This book was so much fun. Investigative journalist Scout Davis of Byron Bay gets the scoop and solves another crime. This is the second book I have read in this series and I hope there are more. Preferred this one to the first.

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secondhandrose | 3 altre recensioni | Oct 31, 2023 |

Mad men, bad girls di Maggie Groff

I loved this book. An Australian female central character in a quick, easy, fun read. I would definitely read more from this Scout Davis Investigation series.

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secondhandrose | 4 altre recensioni | Oct 31, 2023 |

Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute di Maggie Groff

This is a light mystery set in Byron Bay in NSW and in the Gold Coast in Queensland.
The heroine, a mature, feisty woman, is an investigative journalist who is asked to look into a cult which has apparently relocated to Australia from America.
At the same time, she is asked to look into something that looks like a case of petty vandalism by her sister, who teaches at a local private school.
The heroine handles everything very competently, with humour.
Between 2.5 and 3 stars.

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quiBee | 4 altre recensioni | Jan 21, 2016 |

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS di Maggie Groff

I wasn't sure whether this title by 2013 Davitt Award winner Maggie Groff (she scooped the Australian Sisters in Crime pool of Best Novel and Best First novel with MAD MEN, BAD GIRLS a few weeks ago) would actually be my cup of tea. It seemed that it would be "lighter" than my usual crime fiction fare. But then I chose it for my face to face reading group to read in the coming month, so in a sense I was committed.

I did have my doubts in the first 50 pages or so, but then things settled down a bit, and I must admit to enjoying both the plot and the plotting skill. The blurb on the front cover calls sleuth Scout Davis " a successor to Evanovich", and I thought I could detect a bit of Phryne Fisher there too.

I also enjoyed the quirky humour - who would call their cat Chairman Meow? - but underneath it all there is some serious, realistic characterisation and some careful plotting. There are a couple of other humour lines such as the guerilla knitting group that I thought were a bit superfluous but I guess they show another dimension of Scout's character.

I think this series has a future.… (altro)

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smik | 3 altre recensioni | Sep 18, 2013 |

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