- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (Feb 2 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312612184
- ISBN-13: 978-0312612184
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #341,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Cora Felton...is a charming heroine, very much in the Miss Marple/Jessica Fletcher vein....The Puzzle Lady novels are...gosh darned good." - Booklist"
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It’s the battle of the century when Minami, the Sudoku Lady, shows up in Bakerhaven, Connecticut, to meet Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, whose sudoku books have just edged Minami’s off of the Japanese bestseller list. Before the rivals have a chance to square off, a killer strikes, and a sudoku puzzle is found at the scene of the murder. Now it’s a fight to the finish to see who can unmask the killer.
Cora is eager to undo her Japanese counterpart---at least until the poor woman is arrested for murder and Cora realizes that she accidentally framed her for the crime. As if that weren’t frustrating enough, the publicity of her arrest drives Minami’s sales through the roof!
Now it’s up to Cora to clear her rival’s name, get her off the bestseller list, and trap the real killer, but she’d better do it fast, before the cops find out what Cora did, and she winds up facing more jail time than Minami.
Boasting an entertaining, fun-filled mystery, as well as several satisfying crossword and sudoku puzzles, the Puzzle Lady’s latest adventure makes for a rollicking good read.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another Entertaining Puzzle Lady Book, Feb 19 2010
By Mark Baker - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Hardcover)
Cora is shocked when she finds out that Minami shows up in town looking for her. Turns out that Minami is known in Japan as The Sudoku Lady, and one of Cora's Sudoku books has recently topped hers on the best seller list.
Then a dead body turns up in town. It looks for all the world like a tragic accident, but Minami insists it was murder and challenges Cora to a race to solve the crime. Then a second body turns up, and Minami is arrested for the crime. What's behind the latest murder spree? Is Minami really guilty?
As always, this is a fast passed, fun book. While we weren't quite back in the old patterns of previous books, we were downright close. (Please, make Dennis a victim in the next book!) The book seemed to bog down in the middle with too many scenes of Cora going from person to person and getting frustrated she wasn't learning anything new.
But things picked up in the final 100 pages, and the climax was once again over the top, but in a fun way. The solution was logical and not quite out of thin air. And the humor and word play was as constant a part of the book as always.
While not the best entry in the series, this book will certainly entertain the many fans of the series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing, Mar 9 2010
By Heather Lynn Anderson - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Hardcover)
I waited patiently for this book to come out, and waited even longer for it to come to my local library. I am SO happy I did not buy this book. This is by far the worst Puzzle Lady book and a huge disappointment to her fans. The overall story is convoluted at best, and boring at worst, and the "Secrets" revealed throughout are transparent and things 5 year old would've guessed. I noticed in the last two installments the theme of minimizing Cora's interaction with her niece, which I think is a huge disservice to both characters. Parnell, go back to the old formula! It worked!!! This isn't working!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
enjoyable lighthearted whodunit, Feb 5 2010
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady: A Puzzle Lady Mystery (Hardcover)
In Japan, Minami "the Sudoku Lady" is shocked when an American pushes past her to number one on her country's bestseller list. Stunned and ashamed by this dishonor that that some ancient New England crone Cora "The Puzzle Lady" Felton has moved ahead of her, Minami accompanied by her teenage niece Michiko comes to Bakerhaven, Connecticut to challenge the foreign upstart in a puzzler's duel. Minami is unaware that Cora is the front for her shy recently married niece Sherry Carter who creates the crossword and sudoku puzzles.
Cora as the Wicked Witch of the West wants to ignore the Japanese diva, but Sherry persuades her otherwise. However, before the duel between the Japanese puzzle champion and her American rival can occur, Police Chief Harper informs the aunt and niece that Mrs. Ida Fielding was murdered, but not by her spouse who was in jail sleeping off a drunken binge and no puzzles to assist on the investigation. Harper wants Cora to help anyway because she is very good at finding clues. Minami sees them and follows them. As the two puzzle-makers compete, Minami is arrested for murder so her books move back to number one while Cora and Sherry try to prove the visitor is innocent and Michiko asks them to take their time so she can go mall shopping without adult supervision.
The latest Puzzle Lady tale is the usual enjoyable lighthearted whodunit in which the mystery takes a back seat to the cast. This time the aunt-niece relationship is double the fun as the Japanese equivalent to the Connecticut Yanks invades New England. With several Will Shortz sudoku and crossword puzzles included, readers who enjoy a fluffy entertaining cozy will want to watch the battle of the puzzle warriors with their nieces as their squires.
Harriet Klausner
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