Bowled Over
Written by Victoria Hamilton
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
With her fingerprints all over the bowl and a troubled history with the victim, Jaymie suddenly finds herself at the top of the list of suspects. Did the killer intend to frame her for the murder? If so, she is ready to mix it up, because solving crimes is vintage Jaymie Leighton . . .
Victoria Hamilton
Victoria Hamilton is the pseudonym of nationally bestselling romance author Donna Lea Simpson.She now happily writes about vintage kitchen collecting, muffin baking, and dead bodies in the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries and Merry Muffin Mystery series. Besides writing about murder and mayhem, and blogging at Killer Characters, Victoria collects vintage kitchen wares and old cookbooks, as well as teapots and teacups.
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Reviews for Bowled Over
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is my second book and I just love how Jamie gets into things. Keeps you guessing on who done it. I would recommend starting with book one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jaymie loves vintage kitchenware. Jaymie took potato salad to the town picnic in a vintage depression glass bowl which someone used to kill Kathy Cooper, a long-time childhood friend who began feuding with her in high school for reasons unknown to Jaymie. Jaymie decides to help the local detective solve the case--since her bowl was the weapon. Since she's an amateur sleuth, you can expect her to get herself into trouble with her nosiness. The audio narration is a little too much on the "sweet" side for me. Still this is a fun series with lots of twists and turns. The solution was not immediately obvious and kept the reader guessing.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This second installment of the Vintage Kitchen series centered around the long time feud between Jaymie and Kathy Cooper. Jaymie doesn't understand what caused their friendship to explode many years ago and Kathy isn't talking. And then Kathy can't talk when Jamie finds her dead, bashed over the head with Jaymie's own bowl.Since she'll never have the opportunity to heal the rift between them, Jaymie is determined to find out who did kill her old friend but discovers that there a number of people who were not on Kathy's favorite people's list.The characters still need a bit of work but he mystery was fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this cozy with a July 4th setting. it was a real "who dunnit" to the bitter end.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have been on a run of mediocrity in my book reading lately, and this book was no exception. My three stars, to be clear, are "it was just ok". It wasn't an awful read, but it wasn't as good as I think it should be.
The premise of the plot is excellent. Jaymie's estranged from her childhood best friend since high school, for reasons she's never understood, as Kathy would never explain why she suddenly started hating her. Kathy is murdered and the weapon belongs to Jaymie. In an effort to understand what happened, she starts digging around. I figured out the solution to the murder mystery from the first clue, but I'm not sure why it was so obvious to me, as from a writing standpoint, I'd argue that it was well done.
The best parts of this book, IMO, were the interactions she had with Detective Christian and the times she was telling her sister Becca to back off and out of her business and those moments were very few and far between. Those were the only times a spirit seemed to enter into the story, any spark or hint of a more complex personality than an automaton. Otherwise, all the characters felt a bit bland and flat (except Kathy before she was killed). A lot of repetition of internal dialogue and emotion throughout the book made me a bit crazy as well. Each character is likeable enough, but there is a great potential here to really create a lively, interesting cast of characters and I'm a bit sad that they're all walking around like they've been drinking Xanax milkshakes.
I love the premise as well - vintage kitchenware is an interest of mine, so I really want to like these books. But even that is disappointingly subdued - very little talk about vintage kitchenware at all.
I'll read the next book, but if there isn't a lot of improvement, I'll have to accept that this series is not for me. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really love this series. This particular book had so many twists and turns, which made it even more enjoyable. Figuring out "whodunit" was definitely not easy--every time I thought I had it figured out, something happened that made me suspect someone else instead. Jaymie's relationships with the other people in town are blossoming, and I'll be anxious to see what happens with her, Daniel and Zack. Can't wait to listen to the next one!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I appreciate it when authors create characters who evolve throughout a series of books, but they don't always grow in the directions I would prefer. This is what's happening in Victoria Hamilton's Vintage Kitchen mysteries. I enjoyed Jaymie Leighton in the first book, A Deadly Grind, but not so much in this one. For one thing, there's very little to do with vintage kitchenalia in this second outing, and although there's a bit more about the second cookbook she's putting together, there's not enough of that either. It's a natural outcome of all the part-time jobs she's accumulated in between books, but I still missed my collectibles fix.Most of the book has to do with Jaymie's high school feud with best friend Kathy Cooper. Kathy has always refused to tell her what caused the blowup, and in Bowled Over, Jaymie spends way too much time trying to worm information out of others-- and making matters worse. Her actions show her to be naive and a little bit strait-laced. If she's nice to someone, she expects to be liked, and she can't leave it alone if that's not what happens. She's thrown for a loop if someone she's met proves not to meet her perceptions or her expectations. More than once while I was reading, I wanted to tell Jaymie to grow up. With all this grumping, you might think that I didn't like the book. Surprise-- I did because the mystery was so good. All in all, I'm undecided about continuing to read Jaymie's further adventures, but don't let me stop you from reading either book in this series. Bowled Over touches on a period of my life that I did not like and seldom think about anymore. I can almost guarantee that your mileage in high school-- and your enjoyment of this book-- will vary greatly!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowled Over is the second book in the Vintage Kitchen Mystery series by Victoria Hamilton.
A great second book to this informative series. Not as much information on vintage kitchen items as the first book, but some to appeal to collectors of these items.
Jaymie Leighton is at the Emporium doing some shopping when she see her nemesis from high school, Kathy, giving Ella a hard time about Ella's running over Kathy's nephew with her wheelchair. Jaymie step in and Kathy then turns her anger on Jaymie. Jaymie has no idea why Kathy stopped liking her in high school, but would like to know, so that things can be put right.
Unfortunately at the 4th of July, after the fireworks, Jaymie finds Kathy's nephew unattended and soon finds Kathy's lifeless body. Kathy has been hit on the head with a Depression era bowl of Jaymie's. Luckly, Jaymie has an alibi. In addition Kathy has quite an extensive list of possible murderers.
Her sister, Kylie, whose son, Kathy is trying to adopt has a million dollar insurance policy on Kathy. Then there is the philandering husband who might want her out of the way. But then Johnny Stanko had had a heated argument with Kathy and it is known that he last had the bowl in his possession.
Of course Jaymie wants to help find the murderer, but she wants to help so that she can get closure for not settling he troubles with Kathy before. Jaymie and Daniel have come to an agreement in their possible relationship. We'll have to wait and see if Detective Christian has anything to say about it.
Looking forward to next book in this enjoyable series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jaymie Leighton’s love of old kitchenware has spawned a picnic basket business in the second Vintage Kitchen mystery. Her former childhood friend, Kathy Cooper, is surly toward all. Jaymie still doesn’t know why her friend stopped talking to her in high school and after a long Fourth of July evening, we ;earn Jaymie will never discover why. Jaymie digs into the mystery, with the police looking on with vague warnings to stay out of things. The secondary characters are close to being well-developed. Between her sister, store owners, B&B owners next door, possible boyfriend--many of them have purpose, but there’s almost too many of them to be Jaymie’s perfect confidante. Still, the mystery kept my attention and the information about some of the old kitchenware interesting.