Retirement is a time for knitting, gardening, and an occasional quiet lunch with friends, according to Kathleen Williamson. Her sister Andrea has an altogether different point of view. When the sisters go to the Canaan Valley to search for paintings mentioned in a document found in an old hotel once owned by their grandparents — paintings that might be Monets — Andrea immediately becomes involved … involved in tracking down a murderer. Kathleen would much rather be looking for the paintings, but she goes along with Andrea, since the victim was their hotel-keeper, murdered just down the hall from their room. The question is: Does the murder have something to do with the elusive paintings?
There are many clues and many suspects, including hotel staff, valley residents, and the mysterious foreigners who come from the Eastern Seaboard for skiing. There are also many types of danger — icy roads, sub-zero temperatures, and a killer who doesn’t care how many people die in the attempt to make sure the right ones do.
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Fun book with believable characters in an unusual story line. Regular women with exciting lives. Enough mystery and just the right touch of romance! Clean language and actions.
Glacially paced, with an incoherent plot that was mostly ignored.
A great easy mystery read
This was an easy read. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and the scenery sounded like someplace I would like to visit. I always enjoy these cozy mysteries with older women in them.
It was boring the little I read of it. It did not hold my interest at all.
Was OK. Bit wordy, and predictable. Interesting premise. Characters OK, believable.
Wonderful and intriguing plot line, follow these sisters as they get a little help from their kitties and their (deceased) Nana.
Pleasant read implausible
I liked it a lot.
Really enjoyed this book, can’t wait to get more like it.
Easy reading.
It can’t be described as a great work of literature but it was a comfortable story to read.
Cozy Mystery. Ski resort setting. Okay characters. Found killer so book could be called stand-alone but left central mystery unsolved for next book in series. Frustrating.
Great book
I found the writing somewhat stilted, I think the writer will improve
Good read!
Great! Can’t wait to read the next one
Cute, easy read with lots of red herrings to keep you guessing until the end. All of the suspects are plausible so the culprit isn’t exactly a surprise, but it really could have been any of them.
Enough with the Monets, though. Our heroine is positively obsessed with them which makes her seem like a dotty old lady, something she definitely is …
As a 70 year old woman, I enjoyed the mature women who had distinct personalities and solved the case!
Put it as one of my favorites and told friends