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The Accidental Florist

A Jane Jeffry Mystery

by Jill Churchill

Published 2007224 pagesISBN 978-0-0605-2845-4

Suburban supersleuth Jane Jeffry and her detective beau Mel VanDyne have finally decided to tie the knot. While Jane's planning the wedding of her dreams—with no overbearing mother-in-law to steamroll the entire event and tell her what to wear—Mel convinces her and her best friend Shelley to take a women's self-defense class. But before Jane and Shelley can learn the karate kicks and mean moves to fight off even the perfect purse-snatcher, their class is cut brutally short . . . when two participants are murdered. Between her new writing project, an addition to the house, and battling mothers-in-law, she's got her hands full. But she'll have to make time to help Mel find the killer if she wants to walk happily—and safely—down the aisle.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

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Reading experience

Shadowed tone · Urgent pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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Reading lengthA shorter read224 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2007
Primary categoryFictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-0605-2845-4
Language
English
Edition record
OL9232616M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

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