Indian summer that ends with murder

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	• A Murderous Glaze (Clay and Crime Mysteries, No. 1) Melissa Glazer Berkley, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Pottery and murder

Pottery shop owner Carolyn Emerson finds Betty Wickline murdered inside Carolyn's shop, Fire At Will, one night when she returns to check on some pottery. Maple Ridge, Vermont, is a small town. Once Sheriff John Hodges makes it known that Carolyn is his prime suspect, business falls off at her shop.

With the help of the members of her pottery group called the Firing Squad, including a reformed crook and a retired judge, as well as her assistant David, she begins gathering information into who had a motive to kill Betty. Carolyn soon finds out that she wasn't the only one who didn't like Betty, including the sheriff. But who disliked her enough to kill her?

This series is actually written by Tim Myers. I like all his cozy mystery series that I have read. I enjoyed this one a lot and will be looking for future books in this series.

I liked the Vermont setting, and setting it in a pottery shop really lent itself to this story and the cozy genre. Carolyn, her husband Bill, her assistant David, and his mother Hannah were all great characters, and I look forward to reading more books in this series to see what happens with each of them.

I highly recommend this book.

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another author to watch for

another good one, I like the characters and look forward to more in the series.

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Great Debut!

What a fantastic first book in a new series! I really enjoyed this clever little mystery. Great characters, good plot, and wonderful setting. I look forward to many more in this series.

Indian summer that ends with murder

I find it hilarious how any hobby or occupation can yield a mystery series but sometimes it adds a certain charm. I love arts and crafts, Vermont in the fall, or fall in general is my favorite season and this series embodies all my little favorite things into one. Murderous Glaze was a good effort for beginning of a new series, I have to admit it didn't take my breath away from the beginning, I had to warm up to it, but once I had proper time to sit down and read it I enjoyed it and couldn't wait to finish.

When a charming clay shop called Fire at Will becomes a murder crime scene of Betty Wickline, a woman no one seems to like in Maple Ridge - including the owner, everyone suddenly becomes a suspect. When time passes and clues start to surface Carolyn decides she has to take matters into her own hands of loose her credibility and her shop since everyone seems to think that maybe she did it herself. Personally I don't think someone would commit a crime in their own store but the friends and pesky sales people from nearby shops seemed to think otherwise. Carolyn launches on a crusade to save her business, make some great pots and fall decorations and find the dangerous lunatic who seems to ache for another victim. With the help of her husband, friends and Fire at Will students she tackles a dangerous task with small hope of victory or she will have to face a dark end of her career.

Fun and charming, the cozy atmosphere of chilly fall and various foods, snacks and coffee consumed along with small town gossip make for a relaxing read. I also enjoyed reading about various clay projects and learning a bit about the craft. The only problem I had was that there were a lot of guilty suspect and sometimes their names and characters would get mixed up in my head, but eventually it all got clarified as end came. I'm beginning book two tonight and hopefully the series gets even better.

- Kasia S.

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A new series takes shape-the debut of the Clay and Crime mysteries. Includes directions for a pottery project! In Maple Ridge, Vermont, Carolyn Emerson planned to ease into her golden years running her paint-your-own-pottery shop, Fire at Will. She never expected to uncover a dead body in the shop, and she certainly didn't plan on a drop in live clientele. Now it's up to Carolyn and her shop's pottery club, The Firing Squad, to help clear her name. But can she find a killer and more customers without her own brush with death?

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