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Description: Olivia Blunt doesn't want to be an assistant detective for the rest of her life. She's determined to learn everything she can from her mentor and renowned investigator, Aubrey Merritt, but the latter is no easy grader.
After weeks of fielding phone calls from parties desperate for the world-renowned detective’s help, a case comes across Olivia’s desk that just might be worthy of Merritt’s skills. On the evening of her sixty-fifth birthday party, Victoria Summersworth somehow fell over her balcony railing to her death on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain. She was a happy woman—rich, beloved, in love, and matriarch of the preeminent Summersworth family. The police have ruled it a suicide, but her daughter Haley thinks it was murder.
Merritt is ever the skeptic, but Olivia believes Haley. Plus, she’s desperate to prove her investigative skills to her aloof boss. But the Summersworth family drama is a complicated web.
Olivia realizes she might be in over her head with this whole detective thing... or she might be unravelling a mystery even bigger than the one she’d started with.
Genre: Mystery
Why I Picked This Book: How could I resist that title?
My Impression: This was a fun read. Olivia and Aubrey Merritt couldn't be more different if they tried. Audrey is well to do, accomplished and polished and Olivia is ... not any of those things. But what Olivia is lacking in experience or know how she makes up for in enthusiasm which is not always Merritt's favorite thing.
Why I Picked This Book: How could I resist that title?
My Impression: This was a fun read. Olivia and Aubrey Merritt couldn't be more different if they tried. Audrey is well to do, accomplished and polished and Olivia is ... not any of those things. But what Olivia is lacking in experience or know how she makes up for in enthusiasm which is not always Merritt's favorite thing.
The mystery was an intriguing one with lots of possible theories and suspects. Watching Olivia learn from Merritt and Merritt go about her investigation was really interesting.
This was a bit on the long side and the beginning took me a bit to be fully hooked. I enjoyed it from page one but it felt like I wasn't making much progress for the first 20% of the book. That said it was one I was looking forward to seeing how it all played out from the time Olivia and Merritt started investigating.
I'm looking forward to reading more from this author and this does look like it has potential to be a series which should be fun.
Would I Read More of this Series/Author? Definitely! If this is the start of a series I will be on the lookout for the second book but otherwise I'll be looking for more books by this author.
Would I Recommend this Book? If you're a mystery reader looking for something a little different this is a great pick.
* I received this book in exchange for an honest review. As always my opinions and impressions are completely my own. *
Would I Recommend this Book? If you're a mystery reader looking for something a little different this is a great pick.
* I received this book in exchange for an honest review. As always my opinions and impressions are completely my own. *
That is an irresistible title! I'm glad it turned out to be a fun read. It's one I want to check out. :D
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ReplyDeleteI love the title. It sounds like it might be worth a read and hopefully a new series.
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