Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
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HarperCollins , 2010.
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"Mary Daheim is one of the brightest stars"---Seattle Times"She is really good at what she does"---Statesman Journal (Oregon)"Delightful mysteries,"---Kansas City Star"Judith and Renie are sleuths to treasure."---Carolyn Hart, Author of Laughed `Til He Died"Daheim's Bed-and-Breakfast mysteries show a funny and often stinging insight into people's relationships and behavior."---Houston Chronicle"Mary Daheim is the reigning Queen of the Cozies."---Oregonian (portland)From USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim comes her latest Bed-and-Breakfast book featuring innkeeper judith McMonigle Flynn and her irrepressible cousin Renie in a mystery that takes them on the wrong side of the tracks...It's autumn at Hillside Manor B&B, and with the changing leaves come some unexpected guests. There's Judith's son and daughter-in-law, with their two children in tow, a couple with an imposible (and unbelievable?) last name who show up from nowhere, and a pair of giggly young women who don't seem to know where they're going.As Halloween draws nigh, Judith can barely cope with her gala of guests, but at least the worst guest from the first part of the week checks out---almost permanently. Wee Willie Weevil, infamous daredevil and matrial-arts movie icon, insisted on performing his dangerous stunts from Judith's roof and left the B&B via an ambulance.Hoping to escape the domestic mayhem, Judith agrees to accompany Renie on a cross-country train trip to Boston with first-class accommodations on the Empire Builder. Judith's bubble bursts when she discovers that Wee Willie and his entourage are fellow travelers. Although confined to a wheelchair, the diminutive stunt man seems capable of derailing the cousins' vacation.Cousin Renie does her best to ease judith's mind until the train collides with a truckload of sugar beets. Forced to wait for a new engine in a small Montana town in the middle of nowhere, the passengers can do nothing but watch and wait. Even before the train can get back on track, the cousins discover that their sleeper attendant has gone missing. Worse yet, another passenger's final destination is the nearest morgue.Judith and Renie have to move full speed ahead if they want to blow the whistle on the killer before death strikes again. Can the train continue its journey? Will the cousins ever get to Boston? Stay aboard!

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Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
09/07/2010
Language
English
ISBN
9780061978456

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Booklist Review

In this latest volume of the Bed-and-Breakfast mysteries, Judith and Renie leave home on a cross-country train trip to Boston. Shortly before their trip, the famous daredevil and martial-arts movie actor Wee Willie Weevil stays at Judith's B&B. Weevil annoys and scares Judith with his stunts, especially when he injures himself. Then Weevil and his entourage turn up on Judith's train, and, in the melee following a collision, Weevil is found dead. Judith becomes a prime suspect. Fans of the series will enjoy this latest outing, but readers encountering Judith and Renie for the first time may feel some confusion about all the different supporting characters who pop up with little or no explanation as to their significance.--Kan, Kat Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Publisher's Weekly Review

In Daheim's plodding 25th Bed-and-Breakfast mystery (after 2008's Vi Agra Falls), innkeeper and librarian Judith McMonigle Flynn takes a cross-country train trip with bumpy results. After aging daredevil Wee Willie Weevil performs a stunt that goes awry at Judith's Hillside Manor B&B in Seattle, Wash., his female assistant, Pepper Gundy, goes off in a huff, promising a lawsuit. Judith and cousin Serena "Renie" Jones soon board Amtrak's Empire Builder train to Boston, planning a mini-vacation with their husbands, Joe and Bill, who are flying to Beantown (Renie's afraid of planes). Surprisingly, they discover the injured Willie, Pepper, and another assistant also onboard. Problems escalate after a helpful train attendant vanishes, a train-stopping accident occurs, and Willie is found dead in a sleeping car compartment. The convoluted plotting and irksome characters may leave new readers cold, but faithful fans will savor this latest challenge for the B&B Nancy Drew. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Kirkus Book Review

