Reviews

Murder Buys a T-shirt by Christy Fifield

kimlynn77's review against another edition

I really liked this one! Great characters ans an awesome parrot make for a good read!

seachell1's review against another edition

4.0

This was a fun cozy mystery. I'll read more of this series when they are published!

rebelbelle13's review against another edition

2.0

I was really hoping that this cozy, first in a new series with a fun theme, would bring something new to the table. Sadly, it didn't. It is so generic, in fact, that I started forgetting about the plot and the characters the moment I closed the book. Very little backstory is given on our sleuther, Glory, and we're tossed right into her life with little to hold on to. Characters are thrown at us from every direction, and they feel more like caricatures than actual people- the gay couple who owns an antique shop, the nosy and worldly news reporter, the hunky neighbor with the mysterious backstory, and the overly-obsessive-but-has-a-heart-of-gold football coach. There's nothing here to tell us that this is, in fact, Keyhole Bay, Florida- it could be anywhere in the Southern United States. Fifield also stumbles a bit with the plot. It felt clunky and the writing seemed to be poor in sections. The mystery was easy to figure out, and I wasn't ever in suspense or worried for Glory. The only thing I'll be taking with me here is the memory of the blue parrot who is possessed by Glory's uncle, and curses up a storm.

librarianlinda82's review against another edition

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well developed and likeable. I am looking forward to the next one if the author continues with Glory Martine.

git_r_read's review against another edition

5.0

This is sort of a paranormal mystery. The spirit of Glory's Uncle Louis is still with the souvenir shop in Florida Glory inherited. Glory knows better than to tell anyone or they will think she's as crackers as the ones she feeds Bluebeard the parrot.
The mystery is a good one and I enjoyed watching Glory work towards figuring out who the killer was.
I want to live in this town of Keyhole Bay, Florida. I want to know these people that Glory shares the town with..at least some of them.
Five shiny tourist diamonds.....

lakecake's review against another edition

4.0

I loved the setting and the characters, and both mysteries were very intriguing and moved at a good pace. I felt the murder mystery was really believable, and Glory’s part in it was more reasonable than what you find in most amateur sleuth stories. I wish the family mystery was pushed along a bit more, but that’s for future installments I guess. There were a couple of bits that didn’t hold together—why the break-in, what would the person have been looking for? Why would they claim inconclusive results on a blood test from a rollover accident?—but overall well done.

wraithofbooksandbones's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

staticdisplay's review against another edition

4.0

I really liked the premise in the beginning. Glory runs a gift shop, and her parrot seems to be a messenger for her uncle, long since deceased, who may be rearranging items in her store and keeping track of unsavory goings-on in town as a ghost who refuses to pass on. I liked Glory and her friends, and I enjoyed reading about their little get-togethers. the middle bogged down a bit for me, because it really wasn't clear that the car accident was anything more than an accident, and I felt like some pieces were missing to justify Glory's intensity about investigating. the people arguing with Glory made more sense than Glory, basically. but, the ending was pretty satisfactory (albeit rather dramatic). I want to keep reading this series.

chuckdolton's review

3.0

Good read fot start of the series. The parrot is hillarious

bparker91's review against another edition

3.0

I wanted to like these characters but they just seemed to be lacking a little bit of depth. I also found some of the chapter cuts to be arbitrary and odd. There could have been more breadcrumbs along the way to keep the reader engaged. I will probably finish the series, but all-in-all the writing came across as amateurish for me.