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Title details for A Midsummer Night's Scream by Jill Churchill - Available

A Midsummer Night's Scream

#15 in series

by Jill Churchill
Susan Ericksen
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Murder's the thing in this new entry in the Agatha and Macavity award-winning series featuring single-mom sleuth Jane Jeffry. Jane's best friend, Shelley, and her husband buy a run-down theater, and donate it to the drama department of the local university. Shelley decides she'll try out new caterers for her husband's business on the theater's volunteers. She persuades Jane to come along to help judge. It's inevitable that they get to know the cast and crew of the breezy period mystery. But life soon imitates art and a cast member is found dead. Jane and Shelley, between tasty snacks, speculate about the crime and the cast. The police are convinced it was an accident. Jane and Shelley are sure it isn't, and the perp should pay the price.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Jane Jeffry Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 1, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792744153
      • File size: 158829 KB
      • Duration: 05:30:53

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Jane is a single mom and amateur sleuth. Jane's friend, Shelley, has devised a way to try out new caterers for her large soirees by having them cater small meals at the theater her husband donated to the local college. As the two women sit on the sidelines at a play rehearsal, a cast member is found dead. Naturally, they spring into action. Susan Ericksen lets the listener know the difference between the heroes and the villains through the tone of her voice, perhaps too much so. As narrator, she shows little sympathy for any character, and because she focuses on the unpleasant side of each, she loses the plot. J.P. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 18, 2004
      Single mom and amateur sleuth Jane Jeffry unmasks a bad actor in Churchill's entertaining 15th punningly titled cozy (Mulch Ado About Nothing
      ; Silence of the Hams
      ). The Chicago-area snoop joins friend Shelley Nowack in checking out caterers to feed the volunteers working at the theater that Shelley and her husband have recently bought. The current play is suffering from writer/director Steven Imry's poorly written script and off-putting manner, while the cast of mixed students and professionals, led by veteran stage actors John and Gloria Bunting, isn't much help. Jane and Shelley connect with the genial Gloria, who enthusiastically joins their needlepoint class. The other actors are mostly ciphers, until the violent death of one brings Jane's police boyfriend, Mel VanDyne, onto the scene. For the first time, Jane finds that Mel is actually seeking her insights, since the theater crowd is unknown to him and Jane and Shelley have met them all. Churchill has her formula down pat, mixing a more than serviceable plot with a nice combination of romance, domesticity and sleuthing. Lessons in needlepoint lore and technique and in catering dos-and-don'ts add interest. Agent, Faith Childs. (Nov. 1)

      FYI:
      Churchill is also the author of
      It Had to Be You (Forecasts, Feb. 23) and four other mysteries in her Grace & Favor series.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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