Reviews for A Puzzle in a Pear Tree (Puzzle Lady Series #4)

The average rating for A Puzzle in a Pear Tree (Puzzle Lady Series #4) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-11 00:00:00 Marvin Kirkland I really enjoyed the complexity of the mystery in this one, which included red herrings and way too many folks involved, but what would have been four stars for me dropped down to three for two reasons. 1 - the final solution felt rushed and sort of nonsensicle and 2 - my Kindle edition had spots every 15 pages or so wherein multiple words were missing from sentences. Most of the time these omissions were pretty easy to figure out but I can't help but wonder if I missed anything important...That could be the biggest mystery of all.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-28 00:00:00 P.a.m. Janssen "The crime-solving powers of the inimitable Puzzle Lady and he clever niece, Sherry, are put to the ultimate4 test as they square off against a yuletide killer who hides within he white-and-black shadows of an acrostic ... "'Tis the season to be jolly, but Cora Felton, shanghaied into 'The Twelve Days of Christas' as a most reluctant maid-a-milking, has reason to feel like a grinch. The partridge from the pear tree has been replaced with a cryptic puzzle -- one that promises the death of an actress. Could the threat be aimed at Cora and her thespian debut? Or at Sherry, one of the ladies-dancing? Or at Sherry's nemesis, the pagenat's predatory lead? But the show must go on -- until a killer strikes in a most unexpected manner. And when Sherry becomes a prime suspect and the murderer strikes again, it's up to the detecting duo to read between the lines -- before this becomes a Christmas to die for." ~~back cover Convoluted as always, our Cora blunders and bullies her way to solving the murders, thus freeing Sherry from a murder charge. Wonderful dizzy maneuvering along the way for LOL for the reader. What could be better?