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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Synopsis: 'Corinna Chapman’s bakery and her boyfriend both come under siege. Corinna is understandably upset when a “hot bread shop” opens just down the street in Melbourne from Earthly Delights. The chain store’s product is inferior to hers, but its prices much cheaper. Even more upsetting is the “old friend” who’s come to visit Corinna’s lover Daniel: stunning blonde Georgiana, who apparently has her eye on both Daniel and Earthly Delights. Meanwhile, seemingly ordinary people are going crazy and jumping off buildings in the neighborhood. The police close all shops serving food when they discover that an ergot fungus is the cause. All Corinna’s friends from Insula, the unusual Roman-style apartment house where she lives, rally round to provide comfort to the stricken Earthly Delights bakers, who fear that bad rye mistakenly delivered to but not used by them is the source of the ergot. Corinna’s friend, the powerful witch Meroe, has her own troubles; she doesn’t approve of the carryings-on by some of the Wiccans gathered in Melbourne for Samhain celebrations. Daniel, a private investigator, is pursuing treasures stolen by Nazis from the Jews of Greece, and the case heats up when several valuable pieces turn up underwater at the witches’ camping area. As the two plots converge, Corinna and Daniel combine their sleuthing abilities to identify the fiendish malefactor. Working a case loosely based on a true story, Corinna and her friends are as delightful as ever, the killer a surprise and the appended recipes a treat.' Review: This was a very interesting look at Wicca. It makes me want to know more. Australia, poisons, war-booty, witches, friendship, greed, investigation Another delightfully complex mystery with Corinna, Daniel, and the characters who live in the building known as Insula. The investigations are into people poisoned with what seems to be LSD, a megalomaniac who claims to be the King of Witches and a ceremony, unusual WW2 booty from Greece showing up locally in Australia, and a few other things. Addictive series! Louise Siverson is absolutely fantastic in voice interpretation of the interesting characters! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: "A rich confection that nicely balances humor, villainy, and a puzzle." ??Publishers Weekly When crowds flock to purchase bread from a cut-price franchise bakery just down the street from Earthly Delights, baker Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, her lover Daniel's old friend Georgiana Hope has set up residence in his house. She's tall, blonde, and gorgeous, and it doesn't take Corinna long to suspect she's up to something. Daniel is making excuses, and Corinna is worried about his sudden, frequent absences. But even more worrisome is the strange outbreak of madness that seems to be centered on Lonsdale Street. Can Corinna master a maze of health regulations, her missing boyfriend, sinister strangers, fraudulent companies, and back-alley ambushes? Or this time, will Earthly Delights Bakery be well and truly done? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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3 stars
I still enjoy the characters, especially the cats. I envy Corinna her Daniel, who seems too good to be true. But, the mish-mash plot of this book just didn’t work.
In the first place, the title is very misleading. The book has nothing to do with American Halloween customs. The Wiccan celebration of Samhain is distastefully combined with a convoluted tale of Nazi occupation of Greece and missing treasures of the lost Jewish community.
The story didn’t work. The ending was weak. The convenient death of one evil character and the apparent deportation of another were unbelievably lame ways to deal with serious crime.