“If you’re a fan of Susan Santangelo’s humorous Baby Boomer Mystery series, Dieting Can Be Murder, the seventh book in the series, won’t disappoint. Carol Andrews needs to lose the weight she gained on her recent second honeymoon. But where Carol goes, dead bodies follow, and such is the case when another dieter in her weight loss group is murdered. Of course, Carol can’t help but start nosing … around to find the killer. After all, the woman collapsed and died on top of her.”
—Lois Winston, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Critically Acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series
There’s a little too much to love about Carol Andrews these days, thanks to the extra calories she consumed during her second honeymoon in Florida with her husband, Jim. Determined to shed the extra pounds before the birth of her first grandchild, Carol joins Tummy Trimmers, a new, holistic approach to fighting—and winning—the battle of the bulge. But her weight loss regimen is interrupted by another group member, who collapses on Carol right after completing a meditation exercise to help lose weight, and dies. When the evidence points to murder, the always curious Carol can’t resist adding sleuthing to her personal weight loss routine.
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I like a stand-alone book, and this is one. I loved the chapter titles and have recommended this book to friends. Totally entertaining!
Have enjoyed other books in the series, but this one seemed like it was trying too hard. Not as enjoyable as the rest.
I didn’t want to give it even one star … I forced myself to finish it, hoping it would get better. After finishing about 10% of the book I found myself hoping Carol Andrews was the victim of the murder. What an annoying, self-centered, unsympathetic character! I can’t believe enough people have read these books about this character that there are 7 books about her. (If her husband killed her, I’d say it was justifiable homicide.) The best thing about the books were the blurbs at the beginnings of the chapters.
A funny way of looking at the dreaded “Diet”
Nice to have mature aged hero’s.
Fun to read,enjoyable
A good story that is carried on a bit too long. The main character acts like an eighth grader. (Sorry eighth graders) BFF, that are depicted in the novel, can be cruel with their words and actions to one another. Not at all believable.
As a baby boomer and grandmother myself, I could definitely identify with the pounds gained, the measure-of-success white jeans and the people who we tolerate/who tolerate us in our lives. This is realistic and whimsical, heartwarming and entertaining. Worth the read.
Love Carol, Jenny, Mark, Jim, sister Rose & all the others.
If you have ever dieted, you will relate to all the wonderful witticisms. If you haven’t ever dieted, you will learn what it feels like. I loved this story!! I give it 6 stars.
A little too much about nothing. Just her rambling. But the story was good.
Boring.
Loved it! Funny, entertaining, down to earth.
Easy reading with interesting characters and unusual plot twists.
I gave up on this book about a third of the way through because I found the characters so irritatingly vapid. Perhaps because I’m older, reading about retirees displaying the mentalities as twenty-somethings made me think this was a young female author’s attempt to write about retirees as she envisioned them. Or perhaps as cliches. Whatever the reason, after dealing with two dimensional characters and especially a cutesy protagonist who sound more like a ditsy high school teenager and finding myself rolling my eyes like my granddaughters as long as could, I gave up. Perhaps younger readers might appreciate this more than I did.
The writing isn’t literary, by any means, but it’s worth reading for the chapter titles alone. It’s truly a cozy.
Boring
Same ole same ole read from book to book, main character is fat busy body. It’s a book that is just easy to read.
It was great
Love me it and it seem to capture me to learn what is happening