Puzzles and Premieres by Elizabeth Pantley – a Review
Description:
When this club selects a book, magic happens!
This book club does more than read their books – they are absorbed right into the story to become the amateur sleuths! To exit the book and get back home, they need to solve the mystery and reach The End.
In this journey, they travel to a mountaintop ski town to experience the enchanting setting of a famous film festival. They’ll meet movie stars, producers, and directors. They’ll watch a film premiere, go skiing, and eat at fancy restaurants. It’s all very glamorous and exciting – until a famous actress disappears.
The book club is on the case! They discover clues in the most unusual way – by putting together enchanted jigsaw puzzles.
As usual, the club finds plenty of time to enjoy the unique setting of their journey, as they put together the mystery – one puzzle piece at a time.
Review:
Puzzles and Premiers by Elizabeth Pantley is the 10th book in her Magical Mystery Book Club series. Refresher: The magical library consists of 8 members, who choose a book, and they are transported into the story, with cozy mysteries that they have to solve. This is a fun, enjoyable, lighthearted series, with wonderful characters and a magical cozy mystery.
Paige and the club decide to travel to a fantastical film festival on a mountain setting in the beautiful town of Jigsaw Valley. The town is geared up for film festivals, rubbing shoulders with the rich & famous, meeting a friendly ghost, finding help from puzzles and missing pieces. It is winter, and they wear fancy ski clothes and dressier fashion at other main events; but they know that they are there to solve a mystery. Everything changes when an actress goes missing after one of the parties. The club works together to find the missing actress, which they do discover her dead on the mountain.
The group is always fun, with lots of humor throughout, as all of them are fantastic characters. I loved that Paige is now the leader, and of course we adore Frank (talking cat), who is always wonderful. They run into another female ghost, who lives in Jigsaw Valley, with no one able to see her; of course; the members of the club can see her. Mollie, our resident ghost, will help Gloria learn how to use her unseen ability. There were a few surprises along the way, which changes a few things at the end.
What follows is a another terrific, enchanting and fun addition to this series, which has all the members trying to find clues, that would find the real the killer. The club members are all riveting and fun. It’s a must read for fans of all ages who enjoy all kinds of various Mysteries.
Once again, Elizabeth Pantley gives us another wonderful story. I really enjoy this series, as it is so very entertaining. All the characters in the Magical Mystery Book Club are very good, with Paige leading the way. Puzzles and Premiers was a wonderful lighthearted fun magical mystery, which was very well written by Elizabeth Pantley. I look forward to the next book.
Reviewed by Barb
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