved in getting a new business up and running. In so many of the mysteries I read, I never get a true feeling of family or "connected-ness" with the characters. It's almost as if they have no lives outside of solving crime. Not so with Pamela and Chris Cross, and I was surprised at how refreshing that is.

The mystery is a corker, with plenty of twists and turns, but I thought I had it all figured out as I turned the pages. Then I had that moment... that moment when a reader has a light bulb go off over her head with a glaring neon sign that flashes, "Hold the phone, cupcake. You're not as smart as you think you are!" Sure enough, I had plenty of things figured out-- but not the most important one.

I was also pleasantly surprised at the relationship that the couple had with the detective on the case-- even to the point of their becoming friends. I did become concerned with the amount of work Janet Riley was allowing them to do, but McGraw addressed my worries very nicely by book's end.

If anything at all bothered me about Bogey Nights, it was the overuse of two idiosyncrasies. Pamela has a tendency to roll her eyes (I do that rather well myself), but there were times that she did it so much that I was afraid her eyes would get stuck in the back of her head. And Chris? Maybe it's because I've never been a Humphrey Bogart fan, but Chris just turned that upper lip of his under too much. Looking like Bogey? Fine. Talking like Bogey? No problem. Using 1940s slang? Copacetic. But please don't wear that lip out, Chris. You're going to need it! However, those were very minor annoyances that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the book. In fact, I'm going to be looking for the others in this series!
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cathyskye | Jun 16, 2013 |
Sandi & Pete are private investigators, engaged and setting out on a camping trip in Arizona. When Pete takes a "road" that Sandi labels a trail they find themselves stranded in an old ghost town that isn't on any of the maps they brought with them.

While investigating the town Sandi finds some journals from the Sheriff in 1880 and 1881 that indicate a murder occurred in this peaceful little town. Pete is more interested in why everyone seems to have deserted the town at about the same time, many leaving behind almost everything they owned! Did the murder have anything to do with that?

There is another mystery that intrudes, a mysterious cowboy who rides in on his horse, scares both Sandi and Pete and then disappears, only to reappear at different times.

I liked a lot about this story, the old mystery that the Sheriff was trying to solve, the mystery of why the cowboy stranded them here and the interaction of the two city slickers with the challenges of camping in a ghost town.

The only thin that bothered me was how often McGraw felt she needed to say the two main characters names. I didn't notice at first but as the book got a little more intense it started to intrude. Since there were only three people in the area (plus a town full of "ghosts") it felt forced for them to forever be calling out each others names. It wasn't bad enough that I won't read more stories with Sandi and Pete.
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bookswoman | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 29, 2013 |

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Werken
14
Leden
57
Populariteit
#287,973
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
4
ISBNs
16
Favoriet
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