Trouble Looking For A Place To Happen

By Toni L.P. Kelner

Book Overview

Laura Fleming has come home to Northern California for her much-married aunt's latest wedding. But if the Boston sleuth expects to find peace and quiet, she's come to the wrong place. Especially after... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575660075
• ISBN13: 9781575660073
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

I did it!

I figured this one out way before the end! I'm so proud of myself!! Good luck to you! This is another installment of Kelner's Southern series. There is a lot of humor in this book. The Burnette family themselves could make a book! I tend to get involved with the characters as much as the mystery, so this matters to me. Laurie Anne and Richard even have really cute quote contest going on throughout this one. I think this is a series for you if you really like good characters with lots of little quirks. So what's the story this time? Well, Laurie Anne and Richard are in town for her Aunt Ruby Lee's marriage (the fifth) when Tom Honeywell gets murdered at the big country music Jamboree. Laurie Anne's cousin, Illene, is accused of the murder and so in come Laurie Anne and Richard to try to get Illene off. Lots of twists and turns to get the final conclusion. Definitely one to get your mind working.

Laura and Richard Return to Byerly for a Wedding

Aunt Ruby Lee is getting married for the fifth time. Second time around to Roger of Rogers Ramblers. Their daughter Ilene is rebelling big time. She wants a career in music, but her father thinks it is no place for his daughter. She enters the local Music Jamboree with the assistance of her sleazeball boyfriend. The boyfriend ends up dead on the Rambler's bus and Ilene is accused of murder.This is a good addition to the series. Laura and Richard have to use their wits and Laura's pack of relatives to solve the crime and the reader has alot of fun in the meantime. A mystery from the past is solved also, which adds some dimension to the plot.

No murder until after page 100

This is such a warm and cosy book I feel bad saying anythingnegative about it. I have to warn the squeamish that somebody says "rats", that one character might like men instead of girls, and someone appears on stage in a mini-skirt with a bare midriff (but her father drags her off). A married couple unplug the phone for a hour to do something. There's a lot of nailbiting tension about the plans for Aunt Ruby Lee's wedding. If you can stand all that sex and suspense the mystery is quite well plotted with fairly placed clues. It's set in North Carolina with thick local atmosphere but no mention of race problems (everybody seems to be white if their physical appearance is described). A good-humored blend of "Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood" and Agatha Christie. A neat joke in the acknowledgements.