Amy Korman

If you’re looking for a ridiculously funny mystery populated with Drama Queens who shriek and scream one-liners and non-sequiturs, this series is for you. I’ve lost my taste for “cozy” mysteries because they have all become so formulaic – full of cardboard, deadly dull characters. With Killer Holidays, Amy Korman has taken the cozy mystery, dressed it in Gucci, soaked it in good vodka, and then propped it up with clever, in-your-face storytelling. Implausible? You bet. Does it work? Absolutely. Recommended for mystery readers who take their mysteries with a good red wine and some quality cheese.

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This is the first book I have read in this series. Which, can be read as a stand alone novel; despite there being made references to past events. Kristin and her friends, Bootsie, Gerda, and Holly are fine. In fact, I liked Bootsie the most. She had this big personality and just said things without a filter. Which made her entertaining. Although, I have to admit that my first impressions of the women was not the best. Here is a time where past references were made. The women were visiting with each other when in walks Eula with her new boyfriend. The women do not like Eula and her boyfriend has a shady past. From the little that I knew about Eula, I got the impression she is not a nice woman. However, Kristin and her friends came off as catty as well picking on Eula.

Additionally, I found the story to move slowly; despite the chapters being short. There was not a lot of movement in events transpiring in the story but a lot of talking. It really felt like nothing was happening until the latter half of the story. If the story had been stronger to start out with and the women more likable, I would have really enjoyed this book. Yet, cozy mystery fans, will enjoy this book as it would be right up their reading alley with eccentric characters, a non gory storyline, and a happy ending. Yes, mystery stories can have a happy ending.… (más)

3 STARS



This is interesting, lots of characters, good mystery and lots of cocktails.

I had a hard time connecting to the characters. Don't know it could be just the high life of spending lots of money and drinking so much.



Kristin Clark lives and work in Bryn Mawr, PA. It is a snowy winter, and business is slow. So when Kristin gets phone call from her friends that decide to go to Palm Beach, FL asking her to join them. She can stay in a guest house and where some of her friends designer clothes too.



Kristin, her dog Waffle and Bootsie who is a society reporter head to join her friends.

Holly is a heiress who spends like crazy. Sophie is getting a divorce from her mobster husband.

Holly and Sophie have just bought into a restraint Vicino. Someone tried to kill Holly and Jessica just two nights before Kristin arrives in FL.



There a lot of characters that live in Bryn Mawr that have gone down to Fl for the winter.



Killer Getaway is the second book in the Killer Wasps Mysteries series. Maybe if I had read the first book I could connect to the characters more.



I was given this ebook by author and agreed to give Killer Getaway and be part of it's blog tour.… (más)

While I like the idea of cozy mysteries I don’t actually end up reading them a lot, but in the middle of George Eliot’s dense, idea-rich Daniel Deronda I needed something light--like sherbet--to refresh my reading palate. Killer Wasps did the trick. I don’t know how it stacks up with others in the genre, but it’s certainly a playful, effervescent diversion. Having grown-up in the suburbs of Philadelphia I loved all the southeastern Pennsylvania references (Lancaster County!), Philly based food (hoagies!), and local neighborhood ambiance (the Main Line!) that flavored the story.

The romance is just a series of ridiculous non sequiturs, thirty-three year old Kristin Clark would have a spontaneous makeout session with one guy then moments later be crushing on another, and the book’s other characters are mostly old-line upper crust Bryn Mawr (WASP country) eccentrics or colorful New Jersey nouveau riche types (think Mob connections)--all somewhat over the top but lots of fun. Kristin is perpetually low on funds but she’s inherited her grandparents’ quaint little antique store, so in between solving the mystery (this really is a cozy because there are injuries but nobody dies) she attends Amish and hippie flea markets with her basset hound Waffles to restock her tiny showroom, all of which adds more entertaining elements to the plot.

The story races breathlessly along as Kristin juggles an increasing assortment of mismatched clues, missing neighbors, hunky heartthrobs, flamboyant customers, and discombobulated friends. At first I wasn’t planning to read the sequel, but there’s a love triangle (of course) that’s left hanging at the end (picture Joe Morelli and Ranger of the Stephanie Plum series, but less macho) and I kind of want to know what happens. . .… (más)