The Sleuth Sisters: A Sleuth Sisters Mystery Paperback – February 19, 2014

I really enjoyed this book. I did not want to put it down. I liked the pace of the story tellers and how they explained their parts. to me it was a unique style of writing. I would recommend this to mystery lovers.

A Fun book to read and a good mystery to solve. Three sisters join up to run a detective agency and resolve a 6 year old murder. What I liked best about this book is it's location is upper Michigan and Mackinac Island, the state of my birth and the Island I spent summers on. Also, the dynamic of three sisters is right on-i, too, am 1 of 3 sisters. And just a correction, pasties are Cornish. My grandparents immigrated from Cornwall and told the stories of the miners (like my grandfather) taking them down in the mines are for their lunch. My grandmother made them often.

I enjoyed the book even though I figured out less than a third of the way into it who the murderer was. Two sisters decide to open a private investigator business and begin to work on a cold case from six years ago where a brother and sister were beaten to death. The husband of the young woman who was killed was supposed to be the guilty person, but he had disappeared. The police followed no other leads at the time. Barb, the older sister, and Faye, the middle sister, formed the agency and did a good job developing leads and looking at everything that had happened at the time of the murders. Rory is the new chief of police, and he is a well trained detective from Chicago, so he is more open minded about looking at alternative possibilities. It soon becomes apparent that all is not as is should be when the sisters are followed and threatened. There is a third sister, the younger Retta. I found her to be very irritating, and I didn't like her at all. However, it isn't necessary to like all of the characters for a book to be good. Fortunately, the older sisters are able to keep her out of their business, which she is trying to take control of. By continuing to follow up with the information they uncover they are able to discover the murderer before he is able to kill Barb. The end seemed to be a little weak with the murderer being overpowered in an improbable way. I still would recommend this book for all cozy mystery fans. It is a true mystery and not a thinly disguised romance.

Some things in life never change. Like the dynamic between sisters. There is the smart one, the hard working one, and the pretty one. You know - the one who has everything fall her way just by batting her eyes. Usually the youngest one - the pampered baby. Yes, you can safely assume in my family, that wasn't me!At first, just like their detective agency, things seemed to be moving slowly, and I was in danger of losing interest. But I stuck with it, and I'm glad I did. The reader gets to know the sisters, almost well enough to feel like part of the family. I liked the realistic way the characters were portrayed. The sisters all have real life experience, attributes, thoughts and feelings. Loss of one's job, and early retirement of another results in them deciding to pool their talents, knowledge and interests, and open a detective agency. But the 2 older sisters are wanting to do this on their own, knowing they would lose control of their objectives and plan if Retta came in. She always managed to get her way! Then they finally get a call for a case that really intrigues them, but seems impossible to solve.Overall - I would recommend this for anyone. These are adult women, not 20-somethings in mini skirts and high heels, solving cases while partying. It is a good mystery, well written, and Barb must have proofed it, since errors are almost non-existent. I did pick up a couple though, and got out my correction kit, but black marker doesn't look too good on my Kindle screen.838 - one of my pet peeves. Someone says "the police really put him through the ringer". Not sure who made the error - the author, editor, proofreader, or the person who set it up for Kindle. I'm sure soon, there won't be many people left who knows where this phrase comes from, but in this context, the correct word is "wringer", as in wringer washing machines.3458 - She notices a truck following her, and the truck turned into an alley "behind me". Then in the next paragraph, she passes the alley, and someone grabs her from behind. How can she pass the alley that was behind her?

Although this is actually book 1 of the Sleuth Sisters mysteries, I read it after reading the second book of the series. Personally, I felt book 2 was better - that was when I could truly see the three different personalities really shine and come to life. Pill writes beautiful settings that made me remember Michigan from my youth, and miss it - and I HATE the cold! In this first book, the main protagonists, Barb, Faye and Retta (AKA the Sleuth Sisters), are described; each sister tells a part of the story, in her own words. Pill is using a very fun technique of storytelling, allowing the reader a chance to see things from three separate points of view. Barb is a grammar nut, secretly going out on "Correction Events" to correct grammar and spelling mistakes on public signs and sending anonymous letters to newspapers and magazines, while Faye is always looking for people and critters to help and mother. Retta is the social butterfly of the group, baby sister that annoys big sister Barb to no end - but is always ready to help.Cozy mysteries are fun to read; I did have it figured out very early on in the book, but enjoyed Pill's writing and wanted to see the various "side roads" she might introduce along the way. I wasn't disappointed! However, I did find book 1 to be a tad drier of a read, compared to the second book, "3 Sleuths, 2 Dogs, 1 Murder", so I'm glad I read it in that order. Each book is a stand-alone mystery, so readers can jump in anywhere and learn about the characters, what makes them tick. Pill has a beautiful way of describing the setting, allowing the reader to truly see the beauty one can find in Michigan, too. I recommend these books and am glad to add them to my personal bookshelves.

