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    The Cracked Pot: A Clay and Crime Mystery by Melissa Glazer

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    (Mass Market Paperback)

    • Pub. Date: May 2008
    • 224pp
    • Sales Rank: 77,917

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      • Pub. Date: May 2008
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
      • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 224pp
      • Sales Rank: 77,917

      Synopsis

      When the body of a new potter with a mysterious past is found in Carolyn Emerson's raku firing pit, she calls upon her studio's pottery club, The Firing Squad, to dig up evidence and crack the case.

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      A really "fun" readby Anonymous

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      October 10, 2009: I have read everything that Melilssa Glazer has written and I enjoyed all of them.

      The night is dark and the stars shine down. Someone has committed new crime in townby Kasia_S

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      October 27, 2008: I found myself back in charming Maple Ridge faster than expected, the second book in the Clay and Crime series was even more fun than the first. Carolyn Emerson and her zany gang of pottery fanatics have enchanted me enough to be anticipating the 3rd book in the series out in November, but if that book was in my lap today I would probably be cracking it open in no time.

      After meeting most of the original characters from the first book, minus the killer that was unveiled in it, I got right back into Carolyn's life, full of ups and downs as usual. Trying to stay in business with finicky customers, surprise visits from people from her past and finding yet another body, Carolyn has her hands fuller than before. Not only she feels obligated to solve another gristly death but two of her friends, David and Hannah are somehow connected and she has to decide whether to stand by them or forget all loyalties and solve the crime without emotional attachment.

      Summer approaching the small Vermont town brings in some new faces into the neighborhood and catches up nicely to the ones I missed and met before and as usual has plenty of fun pottery woven into the story. Carolyn and her husband Bill are as sweet as every, and even though the bicker I enjoy their tight camaraderie and all the food everyone is always eating in this book. This was a very fast read, can probably be swallowed up in one day. Also I have to agree with the review below mine that Carolyn was meddling into everyone life and checking out their alibis but at least they told her off properly and created little drama, it was entertaining, so it didn't discourage me from enjoying this book. Most cozy mysteries have a heroine that does more work and snooping than all the cops in the book, otherwise it would not be a cozy mystery but a dry crime novel.

      - Kasia S.