61. Bookmarked for Death
Publication: Kindle
Pages:
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Acquisition:
Date Completed: August 5, 2011
Rating: ***1/2

Nothing will put a damper on a book signing like the guest of honor dying in the bathroom, but it's just Tricia Miles' luck that that's what happens when famed mystery author Zoe Carter agrees to a book signing, despite her reclusive tendencies. With her shop closed as a crime scene, Tricia feels she has no choice but to do some investigating of her own. However, she soon finds that the instincts of an armchair detective aren't always up to snuff.

62.
Author(s): Laura Childs
Title: Death by Darjeeling
Publication: Kindle
Pages: 40% finished
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Acquisition:
Date Completed: abandoned August 7, 2011
Rating: *

Death by Darjeeling is completely without soul. Consisting almost entirely of exhausted adjectives, Laura childs continually and consistently violates the first rule of freshman creative writing: to show rather than tell. The prose is awkward and punchy, and the plot itself is tired by the time Childs even bothers coming back to it. This is a truly terrible piece of writing, and I can't force myself to soldier through another dull and laden paragraph.