Sleuth Sisters is a well written humerous murder mystery, peopled with compelling and realistic characters: a remarkably intelligent cozy. Two sisters, Barbara, a retired 52 years old lawyer, and slightly younger Faye, recently made unemployed, together open a private detective agency. A third, Margaretta, and baby of the trio, is not invited to join them as she has an irritating habit of always taking over and altering any enterprise in which she becomes involved. However, with almost no client work other than the search for a man believed responsible for the deaths of his wife and her brother, the sleuthing couple reluctantly accept the help of their gregarious little sister and her ability to set up appointments with almost anyone in the community.The book is written in the first person, switching between the points of view of the three sisters, so the reader is able to know each woman from the inside out. Each is a distinctive and well defined character, different, one from the other, and very believable: Barbs, the intelligent, no nonsense unmarried eldest, the 'punctuation perfecter' with a secret habit of correcting grammatical mistakes on public buildings; Faye, good natured, hard-working and with a seriously disabled husband and the main income earner; and Getta, stylish, attractive, vivacious, interfering, always knows better. And the other protagonists are also well drawn, given believable lives - from the client, suffering from a brain tumour, looking for her brother, missing for six years, to the acerbic millionaire father of a murdered son and daughter, and the new Chief of police with an eye for the sisters - and everyone in between! Three excellent narrators, Judy Blue, Anne Jacques, and Laura Bednarski, each take the part of one of the sisters, reading the chapters told from that woman's perspective. A fine performance from all three.I was most fortunate in being freely gifted with a complimentary copy of The Sleuth Sisters by the rights holder, following my request via FAFY. Thank you so much. The book was involving, fun and intelligently written. I very much look forward to reading more about these three sleuthing sisters. Recommended.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I'd expected to. And for most of it there were no mistakes and it was easily going to be a 5* read. We got as far as 34% in before she wrote prefered and not preferred. I was so disappointed as she'd been doing so well up till then. We then had a clean run till 46% where she dropped a set of speechmarks then a further run till 61% when she wrote It and not I. Then sadly, we had loads from then on. I wonder if she swapped proofreaders or something. She wrote lightening and not lightning (when she'd got it correct earlier on), wrote I'm and not I've, this line loses a word, possibly anything ? "No last words naming her killer or like that." Then she did THAT thing that always guarantees I drop a book one star, and spelt her own character's name wrong, and not once but twice......Dymond morphed into Diamond and Zack to Zach !! Not good. We lost a space in AtWOZ and then by was used and not be. Such a shame as it was going SO nicely and I was so impressed by the writing.I did forget which sister was in charge of which chapter at times and needed to scroll back to check.It has some very funny remarks in it throughout which greatly appealed to my sense of humour.She mentions about how you know when people are lying depending which way they move their eyes upon answering. I have always wondered if it's still the same if you're lefthanded, if your brain works a different way or not. Barb is my favourite of the sisters as she's the one most like me in personality. I really got a kick out of her grammar and spelling correction habit. Plus she seems the most plain-spoken of the trio. I loved her thought on a receptionist in particular, "a doe-eyed brunette who looked more like Miss October than Ms Efficiency !!"Each sister brings something to the table and none of them are unlikable at all. I'll be sticking with this series for sure.

I liked the structure of the book, the three character types of the sleuthing sisters and the cold case they investigate. It may not be a masterpiece that goes in the modern canon, but it serves a clear purpose: to let the reader's mind relax and enjoy the dynamics between sisters.

make a good tv series - 3 sisters all different backgrounds trying to work together to solve mysteries.

I am inhibited by the awareness of one of the characters penchant for correct grammar, suffice it to say that this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship. The plot and characters superbly written. I like to find an author that surprises me, and look forward to reading more