Wisecracking cousins board a cross-country train and watch the corpses whiz by.Renie, who hates to fly, convinces her cousin, BB owner Judith, to take a restful Amtrak sleeper, West Coast to East, to meet their husbands, who have business engagements in Boston. What a coincidence! Half the passengers occupying neighboring compartments had been recent guests at Judith's Hillside Manor, including way-past-prime daredevil actor Wee Willie Weevil, who, on a dare, tried flying out of a second-story inn window and landed himself in a thorn bush and Judith in a $30 million lawsuit. Wee Willie is soon dead, the Amtrak attendant Roy gone missing and several other mishaps await: a collision with a pickup truck carrying beets; four passengers stranded in the middle of nowhere; spotty cell-phone reception; a camera lost from luggage; a man who gets off the train with sideburns and back on without them; and as many folks using aliases and slipping in and out of bedrooms as in a French farce. On top of it all, the snow is really coming down. Undaunted, Judith makes friends and breaks alibis, but it's up to Renie to save her from being pitched off the train by a good thwack from a sock loaded with horse chestnuts.Fast-paced, droll and lively fun for old friends of the two-dozen other Bed-and-Breakfast mysteries (Vi Agra Falls, 2008, etc.). It may even tempt you to head for the depot instead of the airport.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Booklist Reviews

"In this latest volume of the Bed-and-Breakfast mysteries, Judith and Renie leave home on a cross-country train trip to Boston. Just before leaving, Judith's Hillside Manor B&B hosted famous daredevil and martial-arts movie actor Wee Willie Weevil, whom her son Mike and his sons love. Weevil, however, annoys and scares Judith with his stunts, especially when he injures himself. It's bad enough when Weevil and his entourage also board the train, and it gets worse when the train collides with a reckless trucker in a small Montana town, stranding the train and all its passengers. And when Weevil is found dead, Judith becomes a prime suspect; she and Renie work to clear her name. Fans of the series will enjoy this latest outing, but readers encountering Judith and Renie for the first time may feel some confusion about all the different supporting characters who pop up with little to no explanation as to their significance." Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews.

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Booklist Reviews

In this latest volume of the Bed-and-Breakfast mysteries, Judith and Renie leave home on a cross-country train trip to Boston. Shortly before their trip, the famous daredevil and martial-arts movie actor Wee Willie Weevil stays at Judith's B&B. Weevil annoys and scares Judith with his stunts, especially when he injures himself. Then Weevil and his entourage turn up on Judith's train, and, in the melee following a collision, Weevil is found dead. Judith becomes a prime suspect. Fans of the series will enjoy this latest outing, but readers encountering Judith and Renie for the first time may feel some confusion about all the different supporting characters who pop up with little or no explanation as to their significance. Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews.

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Library Journal Reviews

The prolific Daheim drops another in March, this one in her "Bed & Breakfast" series, with Judith and Renie stuck on a train with a dead body. Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

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Publishers Weekly Reviews

In Daheim's plodding 25th Bed-and-Breakfast mystery (after 2008's Vi Agra Falls), innkeeper and librarian Judith McMonigle Flynn takes a cross-country train trip with bumpy results. After aging daredevil Wee Willie Weevil performs a stunt that goes awry at Judith's Hillside Manor B&B in Seattle, Wash., his female assistant, Pepper Gundy, goes off in a huff, promising a lawsuit. Judith and cousin Serena "Renie" Jones soon board Amtrak's Empire Builder train to Boston, planning a mini-vacation with their husbands, Joe and Bill, who are flying to Beantown (Renie's afraid of planes). Surprisingly, they discover the injured Willie, Pepper, and another assistant also onboard. Problems escalate after a helpful train attendant vanishes, a train-stopping accident occurs, and Willie is found dead in a sleeping car compartment. The convoluted plotting and irksome characters may leave new readers cold, but faithful fans will savor this latest challenge for the B&B Nancy Drew. (Sept.)

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Daheim, M. (2010). Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery . HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Daheim, Mary. 2010. Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery. HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Daheim, Mary. Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery HarperCollins, 2010.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Daheim, M. (2010). Loco motive: a bed-and-breakfast mystery. HarperCollins.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Daheim, Mary. Loco Motive: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery HarperCollins, 2010.

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