Genre: Cozy
Mystery/Humor/Woman Sleuth
Description:
“A series of peculiar and highly suspicious accidents threaten the
life of the Loud Mouth of the South. Can Olive and Lizzy find the predator
before their friend becomes the victim at her own Murder Mystery Party?”
Author:
“Barbara Silkstone's most current series is Florence Nightingale
Comedy Mysteries...The Giggling Corpse,
The Killer Corset, and The Cheeky Coroner. Cozies all.
Silkstone is the best-selling author of both Regency Pride and Prejudice variations,
including the popular the MISTER DARCY SERIES OF COMEDIC MYSTERIES ~ PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE contemporary variations. All her books are light-hearted adventures
based on Jane Austen's timeless tales of love denied and love discovered. ‘Feel
good’ tales to warm your heart.
She is also the author of the Wendy
Darlin Comedy Mystery series. Five coffee-snorting tales that combine cozy
with outrageous adventures.”
For more from Barbara, visit her website and her Facebook page.
Appraisal:
Jamie Toast, Loud Mouth of the South, wants to have a Murder Mystery
Party for an open house where all their friends dress up in roaring twenties
attire. Jamie isn’t really a likeable character, but Olive and Lizzy have
befriended her. The week before her party, mysterious accidents start happening
to Jamie, which could have all been life threatening. All evidence seems to
point to her husband, Chip Toast.
In the meantime, Sophia Napoli, an Italian film star, is considering
backing and endorsing Nonna’s Cold Cream. One of her conditions is that Olive
and Lizzy have to stop their crime busting antics, they would have to leave
that up to the local police. Their involvement wouldn’t reflect well on Sophia.
Olive agrees, but is torn. Being a psychologist, one of the things she does for
the police is profile the people Kal brings in for questioning. She won’t let
that go and figures she could do it on the sly.
Grams, Lizzy’s grandmother, is a spunky old coot who assigns herself,
with her large brass candlestick, as Jamie’s bodyguard. She is also convinced
that Chip is guilty of setting up the traps to kill Jamie. The night of the Murder
Mystery Party Lizzy and Olive are assigned their roles to play. Everyone is
having a good time and the game goes as planned with Jamie and her death scene.
Then one of the party goers falls from one of the balconies and dies. Another
mystery needs to be solved. This woman could have been mistaken for Jamie from
behind. Was this another attempt on Jamie’s life?
Kal, Olive, and Lizzy scramble to clear Chip Toast and find the real
person behind Jamie’s life-threatening attacks. And solve the real murder at
the party. Was the woman pushed or did she jump to her death? Nothing can be
found to link her to any of the party attendees. Olive invited her and her
guest to the party. All possible leads are dead ends. Join Kal, Olive and Lizzy
as they try to solve an unsolvable mystery…
FYI:
Sun Scream is book 4 in Ms. Silkstone’s, COLD CREAM MURDERS series. “Each
book contains a recipe for homemade cosmetics!”
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant proofing issues.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate
word count: 45-50,000 words
1 comment:
Thank you so very much for the super review!
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