
Signet - Signet
Release date: 2008-03-04
Paperback
Author: Nancy Martin
Mystery And Suspense Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Mystery/Suspense, Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General




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.
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.