This Paperback Book item from Poisoned Pen Press was reviewed on 4-Nov-2008.
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1) Paperback Book Island Intrigue: Island Style Mystery by Poisoned Pen Press. Sabrina Dunsweeney thought she was going to get a month of rest and relaxation when she went to Comico Island to get away from her Ohio teaching job. She never expected to find herself caught between two feuding families.
The Tittletots own most of the island. Rolo Wrightly was accused years ago of stealing a neighbor´s silver and setting her house on fire. Rolo disappeared never to be heard from again, except for a couple letters to his mother.
Sabrina discovers he has recently reappeared on the island. Something not many people know. Not long after she talks to him he is found murdered.
The island´s police force leaves a lot to be desired, so Sabrina decides to do some sleuthing. Can she figure out who killed Rolo and why without putting herself in danger?
I loved this first book in a new series. I´ve read the author´s other series and enjoyed it. I can´t wait to read additional books in this series. I found it to be a fast cozy mystery to read. I kept wanting to know what was going to happen next. Sabrina is a complex character that pulls you in from the start. I loved the island setting. I wish it were a real place to visit. I highly recommend this book!
¤ 2) Paperback Book Island Intrigue: Island Style Mystery by Poisoned Pen Press. This is a classically framed, traditional mystery. It has everything you need and want in a comfort read. Odd and strange characters, a possible ghost or two, an island community and a flawed protagonist. Nice; nothing to upset one and there´s enough mystery and conflict to bring the reader back to the story after you´ve laid it down a time or two.
Sabrina Dunsweeny is a teacher in a school in Indiana. Her mother has just died and Sabrina has had a cancer scare. So she trundles off to a place called Comico Island. Now Sabrina leans toward hypochondria so she begins to fit in quickly in a place where outsiders are routinely viewed with suspicion. Perhaps because she´s a teacher, she manages to get a lot of island residents telling her all sorts of things right away.
One of the residents she meets right away, is Lima Lowery. Lowery is a great story-teller and he is able to explain the pirate Sabrina spies in her garden-a 200 year old fellow named Walk-the-Plank Wrightly. He´s also ready to explain just about everything else in the universe, given half a chance. Sabrina has a bird whom she talks to a good deal. There are also a number of cats and dogs and young children around. And a resident drunk and ne´re-do-well. If you know about the Hatfields and McCoys, you are familiar with rural feuds. The Wrightlys and the Tittletots are cast in much the same mold.
The story, with colonial historical disagreements, modern feuds, a jot or two of underhanded doings and political shenanigans, with a murder chucked into the mix and you have enough intrigue to last a generation or two. It´s all served up with good humor and decent style, but ISLAND INTRIGUE isn´t likely to remain long in your memory. No matter.¤ 3) Paperback Book Island Intrigue: Island Style Mystery by Poisoned Pen Press. All her life Sabrina Dunsweeney has been under the control of her alcoholic domineering mother who chose her career for her and made it impossible for her to date. After her mother dies she finds a lump in her breast that turns out to be benign. After surviving these two traumas, Sabrina needs some time off to relax and find out who she is. She travels to the small and isolated Comico Island and rents a house from Nellie Wrightly.
Her arrival coincides with the election for the President of the Sanitary Concessionary, a political office that often provides a stepping stone to the state senate. Brad Tittletott is running unopposed even after a fire burns down his office and his childhood friend Rollo Wrightley returns to the island for the first time in years. He left after being accused of committing a crime by Brad and his mother. Rollo wants justice for being railroaded fifteen years ago but before he can reveal the secrets that the Tittletotts want to keep hidden, he is murdered. Sabrina, who met and liked him does some investigating independent of the police in the hopes of unearthing a very disturbed killer.
ISLAND INTRIGUE is a fascinating amateur sleuth tale written by an author who is loaded with talent. Her ability to describe island life and the residents who live there adds an exotic dimension of depth to a fascinating who done it. Sabrina is a person trying to find herself and while doing so make a place for herself with the islanders who come to consider her a friend. This reviewer looks forward to more mysteries starring this multi-dimensional heroine.
Harriet Klausner
¤ 4) Paperback Book Island Intrigue: Island Style Mystery by Poisoned Pen Press. Sane people are boring, Sabrina Dunsweeney tells her friends when they try to convince her that she is crazy to travel to tiny, isolated Comico Island to recover from a cancer scare and the sudden loss of her mother.
Sabrina, who has a tendency toward hypochondria and very bad cooking, soon meets Lima Lowry, the tallest tale-teller on the island. He tells her all about the pirate Walk-the-Plank Wrightly, who died two hundred years ago and who has recently made a cameo reappearance in Sabrina´s rose garden.
Lima invites her to a campaign fund-raising tea party at the prestigious Tittletott House, where Sabrina is surprised to find the stoic islanders clutching monstrous neon teapots as they begin a mass stampede toward the lone bathroom, spurred on by an unexpected ingredient in the chocolate scones. It seems someone is determined to ruin Brad Tittletott´s campaign for the most coveted title on the island: president of the sanitary commission. Everyone is sure it´s the crazy Wrightlys, who have hated the Tittletotts for centuries, but could it be a member of Brad´s own family?
Then Sabrina finds the ghostnow truly dead in her rose garden and is soon drawn into a maze of deadly island intrigue!
Island Intrigue starts a fascinating new series.
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