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Scandal in Fair Haven | 
 enlarge | Author: Carolyn G. Hart
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 354767
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0553565370
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553565379
ASIN: 0553565370
Publication Date: May 1, 1995
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When her friend is murdered in her lavish Fair Haven estate, all signs point to the victim's husband, and ex-journalist Henrie O. tries to learn the truth by questioning suspects from the area's best families. Reprint.
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 It's Carolyn Hart March 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book. It is a perfect who done it.
I am a big fan Of Ms. Hart & I really enjoyed this book & trying to figure out just who the killer was & why.
 Rather tedious to read March 8, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read Caroyln Hart's other series (Death on Demand) and decided to try this one. This is NOT as good as the other series. The plot of slow, the character boring...and its all very one-person. Its just Henrie O solving her crime. There isn't the depth of secondary characters that add life to a mystery (like there is in Death on Demand). Most of the characters are annoying and not likeable as well. Not a recommended read...a much better read is one of her Death on Demand series with Annie.
The Scandal Bogs Down December 4, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Henrie O. is looking forward to a week's vacation with a friend at a cabin in Tennessee. But first her friend needs emergency heart surgery. Then Henrie's first night in the cabin is interrupted by the friend's nephew.
It's the middle of the night when Craig Matthews arrives bloody and upset. He's just found the body of his wife, Patty Kay, in their house in the town of Fair Haven. The police are looking for Craig because they believe he did it, and the fact that he ran doesn't help his case.
Henrie thinks it's a set up. The case against Craig is based on nothing but circumstantial evidence, and too many details point to him. It just all seems a little to convenient. Posing as Craig's aunt, she returns with him to Fair Haven to see if she can find the truth.
On the surface, Fair Haven seems like a nice, mostly rich town scandalized by a murder in the community. This kind of thing just doesn't happen there. But the more Henrie learns, the more motives seem to emerge. The problem is, just as many clues point to Craig as against him. Can Henrie clear Craig, or will she just put the final nails in his coffin?
This is a book populated by strong characters. While most of them are thrown at the reader at the beginning, with a little effort, they are easy to keep straight. Part of this is their personalities. While almost all of them are rich, Ms. Hart has made them unique, which helps them stand out in the reader's mind.
Once again, the style is outstanding as well. Things flow so well it's hard to put the book down because the reader has been drawn into the story.
The only real black mark against the book is the plot. It starts out strong with a great puzzle you can't wait to see solved. Then other suspects and motives are introduced. For the first half, things roll along fine. The problem comes in the second half. Henrie learns little new but keeps going over the same clues again and again reaching no new conclusions. Things do build again toward the climax, but the ending is a bit sudden given what has happened before and ultimately not as satisfying as it could have been.
I really did enjoy the book and am looking forward to more from Carolyn Hart. Hopefully the next book will have a climax that is more satisfying then this one.
Flying cheesecake July 31, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Henry O pretends she is a relative of a young man who is
accused of killing his wife. She interacts with all of the
people in town and eventually solves the crime. Quite a good
mystery from Hart...one of her better plots. I think you will
enjoy it.
Scandal in Fair Haven June 10, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
G.Hart, Carolyn. Scandal in Fair Haven. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Publishing Group, Inc, 1994. 275 pages.
"Scandal in Fair Haven" is an amazingly well written book filled with
lots of mysteries which will question you throughout the whole book. Set in
Nashville, Tennessee, Henrie O' goes to her friend Margaret's cabin located
on a mountain in Fair Haven for a pleasant and relaxing vacation. While she
is in Fair Haven and staying, she encounters Margaret's nephew, Craig
Matthews, whose shirt is stained with blood and is astonished as if
something had happened. This soon questions Henrie O' about what happened.
Craig tells that he found his wife, Patty Kay, lying dead in the play house
of their estate. "When I went to the kitchen, I knew something bad have
happened. Our kitchen had been vandalized. I ran outside. The playhouse
door was open. I found my wife's body there, on the floor" (pg. 26). Craig
admits that he didn't murder his wife. Henrie surprised from hearing the
story, leads herself to put in the shoes as of a detective and solves the
case on who murdered Patty Kay. To solve the case, she pretends to be
Craig's aunt and sets for the investigation to be solved. Apparently, Patty
Kay was a member of board of trustees at Walden School along with her other
friends too. Among her friends, was Brook Forest, who lived two houses away
from Patty Kay and were really good friends. Henrie O' finds out that after
when Craig and bunch of his friends had a poker game night, someone had
plotted him in a way, so that he would be accused of the murder of his
wife. In some cases, many liked Patty Kay and appreciated her, while some
didn't. From knowing a lot of information of Brook Forrest and what she is
like, it happens to be that Henrie O' solved her first case and found out
that Brook is the one who had murdered Patty Kay because she was jealous of
Patty Kay and didn't like what Patty Kay did for Walden School. However,
because this book is filled with mysteries it is really interesting and
upon this I recommend reading this book.
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