{"id":466,"date":"2012-02-25T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=466"},"modified":"2012-02-25T14:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T20:40:24","slug":"kylie-logan-button-holed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/kylie-logan-button-holed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Logan: Button Holed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buttons?\u00a0 What kind of interesting or even passable novel could be written about buttons?\u00a0 Quite an entertaining one, as it turns out, by old pro Kylie Logan, who readers may also know as Casey Daniels or Miranda Bliss.\u00a0 The premise of this cozy is that the central character is the owner of a brand spanking new shop specializing in all kinds of antique and collectible buttons.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Set in Chicago, the brisk pace of the story seems to fit the Windy City quite well, as Logan opens her story with a gigantic bang: when Josie Giancola goes in to open her new button shop, she\u2019s assaulted by two large, ski mask wearing men, who throw her to the ground and sprint away after having ravaged her shop.\u00a0 As she\u2019s left t regard the wreckage, picking up buttons she\u2019d meticulously catalogued , she\u2019s sure the men are tied to her ex with a gambling problem.<\/p>\n

Some parts of the story were predictable, I\u2019ll admit \u2013 when she meets up with the rumpled police detective with whom she\u2019d had a disaster of a blind date, there seems to be only direction for that to go \u2013 but the rest of the story is buoyant and entertaining.\u00a0 As Josie gets her shop thrown back together in anticipation of the arrival of a huge Hollywood star looking for antique buttons for her wedding dress, the stage is set for another layer of storytelling.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood star arrives with many cowed assistants, followed by the paparazzi, and before she knows it, Josie\u2019s shop has attained a certain notoriety, one cemented when said star is found dead in her shop a few days later, and the whole puzzle has a clever tie to buttons.<\/p>\n

I give any cozy author kudos when they can draw their amateur sleuth believably into a detection story line using their character\u2019s expertise, and Logan does this with real aplomb, using a rare handmade boxwood button as a clue.\u00a0 The passion of the collector (and this could apply to any type of collector) is perfectly portrayed as Josie loses some of her common sense hunting for the source of the boxwood button, and perhaps a clue to the killer of the actress.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s just enough detail about buttons and button collecting to give the story some extra snap, but Logan is such a natural storyteller that it\u2019s more of a cherry on top of the cupcake.\u00a0 This is a book you\u2019ll zip through with great enjoyment, knowing a little bit more about buttons than when you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buttons?\u00a0 What kind of interesting or even passable novel could be written about buttons?\u00a0 Quite an entertaining one, as it turns out, by old pro Kylie Logan, who readers may also know as Casey Daniels or Miranda Bliss.\u00a0 The premise of this cozy is that the central character is the owner of a brand spanking … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-americancozy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}