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Consigned to Death (Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries)
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Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks April 3, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312949529
ISBN-13: 978-0312949525
Product Dimensions:
6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
In Cleland's satisfying cozy debut, a New Hampshire antiques dealer, Josie Prescott, formerly employed by a big New York auction house, turns sleuth after a potential client, wealthy recluse Nathaniel Grant, is found stabbed to death in his mansion in Rocky Point, N.H. Cleland, who herself was once an antiques dealer in the Granite State, puts her insider knowledge to admirable use in depicting what is often a cutthroat business, from price setting and haggling to handling difficult clients and competitors. She also proves adept at shifting suspicion from one character to another, including a well-established professional rival of Josie's, his harpy of a wife and the slain man's greedy granddaughter. A few valuable paintings of uncertain provenance that have gone missing and a soupçon of romance for the wary Josie help raise the excitement level. Readers will want to see more of her. (Apr.)
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From Booklist
Josie Prescott left a good job at a New York auction house after blowing the whistle on her former employer in a price-fixing scandal. Her new business in a small New Hampshire coastal town is doing well. She is busy setting up an auction when the chief of police shows up to ask questions about a murder. A potential client is dead, and Josie has become a murder suspect. With a great deal to lose and no desire to leave her new life, she must clear her name. Using her knowledge of the art and antique trade, she starts searching for the killer with a bit of help from her lawyer and an enterprising young reporter. The fact that the chief of police is quite attractive--and Josie could use some romance--provides a bit of extra motivation. Josie is a nice addition to the ranks of female sleuths, and the antique-auction milieu provides an interesting background. Barbara Bibel
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Reader Reviews
This review is from: Consigned to Death (Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries) (Hardcover)
Josie Prescott is finally starting to get her life back on track. Two years after leaving New York, her new antique auction house in New Hampshire is beginning to do a brisk business. Things take a turn for the worse when police chief Alverez shows up in her warehouse one day. Nathaniel Grant, an elderly potential client, has been found murdered. Josie had an appointment with him that morning, but he wasn't home. Now, she's a suspect. Things get even worse then her fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. Josie is not going to prison for something she didn't do. In fact, she thought Mr. Grant was a nice, jolly man. She can't see why anyone would want to kill him. Poking around a little, she begins to hear rumors of more items he had for sale. Why hadn't Josie heard about them? Where are they now? What does it all mean? This book jumps right into the story. On page one, Mr. Grant is already dead, so all the reader knows about him is the impressions we get from the other characters. Things move along rapidly with several nice surprises and complications coming at a steady pace. There are several suspects, and the spotlight shifts to all of them at various points. I didn't have things figured out until the very end. Adding to that are the characters. All of them are well drawn and feel very real. Josie is a strong woman in spite of some emotional things she has been through in the last few years. Her employees at the auction house are fun. I wanted to get to spend more time with them and hope future books focus on them more. And, of course, the love interest is present. There's just a hint of romance in this book, with tantalizing promises of more to come. All this is enhanced by the strong writing style. The prose flow well, and the first person narration helps us know Josie better. The problems come in the second half. Antiques are not an area that interests me greatly, and they seemed to be more of the focus later in the book, slowing the story down. The real flaw, however, is the climax. After the wonderful build up, it's a little anti-climatic. Probably realistic, but disappointing. I like Josie and her friends enough to pay them a return visit. Unfortunately, this debut isn't as strong as the first half promises it will be.
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Consigned to Death (Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries)
by Jane K. Cleland
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