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Rent Wicked Weaves: A Renaissance Faire Mystery
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Published: Sep 2008
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 272
Synopsis
First in the Renaissance Faire mystery series featuring craft apprentice and sleuth Jessie Morton.
INCLUDES RENAISSANCE RECIPES AND FUN FACTS!
Assistant professor Jessie Morton spends her summers at the Renaissance Village honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunnit.
This summer Jessie is the apprentice to Mary Shift, a basket-maker with a dark past as well as incredible weaving skills. One day a man is bid a deadly fare-thee-well with Mary's signature weave around his neck. IIt's up to Jessie to spring Mary from the stocks of the Myrtle Beach police station. Yet innocence is hard to prove in a place where there's a fine line between reality and good theater—and history is bound to repeat itself.
Reviews
Though the setting is interesting, the story line was choppy, and the characters a mess. The main character, supposedly an ***istant professor working on her doctorate, apparently has the hormones and self control of a teenager. OK, we get that she lusts after the unlikely named hero, Chase Manhattan, but the two of them rolling in the hay, sometimes literally, every few pages is ridiculous and obviously does nothing to further the storyline, which is thin at best. The basketweaving information was interesting, if it's accurate. I won't be bothering with any more books in this series.