Homicide and Old Lace

by Dolores Johnson

Book Overview

When a young bride visits Dyer's Cleaners asking for delicate alterations on a vintage wedding dress, owner Mandy Dyer quickly discovers a disturbing truth: The groom is Mandy's own womanizing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739412051
• ISBN13: 9780739412053
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Dell
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great effort!

This I do have to say was one of the best in the series. There is much more character development with Mandy because you get to view into her past a bit more and see her family a bit more. There are still some distant characters involved, but through time those will come about (hopefully). There also seemed to be a mystery within a mystery so there were a couple of layers built up here also. I never got through a Mandy Dyer so fast, what a page turner!

A delightful book--good characters & a good mystery

This is the first Mandy Dyer mystery I've read. I immediately ordered 2 more. The characters are well written, the mystery doesn't bog down, and I find I am interested in seeing how the characters evolve. Mandy Dyer-owner of Dyers Cleaners-is brought a dress to clean & alter for a 'new bride'. Along the way, she finds out the groom is her lying, cheating, ex-husband. When murder is discovered, she's right there. Did the murderer send the bride to her shop? Was the bride aware of who Mandy was? Does Mandy's relationship with her (cop) boyfriend sink or float? These questions and more keep the book hopping. It was a great read.

Original plot, and amazing characters

One way I know if I like a book is how many paragraphs or pages I skim or skip. Simply put, the more I skim, the further the book sinks. No problems here!One thing about the Mandy Dyer Mysteries is that they simply get better as the series progresses. I did not find myself skimming because her characters were interesting and drove the book.This time, Mandy is confronted with the dilemma of cleaning the wedding gown of her ex-husband's fiancee. She tells herself that business is business and takes the job anyway. But in true Mandy Dyer fashion, she finds herself involved in a murder investigation when she walks in on her ex-husband leaning over the dead body of his fiancee on their wedding day. As if that is not bad enough, Mandy begins to realize that someone is carefully setting her up to take the fall for this murder. As the noose tightens and all fingers point to her as the jealous ex-wife out for revenge, Mandy must use all her resources to find the killer and save herself.I simply loved the interactions of all the characters in this book, especially between Betty the bag lady and Mandy's mother. Two women,who in their effort to help Mandy out of her dilemma end up causing her more trouble. They are two women from different ends of the spectrum and reading their verbal exchanges will have you laughing. I recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery heavily laced with fun.

another terrific Mandy Dyer book

This is another terrific entry in the Mandy Dyer drycleaning series. (And if you think drycleaning is dull, you need to hang out with Mandy a little more!) The book is well-written, with believable characters and some nice twists that had me guessing right up to the end.