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Tutu Deadly (Jenny T. Partridge Dance Mysteries, No. 1) |
Author: Natalie M. Roberts
Published: 2007-04-03 |
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 Murder and psycho dance moms
Jenny Partridge is having enough trouble keeping her dance studio afloat between the bills and the psycho dance moms. When the mother of Taylee, the most talented dancer Jenny has, is poisoned by the cookie dough Jenny sold as a fundraiser, this heat up even more. Jenny finds herself attracted to the hunky police detective Tate Wilson who considers her a suspect.
Then she is shot at. Her studio is bombed. Plus Taylee is missing. Can Jenny help find Taylee and still pull off her Nutcracker performance? Can she help solve the murder to take some of the pressure off?
I loved this cozy mystery. I can't wait to read more in this series. Jenny is so much fun. And the psycho dance moms definitely keep things interesting! And that makes for plenty of suspects as well.
Having danced as a youngster, I could easily see the studio and activities. The author does a great job of bringing that world to life.
I highly recommend this book.
 Pleasant Suprise
I really enjoy light, comedic mysteries, and have discovered some really great authors. I'm happy to say that Natalie M. Roberts has newly made the list! I think that the main character, Jenny, is very endearing and look forward to new Jenny adventures. If you're looking for a light, funny mystery with a dash of romance, then this is the book for you.
Not Tutu Bad
Jenny Partridge's life is already complicated. She is trying to run a dance studio, deal with psycho dance moms, and keep up with her bills. The last thing she needs (or wants) is for the mother of her most talented dance student, Taylee, to be murdered - by poisoned cookie dough that Jenny was selling as a fundraiser. Now Jenny is trying to convince hunky police detective Tate Wilson that she is not a murderer while fighting her attraction to him. She's trying to find the killer as well as finding out who shot at her, who set off a bomb in her studio, and where Taylee is. On top of that, she is trying to stage her version of the Nutcracker. She certainly has a lot to take care of, too too much!
"Tutu Deadly" is a pretty good debut cozy mystery. Author Natalie M. Roberts does use a few of the standard cliches for a cozy mystery - cute, single woman struggling to make her dream job profitable (I kept thinking "why doesn't she charge more for dance lessons?"), who stumbles across a murder that threatens her livelihood, and the hunky police detective who initially suspects her but then sets out to clear her name. But Roberts manages to add some fresh twists that help make this book enjoyable. First is Jenny herself - she is laugh out loud funny at times, especially when she mangles phrases, but her love for dance and her sincere concern for Taylee is what makes her a great character. Having the book set in the world of a dance school with its psycho dance moms is another great touch (and provides plenty of suspects). While there is a lot of humor in the book (the whole sub plot with Jenny's friend James not being able to tell his mother he is gay is especially hilarious) there are enough serious moments to keep the book from being too light and fluffy. The mystery itself is well plotted with lots of twists and turns. There are a lot of little plots going on in the book (almost too many) and readers will have a hard time figuring out who the murderer is. Roberts deserves credit for not wrapping everything up happily in the end, since real life isn't like that.
"Tutu Deadly" isn't too too bad.
 A different view of this book
I just finished this book for my book club and found it very annoying.
There was some insight into what it must be like to be a dance teacher and
what it is like to live in Ogden, Utah, but it did not grab and hold me
like it did for other reviewers. It was too silly and shrill and some of
the sequences in the book are still a mystery to me. If you are looking for a light frothy book to immediately forget you may like this one. One more thing, the romance moved too quickly and stupidly for me.
Tutu Cute :)
Ok - I just have to start with the fact that I find Jenny T. Partridge irresistable. Her life is a little chaotic, her friends a little diverse, and her life a little messy. She can't hold onto a cell phone to save her life, much less a good man.
Somehow things begin to change with the poisoned cookie dough, the death of a dance-mom, and the disappearance of her star student. The supporting cast of characters is comparable to those in the Stephanie Plum series, minus one Grandma Lazur, because who can compare to her.
I really enjoyed the plot, and was guessing to end of the who-done-it. I can't wait to catch up with Jenny and her crew again.
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