not the best in the series

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	• A Crazy Little Thing Called Death: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery Nancy Martin NAL Hardcover, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I love this author

I have every book in this series; love them all. They are witty and romantic and funny.

not the best in the series

A Crazy Little Thing Called Death by Nancy Martin is the sixth novel in the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries. The Blackbird family is an old one, and fairly high up in Philadelphia High Society. But the family has been cursed since colonial times - each of the family's daughters will love bad boys and become young widows. The three daughters of this generation of the Blackbird family have all fallen under the curse - they are all attracted to bad boys, and are all young and beautiful widows. They are also impoverished, as their parents spent off the family fortune and fled overseas, leaving he girls with multimillion dollar tax bills and nothing to pay them with. The sensible and sensitive red headed sister, Nora has agreed to marry her Mafia prince. Eldest sister, the blonde earth mother Libby, wants to plan the wedding of Nora's dreams, but is only being a pain. And dark haired sister, the horse crazy and athletic Emma, has started taking strange phone calls from men at all hours, leading her sisters to wonder if she has turned to the world's oldest profession to make ends meet. In the midst of all of this family madness, a movie star from a famous Philly society family vanishes and is declared dead. She leaves Nora a very interesting bequest. And her family makes the Blackbirds look normal. Did they kill her? Where might she possibly be - either dead OR alive?

I really enjoy this series, and have read them all, starting with How to Murder a Millionaire and going right on through Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery (Blackbird Sisters Mysteries) and I really wish that I could rate this one higher.

I have a couple of issues with it:
Nora and Mick need to either commit or break up ~ I would be content with either one, but the off and on nature of their relationship is getting really old this many books into a series

I would like to see both Libby and Emma be more fully developed as characters, particularly Emma, who seems to be intriguing

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Death on the Main Line

I love Nancy Martin's Blackbird Sisters series. Having read all of Gillian Robert's Amanda Pepper series, I was well prepared to stay in Philadelphia for another series--this time in wealthy Bucks County and the even more wealthy Main Line. The idiosyncracies of the impoverished Blackbird sisters (I cannot name a favorite-they all suprise the reader), the not-what-they-seem-to-be aristocrats of Philadelphia, and the inclusion of the illegitimate son of a New Jersey crime boss give Ms. Martin plenty of room to keep coming up with new twists and turns and she does it with great success and flare.

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FABULOUS!

I loved this book! This book is intelligent and humorous. She knows her stuff when it comes to style, too. The characters have great personalities.

Not Her Best

While this was a good story, I found Nora to be really annoying in this installment of the series. It's time to end the relationship between her and Mick and move on. Their relationship is no longer fun to read about.

Also, with such strong characters as Nora, Emma and Lexie, I don't know why the author continues to force the idiotic Libby down our throats. The character is not quirky -- she's a pain in the neck and I found myself skipping over pages of her idiocy. Find her a man, pack her up and move her out of town. There are plenty of better characters to spend pages on.

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Impoverished Philadelphia heiress Nora Blackbird has agreed to wed Mick Abruzzo, son of New Jersey's most notorious mobster, leaving the city's bluebloods in shock. Then Nora and her sisters get some ominous news-Sweet Penny Devine, ex-Hollywood starlet and daughter of the Philadelphia Devines, has mysteriously disappeared. Even stranger, her family wants her declared dead pronto. Could someone have plotted her final act? Now it's up to the Blackbird sisters to snoop among the snooty-until they uncover the truth.

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