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Chargement... In Hot Water (2015)par J. J. Cook, Jim Lavene, Joyce Lavene
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"Stella Griffin should be bubbling over with joy now that she's the full-time fire chief of Sweet Pepper, except trouble is brewing on her doorstep. An angry resident has purchased her cabin, and--with a bulldozer in tow--is ready to tear it down. But as Stella worries over the fate of her home and Eric, her ghostly roommate, there's soon an even greater cause for alarm. A suspicious house fire in the pricey Sunset Beach community at Sweet Pepper Lake claims the life of ex-state representative Barney Falk. The nature of the death has Stella feeling out of her depth, so she teams up with the state's arson investigator. Moving full steam ahead with the case, they must smoke out a killer before the firebug strikes again..."-- From back cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Written in the third person POV by a husband and wife team and unfortunately, it reads like it's written by a husband and wife team - with a bad editor. I'm sorry, but they suck at third person POV; it's all "Stella did this, then Stella said 'x' then Stella went here". It reads like a Dick and Jane book. A good editor could have smoothed this out, made it flow better, but they don't have a good editor as is evident by the number of grammatical errors (of the missing word type - mostly 'a', 'an', 'the' etc.), a lack of clarity, and a few continuity issues. Finally, I don't know who told them ending the books on artificial cliffhangers was a good idea, but it just makes me roll my eyes; it ends a good story on a silly, melodramatic note.
But I like the stories in this series, dammit! I like the characters, I like the relationships the authors have created, I like the back drop of a volunteer fire department; it's not cutesy or frivolous like so many recent cozies. And I really, really like Eric the ghost. The mysteries, too, are decently plotted although this one could have used a lot of polishing. The authors took care not to make the solution obvious, but the journey was a little clunky and ultimately the unmasking wasn't shocking.
I am absolutely going to read the next book because I love the characters and setting in spite of how badly the authors treat both. And if I ever have to be haunted, may I be haunted by a ghost just like Eric.
[PopSugar 2015 Reading Challenge: A book published this year.] ( )