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No Charm Intended (A Cora Crafts Mystery) (edició 2017)

de Mollie Cox Bryan (Autor)

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:"The perfect weekend getaway: crafting, food, and a murder or two!" ??New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon
Settling into her new life and career in small-town Indigo Gap, North Carolina, Cora Chevalier is preparing to host a "wildcrafting" retreat at her Victorian home. But a specter hangs over the venture when beloved local nanny Gracie Wyke goes missing. Amidst leading their guests in nature hikes, rock painting and making clay charms, Cora and her business partner, Jane, team up with Gracie's boyfriend, Paul, to launch their own investigation into her disappearance when the local police prove unhelpful.
Cora and her crafters take Paul in, believing he is in danger and not the suspect police have made him out to be. However as they uncover new clues and a body turns up at a local abandoned amusement park, Cora and Jane begin to question their decision. With more questions than answers arising, is Cora crafty enough to untangle a knot that could put an innocent in jail??and permanently destroy her reputation?
Praise for Mollie Cox Bryan's Mysteries
"Scrapbookers and hobby cozy fans will enjoy this delightful holiday escape." ??Library Journal on A Crafty Christmas
"Light and full of positive solutions... A great entry in a fun series." ??RT Book Reviews on Death of an Irish Diva
"A font of ingenuity...superb entertainment." ??Mystery Scene Magazine on Scrapbook of Secrets
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Títol:No Charm Intended (A Cora Crafts Mystery)
Autors:Mollie Cox Bryan (Autor)
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Just as Cora Chevalier and her friend Jane start hoping that their latest crafting retreat will go off without a hitch, an ominous text message, a missing nanny and a murder get in the way. Can the pair run the retreat and work to ferret out a killer? If anyone can, it's Cora and Jane!

No Charm Intended is the second book in the Cora Crafts Mystery series. I like the two main characters. Cora is enjoying her new life in Indigo Falls, NC, while still trying to work through anxiety caused by her former job at a women's shelter. Jane is raising her daughter London after leaving an abusive marriage. Both are strong, independent, intelligent women who can run a business and teach others how to make beautiful handcrafts. The idea of craft retreats in a huge, victorian house sounds awesome! I live in western NC and wish Kildare House were real! I would book a retreat weekend in a heartbeat!

The mystery portion of the plot is interesting and engaging. I enjoyed the fact that even the retreat guests got involved in sleuthing. The subplots of crafting and the video game industry didn't overpower the mystery but added depth to it. I enjoyed the fact that a portion of the action was at the abandoned Wizard of Oz theme park in NC.The park actually exists. It closed in 1980 but opens for special occasions and a once a year fall tour, "Autumn in Oz.'' It was nice to have it featured in a cozy mystery!

The book also includes some craft instructions and tips related to projects the retreat guests made at Kildare House during the story.

I enjoyed this second installment in the Cora Crafts Mystery series even more than the first and I am definitely looking forward to the next!

Mollie Cox Bryan is also the author of the Cumberland Creek Mystery series. To find out more about the author and her books, check out her website: http://molliecoxbryan.com/ ( )
  JuliW | Nov 22, 2020 |
No Charm Intended by Mollie Cox Bryan is the second book in the Cora Crafts Mystery series. I love crafting and I love cozy mysteries, so this book is perfect for me. Cora has relocated to Indigo Gap, North Carolina, to start a crafting retreat business. She lives in the large Victorian property where she holds her retreats. Her friends Jane and Ruby also live on the property, and teach classes for the retreats.

Cora is holding a four day retreat, the second one she has hosted in her new business. The day before the start of the retreat, Jane's babysitter Gracie, goes missing. Despite wanting to attend to her guests, Cora finds her self more and more involved in the hunt for Gracie, especially after a second person is reported missing.

This book is really like two intertwined stories. There is the story about the craft retreat, and there is the story about Gracie. Gracie's disappearance appears to be connected to an online Wizard of Oz game found only of the Dark Web. I find this stuff very intriguing. The thought of a corner of the internet where all sorts of shady things go down is fascinating to me. I would have liked to learn more about this.

I was also very pleased that the craft retreat was given such attention in the book. There were descriptions of the activities that made me feel like I was there with them. It definitely made me want to attend a retreat of my own, if I could just find one. I love crafting cozies where I feel like I am learning something new about the featured craft.

This book was a pleasure to read. The story flowed along at a steady pace and was very interesting. I can definitely see myself reading more from this author in the future.

I received a free ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review. ( )
  readingover50 | Jun 11, 2019 |
No Charm Intended: A Cora Crafts Mystery
Cozy
Mollie Cox Bryan

Cora has a new life in a new home with new friends, in Indigo Gap, North Carolina. She and her business partner and friend, Jane are preparing to host their second “wildcrafting” retreat at her Victorian home. But a when local nanny Gracie Wyke goes missing everything gets turned upside down. While trying to lead their guests on nature hikes, rock painting and making clay charms, Cora and Jane, team up to do their own investigation into her disappearance.

Cora takes Paul, Gracie's lovestruck boyfriend in, believing he is in danger from whoever took Gracie. But as new clues are uncovered, and the body of Paul’s best friend, Henry turns up at a local abandoned Wizard of Oz amusement park, Cora and Jane worry that they may be harboring a dangerous criminal.
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There is no doubt that Mollie Cox Bryan is a talented and creative writer. The crafting basis of her story is interesting and contains a bit of magic. However, picking a particular character that stands out from all the others is almost impossible, and at times can be confusing as to who the main character even is. The main characters have distinct personalities that for the most part are likable. Yet Cora seems to panic over the past and men, whereas Jane is frightened by even a hint of trusting anyone, including Cora.

