A Killer Collection

Antiques & Collectibles Mysteries Series #1

By: Ellery Adams

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Molly Appleby is a young writer for Collector's Weekly, and when the attractive reporter isn't covering auctions and antique shows all over the South, she's trying to get her new relationship with a coworker off the ground. When her latest assignment takes her to North Carolina pottery country to cover an exclusive kiln opening, she's certain that the show promises surprising offerings and rare finds. What she doesn't expect to find is a dead body.

George-Bradley Staunton is known throughout the antiques world as a very wealthy and very ruthless collector, and when he drops dead just after the opening, there are all too few mourners and a seemingly endless list of suspects. When the local police are stumped, Molly steps in to put her journalist's nose to work sniffing out the culprit. But no sooner does she start collecting clues than another dead body falls into her lap. As Molly digs beneath the genteel surface of antiques and collectibles, she finds a world filled with backstabbing and competition, and what started as a story about rare collections might leave Molly with nothing more than a collection of corpses.

©2006 Jennifer Stanley; revised copyright 2014 by Jennifer Stanley (P)2016 Tantor

kinda boring

struggled to finish. great$ull for lack of foul language. too detailed bt pottery as opposed to storyline.

A great story

As a former ceramics buff, this story was great. I liked the description of how throwing a pot
Was accomplished




ceramics buff

Good!

Really liking this series and the story line is very interesting ! Looking forward to next book!

Pottery and murder

Pretty good debut. A quick cozy mystery with a dash of romance. Not a bad start.

Not very well constructed

Not very well constructed and add a sprite of self justice

First of off all the book was very ' dry ' - only a few hints of humor usually tinged with negativity.
Calling people stupid (Dumb and Dumber) does not amuse me.

If you like pottery, this may be a more interesting read. However the authors attempt to make
clay into an almost living thing is laughable for the rest of us.

Our hero spends the entire book trying to figure out who the murderer is and then when she does the entire thing just kind of goes away.

Also ex wife and mistress mysteries are so overused it can not be considered very original.

And at the end we really still don't know who the murderer is or if they even killed the 'right' victim as I suspect there were 2 people in the car at the time of the accident. Or maybe I just lost interest ... - which it never really held to begin with.

A well crafted mystery with a satisfying twist at the end. Genius!

I love all of Ellery Adams books. But this is my all time favorite. Could not put it down for want of knowing what would happen next. The ending was well played with a twist of divine justice. Made me smile!

I didn't think I would like a book about pottery

But I enjoyed the narrator's voice , the mystery and the characters a lot. Actually couldn't put it down!

Pottery Lover's Delight

A long time collector of southern pottery, I was in heaven listening to this book . . . our son is stationed at Fort Bragg, not far from the Seagrove Potters Community in North Carolina . . . and it was like going home to hear about Molly and her mother visiting the kiln openings there . . . the nasty, greedy old George-Bradley Staunton who knocked all the fellow collectors out of the way to get his hands on the wares made my blood boil, because we collectors are a mild mannered, happy bunch of folks . . . most of us doing it for the love of the time-honored art of pottery making handed down for generations . . . each time finding a new piece or a new artist sort of like discovering a treasure to be adored . . . not exploited . . . having collected and seen many of these artists go on to the big pottery wheel in the sky, and their children choose NOT to carry on the family tradition, I relish hearing about every aspect of the making of fine pieces . . . guess there's a bad egg in every hen house, so to speak, and poor old George finally got cracked. . . hated to see the second murder happen . . . all in all, great story . . . already downloaded the next book in the series . . . but it will have to work hard to beat this one!

My brother made pottery so this was interesting.

The story was really interesting and entertaining. I think I listened to the whole thing in one afternoon. The narration was really very well done. I hope this is a very long series.

A fun new series.

I enjoyed the characters. The story was interesting. I’m going to try the next in the series!