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Murder, Served Simply (Amish Quilt Shop Mystery) (2014 original; edición 2014)

por Isabella Alan (Autor)

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Fiction. Mystery. Christian Fiction. HTML:Amish quilt shop owner Angie Braddock has a lot on her plate this Christmas. But things only get worse after someone develops a taste for murder in this festive mystery in the national bestselling series.
 
Angie??s parents are visiting Rolling Brook for Christmas??but unfortunately, her ex is joining them. Luckily, Angie has no time to dwell on her romantic troubles as she prepares her store, Running Stitch, for the town??s traditional progressive dinner, featuring a sleigh ride stopping at each shop for a different course of the meal.
 
The meal ends with an Amish-themed Christmas play at the Swiss Valley Hotel and Barn. But the performance is cut short when an actress falls from the scaffolding to her death. After the sheriff suspects foul play, tensions between the Amish and Englisch heat up, as do rivalries among the acting troupe. Now Angie and her quilting circle must stitch together clues before they??re the ones running for cover...
 
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Título:Murder, Served Simply (Amish Quilt Shop Mystery)
Autores:Isabella Alan (Autor)
Información:Berkley (2014), 368 pages
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Valoración:****
Etiquetas:Fiction, Ohio, Amish, Mystery, Series

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It's Christmas in Ohio and what says Christmas more than hosting one's parents for the season along with your former fiance, who had an affair with the wedding cake decorator. Can we say awkward? Meanwhile, there's a play being done at the local hotel and a progressive dinner and quilt show. The problem with the play is that it's a musical about the Amish and the Amish in the town are not amused. When the lead actress, a former Amish girl from town, is murdered, Angie must find out who murdered this beautiful, fascinating woman. The ending of the book seemed weak, but we did get more information on the family background of Rachel, one of my favorite characters. ( )
  whymaggiemay | Feb 27, 2021 |
Amish quilt shop owner Angie Braddock has a lot on her plate this Christmas. Her parents are visiting, and they've brought her ex-fiance along with them. She's part of progressive dinner and Amish themed play. Eve Shelter is a local Amish girl that left Rolling Brook and is returning to perform in front of her family and townfolk, who previously disowned her when she left. But she never expected to be playing a murder victim.

This is a cute little cozy mystery set in a fictional Amish village. The characters are very likable. Needless to say my favorite character is Angie's French Bulldog, Oliver. He's deathly afraid of birds, loves his little brother, Dodger the kitten, and wears a reindeer sweater and red boots throughout the book. Sure, it's not a contender for the Booker Prize, but it's definitely a cute and entertaining read.

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  Olivermagnus | Jul 2, 2020 |
It's nearing Christmas in Rolling Brook, Ohio, and Angie Braddock, who inherited her Aunt Eleanor's Amish quilting shop, is gearing up for her parents visit. She's not happy that her mother has invited her ex-fiancé, Ryan, but there isn't anything she can do about it except vow not to spend any more time with him than she needs to. It's also apparent Sheriff Mitchell isn't happy about Ryan being there, as his own relationship with Angie is starting to take shape.

On the night of the Amish progressive dinner, everyone is going to various places for a different course, and then at the end watching a play put on by an acting troupe. Angie discovers that the lead actress - Eve Shetler - is former Amish and not everyone wants her there. It's never more apparent than when she falls to her death from scaffolding, and the suspects range from the Amish to the Englisch. Angie decides to do a little sleuthing herself since she met and liked Eve, even if everyone wants her to stay out of the investigation. But somehow it's giving her more questions than answers, and the final one will make all the difference...

This is the third book in the series, and I think I liked it better than the first two. While I really didn't think Angie had any real claim to investigate, I did like the idea of the progressive dinner, and merging Amish Christmases with Englisch ones seemed interesting in itself. We got to learn more about Angie's parents which was a lot of fun, and her mother's idea of decorating a Christmas tree was unusual, to say the least.

I really didn't care for the fact that Angie was dodging Ryan instead of talking to him, but I guess it was what he deserved for deserting her at the altar, after all. I would have expected her to develop a little bit of backbone with everything she's been through; but I didn't see that. Still, I imagine she had her reasons for putting him off.

