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Feb 2, 2022  
"The world’s largest oil painting. A 400-year-old murder. A disembodied whisper: “Amore mio.” My love."

Tour: The Prisoner of Paradise (The Paradise Series #1) by Rob Samborn - @Archaeolibrary, @maryanneyarde, @robsamborn, #CoffeePotBookClub, #BlogTour, #Tintoretto, #Venice, #UnlockThePast, #CommercialThriller, #HistoricalFiction, #MagicalRealism,

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Sep 19, 2024  
"A historical mystery spanning France and Sénégal, The Signare of Gorée explores a world of magic, murder, and passion."

Tour: The Signare of Gorée by Laura Rahme - #TheCoffeePotBookClub, #BlogTour, #Historical, #Mystery,

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NYPD Red (NYPD Red, #1)
James Patterson | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry
6
8.0 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
Detective Zach Jordan works for NYPD Red. A distinct branch of the NYPD that is in charge of cases involving the rich and famous He's about to het a new partner and a new case all in the same day. The new partner, Detective Kylie MacDonald is an old lover The new case comes at the start of Hollywood on the Hudson, where the L.A. elite come to examine movie making in New York City. So people in the T.V./movie business will be everywhere.
The Good News: NYPD Red will be busy.
The Bad News: They have a serial killer on their hands.

The first murder is at the Regency Hotel. A movie producer takes a nose dive into his breakfast plate. Not long after arriving on the scene, do they get a call for a murder at Silvercup Studios....and the day begins.

Will they find the killer before half of Hollywood is dead in NYC?

I'm a big James Patterson fan, and this book didn't have as much Umph to it that the Cross or Women's Murder Club books do.
  
Ivy’s latest gig is in The Sound of Cabaret, a mash up of The Sound of Music and Cabaret. She’s also housesitting, and one of her new neighbors dies in his garage. While it looks like a suicide, the man’s daughter hires Ivy and her uncle to find proof he was murdered. Can Ivy balance her first investigation with her new show? Is there even a killer to find?

I enjoyed the first book in this series a few months ago, and I enjoyed this one just as much. There are several sub-plots, and they do take the spotlight from the murder in the first half, but as the book progressed the murder was more center stage. Some of those sub-plots even wound up tying in to the main plot. The characters are a delightfully fun bunch, and they kept me engaged the entire way through. Sprinkle in a good dose of humor and you’ve got another great book.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2016/07/book-review-sound-of-murder-by-cindy.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.