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Death in Room 7 (Pine Lake Inn Cozy Mystery Book 1) Kindle Edition

by K.J. Emrick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.3 3,014 ratings

Book 1 of 11: Pine Lake Inn Cozy Mystery

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From the Author of the Darcy Sweet Mystery Series...

Adelle Powers, or Dell as she is known around the town of Lakeshore, is living her dream life. She and her best friend Rosie Ryan are owners of the wonderfully quirky Pine Lake Inn, a very popular Australian tourist destination. Running her own inn is the only thing she has ever wanted to do and it is her pride and joy.

So when Dell's friend Jessica calls to say she's coming for a visit Dell is ecstatic and can't wait to show it off to her friend. Surprisingly Dell finds that Rosie is less than thrilled about the visit and can't understand why. They were all such good friends, or so she thought.

It would seem that Rosie may know something about Jessica's past that Dell doesn't. Some sort of secret that Rosie is reluctant to share with her. When Jessica is found dead in her room the following day it would appear that her secret past may have finally caught up with her.

Horrified by the death of her good friend in her very own inn, Dell soon gets drawn into the mystery. And things take a turn for the very weird when Jessica's ghost visits her, more than once, directing Dell to clues that have been overlooked by a very incompetent police investigation.

Soon Dell finds her own life in peril as she gets further into the mystery surrounding her friends life, and death.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013E3J8BQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ South Coast Publishing; 1st edition (August 3, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 3, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2561 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 201 pages

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- #12 in Cozy Culinary Mystery
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K.J. Emrick

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Kathrine Emrick writing as K.J. Emrick is the author of the popular Darcy Sweet Cozy Mystery series and the Pine Lake Inn Cozy Mystery series.

She lives in beautiful South Australia with her family, including several cats and dogs. Kathrine can always be found jotting down daily notes in a journal and like many authors, she loves to be surrounded by books and is a voracious reader. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and volunteering at the local library.

To find out more please visit the Kathrine's website at kathrineemrick.com

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Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2022

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Great story filled with a ton of mystery, suspense, intrigue and also some humor. Dell is a great character but I really enjoyed Jess too. Hope you enjoy the story as much as I did.

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2018

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Set in a small town in Tasmania, this is a really solid cozy mystery mixed with a heavy dose of paranormal towards the end of the book.

I really enjoyed the characters especially Dell, the owner of the Inn and her son Kevin who is on the police force.

If I had any quibbles about the book is was the fact that there were a few obvious lose ends that will obviously be picked up in subsequent books. I really don't like when authors do that in that I think it's cheating the reader, but that aside, I give this book a solid <strong>4 stars</strong> -- well worth reading on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

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New author for me

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2022

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I would love to read more of Emrick's books. At least the one I can afford! The book has a really good mystery. I had a few guesses but not the right ones! The book held my interest throughout the entire book. I use Kindle Unlimited, because I read at least two, maybe three books a day (depending on the length). I highly recommend this book.

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2022

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I liked having an older protagonist in a location which gets little literary representation.

It was a good read but the tense changes were really jarring. Past and present tense could appear within the same sentence, hence the reduced rating. Shame because I would have liked to give more.

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2024

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I thought I had the bad guy figured out but then another twist. Reasonable answer to the crime. Didn’t really know about the ghosts.

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Another enjoyable read

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2019

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Great mystery!I The characters are believable, interesting, caring, and some rotten to the core. Like the rapport between Mother and son.

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Tari H.

Murder, cozy suspense and a really cool ghost

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2021

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A very intriguing mystery that kept me turning Kindle pages. The inconsistency of going between normal tense and present tense was hard for me though. I'm not a fan of present tense storytelling, unless it's a short sentence here and there explaining something the main character does, like works at an inn, but there was more than just a little of it. I've read a sample of another first person book by the author, and it reads consistently in normal tense as do her third person series, so maybe this series was a first attempt. :)

There were sure a lot of interesting and crazy characters though. And I did like Dell and Rosie's inn they ran. I wanted to clobber that Angus Cutter sometimes! He was so unfair. Dell's son who was just a constable could have done Angus's job and his own. I hope somewhere along the line, Cutter is found out to be corrupt or something like that and ousted. There were a lot of references to a prior case that took place in another of the author's series, and I got the feeling that a few unresolved things might pop up later. I did like the idea of the ghost helping Dell with the case. Ghosts like that are always welcome, lol. I might read more in the series sometime. I'm pretty sure I own the next book anyway.

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2022

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Well written mystery story, that makes you want to scurry over to book two, even when your schedule is crying for some attention😉😷.

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Genial

Reviewed in Mexico on November 6, 2022

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Me encantó, narrativa muy descriptiva para mí nivel de inglés. Simplemente genial

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Skillfully crafted who dunit

Reviewed in Canada on September 24, 2022

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Loved the story and it is an excellent read

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2023

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Great item, excellent value and good quality.

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Brilliant

Reviewed in India on September 6, 2018

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Witty as well as suspenseful. The twists and turns were brilliant. Even the description i find flawless.
Waiting for more.

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Storyline good, details need work

Reviewed in Australia on June 14, 2023

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The storyline is good, an interesting and captivating mystery.
But, the writer has used too many American expressions and terms for the story to be set in an Australian town.

Towns and cities do not have their own police departments, police are state police and if a small town needs additional resources it's not the Australian Federal Police they source this from but the regional headquarters.

Town mayors do not employ or control police. Police are under the control of the state police Commissioner, who in turn is responsible to the state governments minister of Police.
The mayor has absolutely no influence over the police activities or personnel.

The terminology "candy" is seldom used in Australia, perhaps creeping into our vocabulary due to the influence of US tv shows

Australians spell the shortened word for Mother as "mum" not "mom" .

And cars have bonnets, not "hoods". This might sound picky but using the correct terminology when an Australian character is referring to something is Important.

Maybe the author has dumbed down the Australian terms for their American audience. But as an Australian I found the American terms and spellings to be annoying.