When the Pineapple Port crew pack up a snake-bus and head to North Carolina for a vaction, the Outer Banks will never be the same…Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY Best-Selling author Amy Vansant packs up the Pineapple Port crew and sends them north in book FIVE of the hilarious mystery series you won’t believe! The Pineapple Port crew takes a road trip to the Outer Banks, North Carolina, only … crew takes a road trip to the Outer Banks, North Carolina, only to discover “body bits” in their vacation home. The nursing home next door is run by some suspicious characters and one of their residents is missing.
Hmm…
As the bits o’ somebody pile up (and Mariska keeps the neat and safe in a butter dish), amateur sleuth Charlotte Morgan and her friends must solve the murder before a storm blows them all back to Florida!
The Pineapple Port Mystery Series is both sweet and wicked, and always hilarious! Fans of funny mysteries that remain real puzzles to the end will put the Pineapple Port series on their virutal shelves next to Janet Evanovich, Carl Hiaasen and Jana DeLeon.
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Somehow, our Florida people decide they need a vacation. Darla has a friend who owns a beach house in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The beach house needs some work done to it to be ready for the next rental season, so in spite of it being November, the whole gang piles into a snake bus that Seamus finds to take them to North Carolina. Sister Carolina and husband fly in from Michigan and meet them at the beach house. They already know they have to paint all the inside rooms and they bring the paint with them on the bus. Carolina gets there 2 days early and takes it upon herself to do some shopping, ending up with lots of steak cramming the freezer and refrigerator. Meanwhile, a cold front and a hurricane decide to bump into one another right about the time Charlotte finds a finger in the garbage can. Talk about wacky things happening during vacation!
Funny and clean who-dun-it, what exactly did they do, and (by the way) where are they now? Very entertaining.
This book was so much fun, I can easily see it as a film or at the very least the whole Pineapple Port Mysteries being turned into a tv series.
It contained the usual characters and humorous moments that have you laughing out loud but what was usual was the setting. Charlotte and her friends go on a working holiday and it’s not lot long before it turns into a bus mans holiday for Pi’s Charlotte and Seamus when body parts start turning up in the house (the book is a cozy mystery so no graphic details are used to explain the parts . I am just glad that you can’t get smells from reading a book). With the only neighbours in the area a nursing home and no way for the police to get to the remote location, it’s up to them to find a killer and more importantly a body.
It was a great read and I hope it makes its way to audio too!
When the Pineapple Port crew head to N.C. Outer banks you know it’s not going to be a normal vacation. As they do repairs to the home in exchange for a free 2 weeks stay they start to think they got the short end of the straw. Once they arrive they discover a cold front and Atlantic storm are about to collide right where they are staying. As they settle in they start to discover body parts! With a nursing home next door full of suspicious people they think they must have murdered someone. So Charlotte and Seamus are on the case. I love this series with it eccentric and entertaining characters! If you are looking for a fun quick mystery book this is the one you want. I highly recommend this book and this series!
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The action moves out of Florida for a Thanksgiving work-in-lieu-of-rent North Carolina beach vacation. Author Amy Vansant’s trademark humor is bolstered by narrator Rosemary Benson’s well-voiced characterizations as bits and pieces of a body keep turning up. Is this one murder or are a series of corpses crying for justice?
Pineapple Beach House: A Pineapple Port Mystery
Pineapple Port Mysteries, Book 5
By: Amy Vansant
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary. This is the strangest mystery I have ever read/listened to! Lol! A group of friends go on vacation and at this house they end up finding a person’s finger near the outside trash almost as soon as they get there. It just gets worse from then on! Who’s bits are these?
A fun read with them trying to figure out what happened! Soon the neighbors are involved! It is a funny story despite a murder mystery story!
Lots of surprises, a little suspense, heavily sprinkled with humor, great characters, and I love the added weird bits of the story such as their vehicle, and in the beginning of the book when they went to the wrong club!
The narration was terrific! Truly enjoyed this book!
Witty, Wacky so darn good!
When I first read the book I was blown away by how many funny one-liners this book had. Yes, it is a mystery but the characters are so over the top that you just shake your head and love every minute you spend reading about their adventure. Do yourself a favor get the book it will make your day!
This is not the best book in the series, but it was a good read. Once again, the ending came as a complete surprise. Although each of the books can be read as a stand alone, I’m glad that I read them all in order.
Great series
“Pineapple Beach House” earns 5/5 Vacation Fiascos!
The hook was immediate—a misunderstanding at a ‘Goth’ book club? Road trip in a ‘snake’ bus? An impending ‘perfect storm’? Amy sets up the group with a free stay at beach house on the outer banks of North Carolina in exchange for some housekeeping and completing a handyman ‘to do’ list. It’s somewhat naive that Charlotte was looking forward to this little getaway with boyfriend Declan when the Pineapple Port crew was in tow; a multi-generational road trip is bound to have some trouble. Trouble! I guess is relative because this page-turner has the weather turning ominous, the neighbors looking geriatric plus, the turkey dinner becoming the dogs’ treat, and all capped off with the discovery of a frozen human finger in the trash. What’s under the bed? Did you unclog the sink? The characters continue to be delightful and the personalities all seem to work together. I can see my own family in many of the quirks and vulnerabilities. The multi-generational theme includes the use of some over 55 crowd stereotypes to provide humor and conflict. I enjoyed it, but some may have an issue with it. “Pineapple Beach House” was a great read culminating with my inner sleuth being stumped at the final “Oh, my!” conclusion.
