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Jennifer Shane is happy running her own card-making shop but she's struggling to make a profit. When her aunt Lillian, her co-worker in the store shows her a lovely and inexpensive apartment in an old house, Jennifer moves in, never knowing that a woman's ghost is said to abide there too. Then, a much-loved member of Jennifer's card-making club, Maggie, dies in an apparent car accident. Afterwards Jennifer is surprised to receive a hand-made card from Maggie in the mail. In the card, Maggie said that someone is trying to kill her and that if anything bad happens, Jennifer must investigate. After her brother Bradford, the town's Sheriff dismisses the letter, telling Jennifer that Maggie did die in an auto accident, Jennifer and her aunt Lillian feel compelled to carry on their own investigation into Maggie's death to find the truth. Along with her business problems, various troubles with the men in her life and her family's tendency to overprotect her, Jennifer has her hands full. But soon the investigation begins to take on a darker tone when she finds that many people she knows had a reason to do Maggie in. Then she gets a menacing phone call that tells her to stop investigation or she'll be the next one to turn up dead. DEADLY GREETINGS is an absolutely wonderful new cozy series. It has all the required ingredients: an appealing, intelligent, good-humored heroine who is surrounded by good friends and a loving, if over-involved, trio of relatives. Her business is a new craft/hobby card-making shop and that opens the series to include new people visiting the store. There are also card-making hints included throughout the book that will tempt the reader to try a hand at it. The amateur investigators in DEADLY GREETINGS are realistic, everyday people, who look into their friend's death as best they can with no training. A few of the clues, including the ghost in the apartment, just fades out, but on the whole, the mystery was well thought out and unfolded nicely, and by the resolution, the readers will be totally satisfied with the story. I'm really looking forward to reading the next in this series!
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, July 2006
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