Title: TAKE
THE TROPHY & RUN
AUTHOR: Gail
Sattler
Publisher:
B&H Books
November 2012
ISBN:
978-1-4336-7729-8
Genre: women’s
fiction
Like Mitford and Lake
Wobegon before that, Bloomfield
The Bloomfield Garden Club, an all-ages group of lovable oddballs that will stop at nothing to make everything beautiful, maintains this piece of heaven on earth. But even such idyllic places as this have their share of
dramatic characters and stories to be told.
Take, for instance, craft store owner Amber Weathersby. She wants to be a member of the garden club but has never received the blessing of a green thumb. Her friend, Stan the mechanic, has helped as much as he can -- even adding a timed sprinkler system to Amber’s garden -- but the results never live up to the club’s expectations.
Her only claim to fame with that gang is her semi-famous garden gnome, Gnorman, who gets to hold the prized trophy each year in the Bloomfield Spring Fling contest’s winning garden.
But this year, instead of being the life of the party, her little star is gnomegnapped, and worse, the club’s irreplaceable trophy has gone missing with him. While Amber is chasing the gnome around town trying to win the trophy, Stan is chasing Amber, trying to win her heart.
The Bloomfield Garden Club, an all-ages group of lovable oddballs that will stop at nothing to make everything beautiful, maintains this piece of heaven on earth. But even such idyllic places as this have their share of
dramatic characters and stories to be told.
Take, for instance, craft store owner Amber Weathersby. She wants to be a member of the garden club but has never received the blessing of a green thumb. Her friend, Stan the mechanic, has helped as much as he can -- even adding a timed sprinkler system to Amber’s garden -- but the results never live up to the club’s expectations.
Her only claim to fame with that gang is her semi-famous garden gnome, Gnorman, who gets to hold the prized trophy each year in the Bloomfield Spring Fling contest’s winning garden.
But this year, instead of being the life of the party, her little star is gnomegnapped, and worse, the club’s irreplaceable trophy has gone missing with him. While Amber is chasing the gnome around town trying to win the trophy, Stan is chasing Amber, trying to win her heart.
TAKE THE TROPHY & RUN is the first
book in Ms. Sattler’s new series A Bloomfield
Who would kidnap a garden gnome and why?
Is someone sinister a member of the garden club?
There are a lot of characters in this
story which makes it confusing at time and it isn’t the best written book I’ve
read—but Ms. Sattler’s trade-mark humor is out in full force. There are a lot
of deliberately misspelled words – like gnaturally (at the end of the book)
with the keeping of the gnome theme. Fans
of Ms. Sattler, cozy mysteries (without bodies and murderers) and humor will
likely enjoy this book. 320 pages $14.99.
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