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Revell (2007), 379 pages
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Professional renovator Tish Amble decided long ago that staying in one place is about as exciting as peeling wallpaper from plaster. So before the paint in each newly transformed home is dry, Tish is researching her next move. This time she chooses a small town in Michigan with a dilapidated Victorian that challenges her imagination. But Tish's idyllic small-town dream fizzles when she finds more in the creepy basement than what was revealed on the seller's disclosure-what looks like traces of foul play. With a hovering police officer living next door and a possible love interest just two doors down, Tish has her hands full. Will she discover the truth before it's too late?
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LibraryThing member debs4jc
Tish moves into her latest project--a Victorian home that she is remodeling. Tish's MO is to move into a fixer upper, remodel it as quickly as possible, and move on. She doesn't plan on getting involved in the town or with her neighbors, but things don't work out according to her plans at all. She
This was an enjoyable story, I though the heroine was a bit dumb in some spots, and there wasn't much depth to some of the characters. It was a nice light read.
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ends up having two guys who are interested in her--one of whom is a cop, which scares her to death because of her checkered past. She also is convinced there is something very odd going on in her basement--like there being a dead body buried in there, but no one will believe her. So Tish ends up with a mystery to solve, a love triangle to figure out, and the ever present stigma of her past to deal with. In the midst of all this, how will her house ever get remodeled?This was an enjoyable story, I though the heroine was a bit dumb in some spots, and there wasn't much depth to some of the characters. It was a nice light read.
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LibraryThing member rhonda1111
Patricia buys old homes lives in them and fixes up them for resell. She bought an old victorian house that some say is haunted, Of course she moved in October. Patricia gets the idea that thier is a body in her basement buried in cement. she spent 3 years in prison for murdering her
David comes to welcome her to nieghborhood and be friend hers. she finds he is married but divorce papers are in the works. he is from england and does computer works.
brad is her nieghbor next door a cop. But she has a fear of cops.
She does find a new body in basement and she is arreseted for killing him. because she had motivae and opportunity. So she has to find out who killed him so she wont be convicted of his murder.
Its a enteraing mystery
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grandmother.David comes to welcome her to nieghborhood and be friend hers. she finds he is married but divorce papers are in the works. he is from england and does computer works.
brad is her nieghbor next door a cop. But she has a fear of cops.
She does find a new body in basement and she is arreseted for killing him. because she had motivae and opportunity. So she has to find out who killed him so she wont be convicted of his murder.
Its a enteraing mystery
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LibraryThing member bookwyrmm
As a mystery, this was very slow to get to any real crime. Also, it lacked the fun that a cozy should have. The title was a little odd and was used as a response to romance, which turned out the most disappointing of all.
LibraryThing member soireadthisbooktoday
What a shame it is to have to give a two star review to a book with potential. Tish is someone I truly wanted to like. A home restoration specialist, she has a good life after a horrific youth. Moving into a run-down Victorian to restore it, she finds herself surrounded by truly strange
Our erstwhile heroine immediately meets the Brit expat from two houses down, then the cop from the house behind her and down one, and both of them immediately fall for her, frizzy hair, Goodwill reject clothes and all. This when the Brit is rebounding from a marriage to a centerfold beautiful woman no less.
After knowing the Brit for a total of “about three hours” he asks her to marry him . . and she goes over to his house to accept the very next day to accept, having fallen in love with him when, as before stated, they have known each other for about three hours and had one dinner together. Something should have set the red lights off, right? Riiiight…. The cop is, of course, crazy about her also, and she was just with him the night before fantasizing about being married to him and having kids, then the next day she decides she is in love with the Brit and is fantasizing about being married to him? That immediately had me rolling my eyes . . .
Then there is the “body in the cistern” aspect – (this is the part I was really hoping to have fun with . . . buzzzz!) If she really thinks there is a body in there, why doesn’t she get off her backside and break apart the concrete? Especially when yet another body, that of the historical society leader who refused to let her remove the cistern shows up in the cistern (dead) – and she is sent to jail for the murder. Then immediately starts running for his position once she is out of jail? Her whole attitude is deeply bipolar and totally bizarre.
This is a “Christian Romance” sort of thing, which I didn’t know when I picked it up. I tried to keep that out of my thought processes with the story line, but even that was over the top unbelievable. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes so hard that I gave myself a headache.
As I said, I truly wanted to like this book, based on the ghost story, of course, but I wanted very much to like Tish based on what she had been through in her life and what she has accomplished since that time. Sadly, poor writing, overwrought story lines, and I was disappointed to realize that I truly couldn’t care less what happens to her from this point on. She is simply too bipolar and creepy to be likable.
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townspeople, missing women, and a possible ghost haunting her house. Being a home restoration nut myself, I thought this would be a great little book to read, especially as it was a mystery with a paranormal slant. Sounds great right? Uh. Not. So. Much. Truthfully? I was being generous giving it two stars on Amazon. If it weren’t a freebie, I would have asked for my money back. Honestly, I kept reading it hoping it would get better. Instead, it wound up circling the drain, and I kept reading simply because it was like watching a fifty-car pileup on highway 70 during a snowstorm.Our erstwhile heroine immediately meets the Brit expat from two houses down, then the cop from the house behind her and down one, and both of them immediately fall for her, frizzy hair, Goodwill reject clothes and all. This when the Brit is rebounding from a marriage to a centerfold beautiful woman no less.
After knowing the Brit for a total of “about three hours” he asks her to marry him . . and she goes over to his house to accept the very next day to accept, having fallen in love with him when, as before stated, they have known each other for about three hours and had one dinner together. Something should have set the red lights off, right? Riiiight…. The cop is, of course, crazy about her also, and she was just with him the night before fantasizing about being married to him and having kids, then the next day she decides she is in love with the Brit and is fantasizing about being married to him? That immediately had me rolling my eyes . . .
Then there is the “body in the cistern” aspect – (this is the part I was really hoping to have fun with . . . buzzzz!) If she really thinks there is a body in there, why doesn’t she get off her backside and break apart the concrete? Especially when yet another body, that of the historical society leader who refused to let her remove the cistern shows up in the cistern (dead) – and she is sent to jail for the murder. Then immediately starts running for his position once she is out of jail? Her whole attitude is deeply bipolar and totally bizarre.
This is a “Christian Romance” sort of thing, which I didn’t know when I picked it up. I tried to keep that out of my thought processes with the story line, but even that was over the top unbelievable. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes so hard that I gave myself a headache.
As I said, I truly wanted to like this book, based on the ghost story, of course, but I wanted very much to like Tish based on what she had been through in her life and what she has accomplished since that time. Sadly, poor writing, overwrought story lines, and I was disappointed to realize that I truly couldn’t care less what happens to her from this point on. She is simply too bipolar and creepy to be likable.
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Original publication date
2007-04-01