The writing flows but is a bit too slow paced. The mystery gets lost in the crafting, and the clues to the identity of the killer are too subtle. When it becomes apparent who the killer is there is no logical reason to suspect the character or to give the killer any credence. A better explanation needs to be given to accept who the killer is and the motive for the brutal murder of a young man and the abduction of a quiet, beautiful young woman.

All books, including those in a series, must stand alone. If not they fail to capture the audience's attention and hold it over the course of several books. This book would benefit from giving a quick background on the main characters at the beginning of the story so that the reader doesn’t sit and scratch their head in confusion. The ending is satisfying but brief. The story has appeal, the primary setting has promise, and the crafting angle is well thought out and entertaining. Readers who enjoy craft related stories will enjoy this book and the crafting projects that are included.

In conclusion, I like the writing of the author, and although the story is long and a bit too complicated for a quick read, the series has great potential for future books.

The publisher provided an ARC in return for an honest review. ( )
  GinDuperre | Jan 4, 2019 |
Cora, Jane, and Ruby are worried about the disappearance of Gracie, London's babysitter, but must carry on the current craft retreat while they try to protect their guests.

the mystery had several different levels and the plot twists were fascinating. ( )
  cyderry | Jun 21, 2017 |
Cora Chevalier is the owner of Kildare House, an historic home in the small town of Indigo Gap, North Carolina. She moved there after her previous life working in a women's shelter in Pittsburgh sent her into a downward spiral that she's still recovering from. Also with her is her best friend Jane Starr, a potter whom, along with her daughter London live in the carriage house on the property.

Cora has turned Kildare House into a place where she holds crafting retreats, and the latest is a "wildcrafting" retreat where the guests are going to learn to use nature to make beautiful items they can be proud of both creating themselves and owning (or gifting).

But then there's a hitch: First, Cora receives a message on her phone that reads "I kidnapped her" but discounts it at first as a prank until she finds out others received the same message. Then Jane's babysitter, Gracie Wyke, goes missing; her boyfriend Paul and his friend Henry show up, hoping that she might have said something to Jane which will give him a clue as to her whereabouts by retracing her final steps, but no such luck. Shortly after their visit, Henry goes missing and Cora, feeling sorry for the distraught Paul, offers to let him stay for awhile. Even though Jane is against it, there isn't anything she can say, so she lets it go. But not too long after, it's discovered that Henry has been murdered, and Paul becomes a suspect in the crime.

When Cora and Jane begin investigating (against the wishes of the local police) they find that all three college students were playing a computer game called The Wizard of Oz. But this is no kids' game, and somewhere along the line it may have turned deadly.

Although I did enjoy this book more than the first one of the series, I didn't enjoy the fact that it was intimated depression is dangerous. At one point Jane practically goes ballistic, noting that if she knew Gracie was depressed, she never would have hired her as a babysitter. Why? (You can recover from depression and never suffer from it again). I also wondered why she would have told her five-year-old daughter that her babysitter had been kidnapped. Who has that conversation with their young child? And then repeats it in front of her, and doesn't even think she's the reason her daughter is having nightmares!

Both women seemingly made a big deal of Gracie's depression; yet you have two deeply damaged protagonists - Cora's stress/anxiety and Jane's bad relationships leaving her with the inability to trust men - who aren't seeking therapy of their own to deal with it. Trust me, just moving to a new town and starting over isn't going to fix their problems, or get them on the road to their own mental health recovery.

There was some nice interaction between the crafters this time out, and I enjoyed the "crossover" of characters from Ms. Bryan's other Cumberland Creek scrapbooking series, which was a lot of fun. The book was interesting enough to keep me reading throughout the night, and it's a light, easy read with a decent plot regarding the DarkNet (it's explained a little in the book for those who don't know much about it).

In the end, I didn't feel that there was any strong motive for the antagonist to commit kidnapping/murder. I would have liked to have had this person be a bigger part of the story so that we could have actually gotten to know a little bit about them (understand their reasoning, etc), but as it were, that seemed to be seriously lacking, in my opinion. However, I'm not ready to give up on the characters yet; perhaps in the third book we'll see the ladies come into their own a little bit more and finally take charge of their lives. Recommended. ( )
  joannefm2 | Jun 19, 2017 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:"The perfect weekend getaway: crafting, food, and a murder or two!" ??New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon
Settling into her new life and career in small-town Indigo Gap, North Carolina, Cora Chevalier is preparing to host a "wildcrafting" retreat at her Victorian home. But a specter hangs over the venture when beloved local nanny Gracie Wyke goes missing. Amidst leading their guests in nature hikes, rock painting and making clay charms, Cora and her business partner, Jane, team up with Gracie's boyfriend, Paul, to launch their own investigation into her disappearance when the local police prove unhelpful.
Cora and her crafters take Paul in, believing he is in danger and not the suspect police have made him out to be. However as they uncover new clues and a body turns up at a local abandoned amusement park, Cora and Jane begin to question their decision. With more questions than answers arising, is Cora crafty enough to untangle a knot that could put an innocent in jail??and permanently destroy her reputation?
Praise for Mollie Cox Bryan's Mysteries
"Scrapbookers and hobby cozy fans will enjoy this delightful holiday escape." ??Library Journal on A Crafty Christmas
"Light and full of positive solutions... A great entry in a fun series." ??RT Book Reviews on Death of an Irish Diva
"A font of ingenuity...superb entertainment." ??Mystery Scene Magazine on Scrapbook of Secrets
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