My Gal Sunday
5 journalers for this copy...
Great Book Full of wit and humor aswell as the mystery and supense she is known for..
Picked up at the Australian BookCrossing convention in Brisbane.
I was really, really looking forward to this one as usually I love her books, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I didn't really click with the characters I think, they certainly didn't grab me in the same way as Alvirah and Willy.
Hopefully someone else will like it better.
Hopefully someone else will like it better.
Released 18 yrs ago (2/11/2006 UTC) at
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Filling up a bag to send to catsalive. Hopefully she likes this one, and it can always go into the cosy bookbag!
Filling up a bag to send to catsalive. Hopefully she likes this one, and it can always go into the cosy bookbag!
Journal Entry 5 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Thanks, puppymummy. Paying me out for all those books of mine you took home from the conventions, eh?!
From Publishers Weekly
An appealing husband-and-wife sleuthing team are the stars of the four stories in Clark's new collection. Her protagonists are Henry Parker Britland IV, the 44-year-old former president of the U.S., and his recent bride, plucky congresswoman Sandra ("Sunday") O'Brien Britland. Debonair, wealthy Henry and smart-as-a-whip Sunday enjoy their estates in New Jersey, Florida, the Bahamas and Provence, and other perks of Henry's patrician background, such as a private jet and an elegant yacht. But they keep getting embroiled in dicey situations. The best entry, "They All Ran After the President's Wife," features two genuinely eccentric and creepy evildoers and a kidnapped Sunday in peril. Although nicely set up and suspenseful, it suffers from a rushed denouement. A pleasant diversion, "Hail, Columbia," takes place aboard the Britlands' yacht, from which the prime minister of Costa Barria had disappeared 32 years earlier after having given the then 12-year-old Henry an envelope, which has also vanished, until clever Sunday finds the missing link. A kidnapper from the wrong side of the tracks who improbably speaks fluent French is the drawback to credibility in "Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noel," and the lead entry, "A Crime of Passion," is a clunky no-brainer. But Clark uses every occasion to celebrate her gorgeous newlyweds' delirious happiness and misses no opportunity to cater to those readers who favor a little romance with their mild suspense.
An appealing husband-and-wife sleuthing team are the stars of the four stories in Clark's new collection. Her protagonists are Henry Parker Britland IV, the 44-year-old former president of the U.S., and his recent bride, plucky congresswoman Sandra ("Sunday") O'Brien Britland. Debonair, wealthy Henry and smart-as-a-whip Sunday enjoy their estates in New Jersey, Florida, the Bahamas and Provence, and other perks of Henry's patrician background, such as a private jet and an elegant yacht. But they keep getting embroiled in dicey situations. The best entry, "They All Ran After the President's Wife," features two genuinely eccentric and creepy evildoers and a kidnapped Sunday in peril. Although nicely set up and suspenseful, it suffers from a rushed denouement. A pleasant diversion, "Hail, Columbia," takes place aboard the Britlands' yacht, from which the prime minister of Costa Barria had disappeared 32 years earlier after having given the then 12-year-old Henry an envelope, which has also vanished, until clever Sunday finds the missing link. A kidnapper from the wrong side of the tracks who improbably speaks fluent French is the drawback to credibility in "Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noel," and the lead entry, "A Crime of Passion," is a clunky no-brainer. But Clark uses every occasion to celebrate her gorgeous newlyweds' delirious happiness and misses no opportunity to cater to those readers who favor a little romance with their mild suspense.
Journal Entry 7 by catsalive at Aussie Post in Mystery/Thriller VBB, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, February 15, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (2/15/2007 UTC) at Aussie Post in Mystery/Thriller VBB, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Sent to rebeccaljames in USA.
Sent to rebeccaljames in USA.
I just received this today. Thank you for sharing.
I caught this book (my first time here) via poshpoints. Now, I plan to reoffer it on posh points.
CAUGHT IN SPRING HILL FLORIDA USA
CAUGHT IN SPRING HILL FLORIDA USA