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    Clam Wake: A Bed-and-breakfast Mystery
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    Clam Wake: A Bed-and-breakfast Mystery

    Written by Mary Daheim

    Narrated by Lindsay Ellison

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    With the holidays gone and Hillside Manor almost empty, Innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn has a bad case of the blues. A housesitting stint at her aunt and uncle’s retirement home on Whoopee Island with cousin Renie seems like the ideal pick-me-up. But it isn’t long before a dead body pops up in their vicinity. Not surprising in an area full of older folks - until they learn it wasn’t a bad ticker that did in the victim, but a very sharp knife. With clouds of suspicion hovering over her and Renie, Judith reluctantly begins sleuthing. The victim reputedly didn’t have an enemy in the world - except for the killer. Digging for clams and answers, the cousins discover that retirement can be deadly - at least among the eclectic, eccentric residents of Obsession Shores.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateSep 16, 2014
    ISBN9781629236834
    Author

    Mary Daheim

    Mary Richardson Daheim is a Seattle native with a communications degree from the University of Washington. Realizing at an early age that getting published in books with real covers might elude her for years, she worked on daily newspapers and in public relations to help avoid her creditors. She lives in her hometown in a century-old house not unlike Hillside Manor, except for the body count. Daheim is also the author of the Alpine mystery series.

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    • 1/5
      Clam Wake, Mary Daheim#106Well it was a good thing I had no expectations from this author, because I wasn't disappointed; but I was both mildly surprised and disgusted.I was surprised because I liked the story and the conclusion: Two cousins (one who is a well known amateur detective) go to house sit for their Aunt & Uncle in order to cast a proxy vote against a sewer project on the small WA island where the Aunt & Uncle live. The cousins stumble upon a dead man, who it is mentioned looks like one of the cousin's deceased father. The residents are harboring (pun intended) a secret, a mysterious boat is seen late every night crossing across the inlet, and a woman w/ child-like mentality wanders around the community taking the residents' prescriptions.I was Disgusted because: the majority of the characters, 1 cousin, the aunts, and mother are snarky, mean, rude, b!+@#&s and I don't care if they have a "heart of gold/good heart"! You do not call your children or nieces "Idiot", "Dopey", "Dummy", "Dingbat". You also do not go out to dinner with someone and eat their dinner while they are away from the table..... Disgusting people.At the back of the book is a recipe for "Auntie Vance's Beef Noodle Bake", which would normally enticed me but the Author, herself is rude (although I guess she considers herself funny). Excerpts from the recipe: "Don't go cheap. Life's too short"; "Skip the lean stuff; get the grade with the most fat or you might as well eat a cardboard box"; "Green isn't as good for you as the other three--so what if they cost more"; "BIG Dash, don't skimp-- nobody lives forever"; "See above-- you've got eyes right"; "Plenty of it-- you got something against flavor"; "Whatever you call the damned thing"; "Forget you have arteries"; "If you're too dumb to figure it out, you shouldn't be reading this"; & "It's a Canadian product, so what. You want to start a border war"So the author herself is as rude & tacky as her characters, which obviously resemble her-very-own snarky self.What the author isn't: "funny". But I'll give the book 1 ★ for the story and non-main characters.I will not be reading her again
    • 1/5
      I found this book to be very annoying. The characters were rude and not for a purpose that enhanced the book, they were just rude. This book didn't keep my attention at all.
    • 3/5
      Perfect listening while I was raking leaves. I think one book by this author is enough for me. I tired fairly quickly of the supposed "humor" behind the words of the cousins and Judith's mother was just plain irritating!