“Disclosure: A review copy of this book was sent to me by the author. However, all of the above opinions are my own.”
Charlotte, Declan, boyfriend and their ‘crusty crew’ are spending Thanksgiving in NC at the beach. No fun in the sun. Instead Rain, Wind and Body Parts. There’s been a murder but where, who and how?!? Amy Vansant makes it worth solving this mystery. Join the Pineapple Port group while they figure it out. Humorous enjoyment and a great series. I read through Kindle Unlimited.
Pineapple Port Working Vacation in the Outer Banks.
Not a vanilla group of retirees. Sassy seniors with some wild backgrounds share a beachside retreat with twenty-something Charlotte, who grew up in their retirement community.
I think of the series as Retirement Murder Mystery Cozy with a Twist.
The wicked genius of author Amy Vansant gives us seniors who’ve lived full, zany lives. These folks have had long lives, in some cases, multiple marriages, and some um, creative careers.
Thanks for the advance reader copy so I got an early peek at the fun, murder and mayhem!
Sassy Uncle Seamus had always told Carlotte’s beau Declan that he was a cop. Seamus was in fact a Police Informant, and a licensed PI. He has boisterous style with flair, and tends to color a bit outside the lines to sweet talk, charm, or snare info or whatever he’s after. Gran would have called him a Charming Irish ***- the kind who makes you smile. He’s a PI Mentor for Charlotte, much to Sherrif Frank’s chagrin.
Charlotte seems to a bit fluffy herself, possibly because her extended network of family-friends kept her a bit away from their really darkest sides. A scary thought, because they all seem to share funky skills and stories with Charlotte.
Cheerful Darla, with her Sheriff husband, quirky holiday decorations, and Turbo the mini-dachshund dog, shares her lock picking skills with Charlotte.
Midwestern Polish gal Mariska develops Carlotte’s love of food, and a taste for meat. Not quite up to snuff with Mariska’s sister Carolina’s bag o meat and loads of potatoes Midwestern diet. Both ladies do their best to give Charlotte hug therapy. Carolina’s hubby is an electrician and handyman, so a welcome addition to the work party. Mariska has a lead foot when driving, and a knack for getting in surprising situations.
A favorite early chapter lands Darla, Mariska and Charlotte at a party Mariska says is a Gothic Romance Costume Party. Arriving in crinolines and hoop skirts, the ladies find themselves surrounded by black leather, heavy metal and vampire dressed 55 plus seniors.
No serious damage done, except a crinkly old man trying to lick Charlotte on the neck. He desists his efforts when Charlotte threatens to steak him, with a Porterhouse. Mariska tells the hostess she read the invite that said ” light S & M” as light Snacks and Meats.
Mariska’s Bob seems pretty placid until he joins the boys of the Bourbon Club. Bob has an alter ego Lance, a nickname from Bob’s Lance Corporal Days in the Marines. Lance appears as the Bourbon disappears. He’s a bit of a ladies man and a rounder.
Charlotte’s boyfriend Declan is an alleged hottie, drooled over for his swimmers body by some of Pineapple Ports ladies. He seems fairly tame and boring to me compared to his Sassy Uncle Seamus. He doesn’t seem to have the sort of flair of his senior counterparts. Charlotte met Declan when he made his rounds at Pineapple Port. He has a second hand shop located in a former ethnic chain restaurant building: Hock O Bell.
Declan has a colorful new employee who goes by Blade. Blade is a genius as selling odd items to the folks of Charity and Pineapple Port. Blade added an eye patch to a mounted deer head with a damaged eye. He called him Black Deered, and made a quick sale. Blade is unnervingly fond of t-shirts with knives or other sharp weapons on them, which he gives nicknames. He seems to be a sideshow like attraction, and a great draw to Declan’s shop. A favorite of the Pineapple Port ladies and gents.
The gang finds themselves at a friend’s beach house. They’ve agreed to help bring it up to snuff for sale, a working vacation that is no free ride.
Weather in November in the Outerbanks is cold and stormy, and takes the used to warmer weather Floridians unprepared and under-dressed for the rain / sleet/ snow storm that greets them when they arrive in their borrowed Snakemobile Converted Bus, courtesy of Seamus. He always makes an eye catching appearance. Who wouldn’t notice a bright colored snake parked on the sandy beach?
They catch the attention of the neighboring Care/Rest home. SPOILER ALERT! The owners and residents of the care home in turn come to the attention of the Pineapple Port Bunch as they discover a trail of missing patient bits, and some financial shenanigans leading back to the care home.
A trail that connecting the two houses ends in the discovery of murdered remains of one of the owners of the Beach House in the attic with our crazy Pineapple gang.
A great time was had by the dogs on the trip. The Pineapple Portians always seem to uncover and revel in fun and mayhem wherever they go. Misdeeds by the neighbors uncovered, our friends can enjoy a few days vacation without paintbrush or tools in hand.
A Cozy Murder Mystery with Crazy seniors. There’s always a surprise, and lots of ironic twists.
The biggest sticks in the mud with this group are the younger couple.
A fun read if you like seniors and other people with pizazz!