French Pastry Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery
Written by Leslie Meier
Narrated by Karen White
3.5/5
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Tinker's Cove is abuzz with excitement when Norah, the queen of daytime TV, comes to town and selects Lucy and her pals to be featured in her "Women Who Make a Difference" episode. In recognition for their charitable work, the ladies and their husbands are awarded a dream vacation in Paris, complete with classes at Le Cooking School with renowned pastry chef Larry Bruneau. But their bon voyage is cut short when Lucy discovers the chef in a pool of blood on the second day of class... If she's going to enjoy her vacation, she'll have to unpack her sleuthing skills and clear her name. But will she be able to track down a killer more elusive than the perfect macaron?
Leslie Meier
Leslie Meier is the acclaimed author of the Lucy Stone Mysteries and has also written for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. She lives in Harwich, Massachusetts, where she is currently at work on the next Lucy Stone mystery.
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Reviews for French Pastry Murder
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really fun mystery, set in Paris, about a black market ring that involves American tourists. Lots of interesting tidbits about French culture.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So this is how it's like to read a book by an author so unconnected with the rules of fiction writing that she begins to remind us of the Agatha Christie of The Postern Of Fate fame. That's quite ironic as Leslie Meier here tipped her hat to the Great Dame and before has lifted an entire plot for her convenience. My jaw dropped when reading the hodgepodge that was part of the ending of this book. It was, bar, none, the worst finale to a book that I've ever read. Ever. Easily. But it was fun as well. I could have rated the book 1 or 2 stars, but instead went for 4 because the start was strong and because my favorite character of the series, Bill, appears the most of any of the books in this one. But the weirdness that permeated the book was impossible to dismiss. There were little things at first, here and there, that the author let get printed. There was a lot of rubbish about French society and culture. There was Bill being decidedly thick at times, and given rotten dialog to spout. There was Lucy Stone counting down to one IN FRENCH, at a time under stress. The entire plan of the American group, their destination choices and shopping concerns were weird. There were amazing coincidences. I could go on and trust me I will to some extent. There's Lucy thinking Gainsbourg as sexy, and being very much anti French and pro American over no brainer benefits like extended holidays, which France has, and the USA don't. I can't even picture Serge, the guys that bones Elizabeth, realistically as 'ridiculously handsome' because there's no accounting for what's going on in Lucy's brain, and by projection, the mind of the writer. The one thing that rivals all the conveniences, and the unbelievable ending was the fact that Lucy Stone never got close to solving the murders. The two murders are almost unrelated. Good. We're on firm ground. Laurence gets stabbed, stabilizes in the hospital, then is murdered successfully this time. But there's no explanation over what subterfuge the murderer used to escape notice and forge an alibi. I could go on and on. The ending doesn't even give us the closure of the group returning to America. There's just a footnote about Elizabeth as she finds herself at the apex of a love triangle. I never thought a book could rival movies like Plan 9 and Manos as the best worst work I've ever experienced. That's because book editors have tremendous say in the final cut than their movie counterparts. I'm giving the book 4 stars, but all of the bad things I've said about it, if viewed in a given mood, can pass for a funny read. Unintentional, inept but still stunningly eccentric.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good! Lot of political info about the French--very involved book yet quite exciting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Americans are so accustomed to the freedom and rights that we have in the USA that sometimes we fail to realize that those rights are ours only as long as we remain on US soil. When traveling to other countries, these rights do not travel with us. This fact is made abundantly clear to Lucy Stone and her traveling companions when they are linked to an attempted murder in France. They are shocked to discover that they really have no rights and even the US consulate cannot help them. Their passports are taken and they are forbidden to leave the country. Lucy decides to help move matters along by doing some sleuthing of her own. But things take a turn for the worse, and Lucy finds herself in more trouble with the local police. Author Leslie Meier does not disappoint with this newest book in this charming series. Delightful continuing characters in an intricate plot will keep you reading until the very end, and then leave you wishing to read the next not-yet-published novel.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Lucy Stone and three of her friends are awarded a two-week trip to Paris, with their husbands, in recognition of the money they have raised to make sure every child in Tinker’s Cove has clothes and supplies for school. A week of cooking classes from a French chef is part of their prize. While there, things do not go as planned when they get associated with a murder and their passports are confiscated.Of course the French justice system is different from that in the US but the US representative they spoke with was not very helpful. There would have to have been a lot more detail about the sites they visited for them to rise to the shallow level. Situations were unrealistic. For example, someone who did not speak French and was never in Paris before would be unlikely to take a solo bicycle ride across the city at night. I thought the story line was rather thin. Their accommodation situation was strange. Her friend Sue was totally self-centered; she may have known a lot about French cooking but her trip mates did not. There were too many untranslated French words used throughout the book. Thankfully, the book was a fast read so I didn’t waste an excessive amount of time on it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I usually like how Leslie Meier weaves in political and social issues into her mysteries, but I think she was a little out of her depth here. Also, I don't think this book took as much advantage of its Paris setting as it could have. Lucy and her friends spent a LOT of time in their apartment.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5French Pastry Murder by Leslie MeierWanted to read this book in hopes it'd have tips on how I can make my husband his favorite apple turnovers-healthy style.Have read many of the author's other works and have enjoyed the books.Have been to Paris once and can't wait to see the characters view. Book starts out where Lucy Stone and her husband along with other couples have won a trip to Paris for 2 weeks and participate in a cooking class because of their charity work with the hat and mitten fund.Her daughter, Elizabeth is in Paris studying under a world famous chef and is excited about the visit. The accommodations are a let down but they are in the city of lights! Glad when Bill and Lucy strike out on their own to discover new things. When the chef is found stabbed their passports are all held from leaving the country.The place they are staying is ransacked from the police-they think the chef might have been laundering money or some other black market schemes and now they are all drawn into the investigation. Lucy gets help from the others as the clues come in and they start to make sense of it all.Murders and more investigations and help from their reporter friend Richard. Book wasn't really what I thought it would be, because I read the prior books. Mentions a lot of locations but doesn't describe what they saw and did at the locations.I received this book from The Kennsington Books in exchange for my honest review