To Have and to Kill, Mary Jane Clark
To Have and to Kill, Mary Jane Clark
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To Have and to Kill

Author: Mary Jane Clark

Narrator: Isabel Keating

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/28/2010

Synopsis

“Clark has perfected the suspense novel.”
—BooklistNew York Times bestselling author and mystery writer par excellence, Mary Jane Clark kicks off her delicious new Wedding Cake mystery series with To Have and To Kill. A tasty departure from her thrillers featuring KEY News television anchor Eliza Blake (Dying for Mercy, It Only Takes a Moment), To Have and To Kill introduces readers to actress-turned-wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan, who discovers that the heat in the pastry kitchen can be hotter—and deadlier—that she ever imagined…and that her creative new enterprise is anything but a piece of cake. Foodies and fans of cable TV’s Amazing Wedding Cakes, as well as Faye Kellerman, Jayne Anne Krentz, and Diana Mott Davidson readers are going to eat this one up!

About Mary Jane Clark

Mary Jane Clark worked at CBS News for nearly three decades. Her twelve KEY News media thrillers were inspired by that experience. Envisioning the Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake mystery series, Mary Jane enrolled in cake-decorating classes and researched unique wedding locations. The daughter of an FBI agent and a mother who customized cakes for the neighborhood kids when she was growing up, Mary Jane has two grown children and splits her time between New Jersey and Florida.

About Isabel Keating

Isabel Keating garnered a 2004 Tony® nomination for her role as Judy Garland in The Boy From Oz. She has numerous off Broadway credits, and made her Broadway debut starring in Enchanted April.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Grace

The book was a quick and easy read and mostly enjoyable. I was a little disappointed about several things, though. There were a lot of potential murderers, but none were really fleshed out. The eventual outing of the actual murderer felt more like a "Scooby Doo" moment to me. It also bothered me tha......more

Goodreads review by Renee

Pleasant enough, but everything was just sort of thin. It moved along quickly, but without any depth. Just sort of bouncing from event to event. Only one of the murders had any psychological oomph to it. It felt more like the author was sketching out characters for a novel... Perhaps the outlines fi......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

"To Have and to Kill" is a very fast-paced cozy mystery--yet it's not a typical cozy. Piper is curious about who is causing the murders, but she never directly tried to snoop around and find out who did it. She left that to the police. Yet she's still in the middle of everything that's going on due......more

Goodreads review by Ell

This was the first book I have read by Mary Jane Clark. It was a bit more face paced than many cozy mysteries and I definitely appreciated it. I like a bit of suspense in my cozies and I don’t like to wait until a third of the way in to find it. I enjoyed the way the cast of characters were complete......more

Goodreads review by Giovanni

To Have and To Kill is the first novel in a new series for Mary Jane Clark. I haven’t had the pleasure of reading one of her novels before so this was a first of firsts for me, I enjoyed it. Clark definitely drew me in right away. Here is what this novel is about: “My new character, Piper Donovan, is......more

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