Access Today Don't Drink The Water (E.J. Pugh, #7) Composed By Susan Rogers Cooper Released As Kindle

was pleased recently to find two more E, J. Pugh mysteries, as I thought the series had ended, Although it's been a while since I read the first several books, so I've forgotten details, I remembered I liked the feistiness of the main character, E.
J. I still enjoyed her character in this book, and also liked the delving into the background of her fraught relationship with her sisters.
However, there were some jarring editing issuestwice someone "clinched," not clenched, their teeth octagon was spelled octagan words were repeated in close proximity in a tedious manner when other words would do etc.
I've noticed this in other book series recentlyis less time, attention, being paid on editing Sigh, I don't like mistakes that bring me out of the feel of the work! We're EJ fans, but she seemed a little off here.
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We've read all of Susan Rogers Cooper's delightful stories, including the six Sheriff Milt Kovak books, the very difficult to find two Kimmey Kruse standup comedian stories, and the previous six EJ Pugh mysteries.
Obviously we like Cooper's great writing ability one would swear she can turn a soccer practice carpooling chore into an event of note with her descriptive and insightful commentary on everyday life.
All of her characters tend to be a little low profile, humble practitioners with an overdose of curiosity that leads to solving crimes, sometimes almost unwittingly.
Unlike her sheriff, who of course is paid to catch killers, Kimmey and EJ are strictly amateurs who depend on cajoling friends and policemen into helping move along reasonably good plots.


In this story, EJ is far from her home Texas, and is reunited with her three sisters with spouses/partners along in a contrived vacation in St.
Johns cooked up by her mother who wants to see the girls "get along", Much of the story revolves around their childhood goingson and/or their perceptions of each other's adult lives and situations in society.
Hence, the plot is almost a little secondary to the mental and verbal meanderings in the Virgin Islands setting, There is a murder or two to solve, and even if a bit improbable in total, we're hooked enough by a few real clues mixed in with several red herrings along the way to feel some suspense.
Indeed, we thought the ending fairly surprising, and hardly anticipated the ultimate culprit at all,

While we'd readily give almost all Cooper's booksstars, we don't think this one was one of her best maybe the unusual setting although entertaining in itself in some ways put our author off her usual game plan and with none of the regular supporting characters to help out, we didn't know anybody here either.
Still, the faithful will want to read this and while many of her others seemed better to me, allbooks are fun, worthwhile "reads" without demanding too much from us the reader but "enjoy".
Why not !!

A great mystery! I just adore her books and this one was especially good, If you haven't read any of her books yet you should! There is no love lost between novelist/sometime sleuth E.
J. Pugh and her three sisters: four highstrung Texas redheads who have made sibling rivalry an art form, In an attempt to ease their stretchedthin family ties, the ladies and their respective mates have rented a vacation home together on the Caribbean island of St.
John. But reconciliation must take a back seat to crim detection when a waterlogged corpse is discovered clogging up the cistern of their stunning beachfront house.
The body belongs to a former employee of the dentist husband of sister Liz, which leads the local police captain to surmise that the killer is a member of the clanespecially after an exploding count up from one.
E. J. , however, is not convinced. And, to the chagrin of her loving, longsuffering hubby, Willis, she's determined to salvage what's left of their vacation by exposing whomever is rapidly turning a family gathering into a wake in paradise.
EJ Pugh and her husband Willis go for a vacation to the US Virgin Island of St, John. Paradise with a serpent, or rather three sisters all of whom hates the other to some degree or another, Sibling rivalry, rum, the past, and a dead body make this a vacation to forget,

Taking EJ out of her natural habitat made this a tepid

mystery, The narrative voice of EJ is likeable as always but this mystery isn't up to Cooper's usual standards, With all the time spent on how awful each family member was and the looking back in time at how EJ and Cheryl fell out decades ago I began to wonder if I was reading a women's fiction or the cozy mystery it was billed as.
The mystery in this one was more or less a non event and treated as an after thought, This was the first of her books I don't normally read a series out of order but this one was so badly done I can't see spending time reading the earlier books in this series.
If it weren't a book club read I wouldn't have bothered, Susan Rogers Cooper is an American mystery novelist, A self proclaimed half fifth generation Texan half Yankee, she sets her novels in Texas the E, J. Pugh and Kimmey Kruse novels and in Oklahoma the Sheriff Milt Kovak novels, She is currently living in Central Texas, coming up with fresh new ways to get her characters into trouble, Susan Rogers Cooper is an American mystery novelist, A self proclaimed "half fifth generation Texan half Yankee", she sets her novels in Texas the E, J. Pugh and Kimmey Kruse novels and in Oklahoma the Sheriff Milt Kovak novels, She is currently living in Central Texas, coming up with fresh new ways to get her characters into trouble, sitelink.