When we finally get into the mystery, which actually played second fiddle to Angie's non-visit and visit with her parents (read the book and you'll understand why I say that) I didn't feel that we were given enough on the murder itself; and while the clues were there, at the same time they actually weren't. There was one huge red herring that turned out to not to have anything to do with it at all, actually. So while I don't think this was a bad book, I do think it could have been given a little more detail on the mystery to solve. ( )
  joannefm2 | May 11, 2020 |
Angie’s parents are coming from Texas for Christmas, and so is Angie’s ex-fiancé. She is glad that her parents have come, but not so glad for her ex to be in town, especially when her current almost-boyfriend, the sheriff, is around. When a young actress falls to her death during a benefit performance, all are stunned. Formerly from that Amish community, Eve’s death is especially hard on her family and friends. Angie wants to find out who caused the actress to fall, and almost ignores her visitors in her quest. There is quite a bit of tension in this mystery, much of it arising from the relationships Angie has with her family and love interests. The characters are interesting, and the plot intriguing. Readers likely will guess who the guilty party is, but you won’t know for sure until the end. ( )
  Maydacat | Jun 2, 2019 |
Sadly, no. This series is done for me.

In addition to a sleuth with an ego the size of her home state of Texas regarding her ability to solve the murder, there are a stupid number of story inconsistencies. It seems the book was edited on a micro level but then was either not re-read or re-read by someone who wasn't paying attention.

Three examples:

1. In the same scene, Angie "scoops up Oliver" (her dog) and a few paragraphs later, "clutching Oliver closer to my chest" and then 2 sentences later, "Oliver's solid body pressed up against my leg. I scratched him between the ears, his favorite spot, before setting him back on the ground."

So he's in her arms, clutched closer to her chest, but still able to press against her legs? I'd say it's a big damn dog, but it's stated up front that Oliver is a French bulldog.

2. In chapter 2, Angie has an encounter with an angry, somewhat volatile Amish man (Nahum) as she "shuffled forward on the ice bit by bit, so focused on not falling that I didn't hear anyone approaching". But in chapter 27, when she's talking to Nahum again and he describes his encounter with the murder victim, Angie recalls "That must have been right before I nearly hit Nahum with my car in the parking lot."

3. I don't have chapter numbers for this one but one of the characters specifically mentions helping the murder victim get her driver's license when she left the Amish community, but several chapters later, it's stated as a fact she never bothered getting her driver's license because she was moving to NYC and didn't need one.

Other huge turn offs included a scene where Angie hears some information and – I'm paraphrasing here but not by much – she "rubs her hands together; another potential suspect". I like my murder mysteries, but that was just a bit too gleeful. There's also the sorry, tired trope of the ex-returns-moroseful so we have a book-long love triangle. And also, this christmas-themed book didn't feel christmassy - but that could have just been me being grumpy about the rest.

The final nail in the coffin was the obviousness of the murderer. I can't say the author telegraphed the identity through an abuse of clues, but the motivation didn't feel subtle to me and pair that with a lack of serious suspects, and the plot just lacked.

I'm sad over this. I love the Amish setting and the author does a great job of portraying the Amish community as humans instead of making them too beatific to be real. She's also a LOT less preachy and earnest in her writing style than other Amish mysteries I've read. She writes very likeable characters and has talent - I've read some of her other writing and really quite liked it. But, I just didn't like this enough to continue on. ( )
  murderbydeath | Oct 18, 2016 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Christian Fiction. HTML:Amish quilt shop owner Angie Braddock has a lot on her plate this Christmas. But things only get worse after someone develops a taste for murder in this festive mystery in the national bestselling series.
 
Angie??s parents are visiting Rolling Brook for Christmas??but unfortunately, her ex is joining them. Luckily, Angie has no time to dwell on her romantic troubles as she prepares her store, Running Stitch, for the town??s traditional progressive dinner, featuring a sleigh ride stopping at each shop for a different course of the meal.
 
The meal ends with an Amish-themed Christmas play at the Swiss Valley Hotel and Barn. But the performance is cut short when an actress falls from the scaffolding to her death. After the sheriff suspects foul play, tensions between the Amish and Englisch heat up, as do rivalries among the acting troupe. Now Angie and her quilting circle must stitch together clues before they??re the ones running for cover...
 
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