Review of SHOP TILL YOU DROP

SHOP TILL YOU DROP

ELAINE VIETS

 

Review by Author Roy

Helen is on the lamb from a St. Louis Judge who wants to put her in servitude. It all started when she took a crowbar to her ex-husband.

Helen takes a low-paying cash-only job at an exclusive Fort Lauderdale, Florida, women's dress shop. During the few months working, she discovers the manager, Christina, is up to nefarious endeavors.

Then Christina's dead body is found in a barrel floating in the ocean. When repairing the air-conditioner, Helen finds the incriminating information the manager had on her frequent customers.

Who murdered Christina becomes complicated. Using the information she found, Helen has five people Christina has been blackmailing, all affluent customers.

The police are involved, which complicates Helen's investigation. Thumbs, the cat, is the connector that ends a crime spree.

 

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Review of Commitment

COMMITMENT

T.K. LEIGH

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

Brook and Drew fall in love. The problem is she is going on sixteen, and he is soon to be nineteen, going off to college.

Drew makes a promise to Brook but cannot keep it because their fathers stepped in. However, Brook has no idea - he promised.

That is the end of romance. No one tells Brook the truth. Ten years later, nothing has changed.

The story goes back and forth - Brook's comments and Drews comments on how they love each other. Still, no one tells Brook the truth; she has another man who loves her.

This story is not a romance novel. It is a relationship story gone wrong.

T.K. Leigh does write good conversations and pulls the reader into book 2 of this series. However, I had enough of Brook and Drew's B.S.

This novel is for you if you like entanglements that go nowhere (Nouvelles).

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Review of The Watchman of Rothenburg Dies

THE WATCHMAN OF

ROTHENBURG DIES

The Homeswappers

ADRIANA LICIO

Review by Author Roy Murry

According to the Police Inspector of Rothenburg, Dora and Etta are at it again - sticking their noses in places they should not. They are on vacation, house-swapping, when the watchman is murdered on their night town tour.

Dora inherits the watchman's Basset hound, Leon. The dog is a linchpin in finding the killer, and Etta realizes it at the end.

The Inspector is right about the two retired school teachers. They meet everyone associated with the crime, sleuthing when another person dies.

One thing leads to another, and one of our Sherlock Holmes is put in a deadly position. 

This cozy mystery ends in a dog-licking conclusion and hits all the right bells for Book 1 in a series. It is an excellent, fun read.

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Review of GENESIS ACADEMY

GENESIS ACADEMY

The Seer's Legacy, Book 1

 

When you are in your teens, life can be complicated. In her last year of High School, Sophie falls into a whirlwind because of circumstances beyond her family's control.

Her family is at war with a part of their international Order, and her parents want Sophia to be safe, so they send her to Genesis Academy with her cousin Patrick. 'The Chosen One,' Sophia Stanton's life changes as she develops into a Seeterpreter.

Xander and his sister, Bella, become secondary characters, helping Sophia cope with her changes and protecting her from the evil infiltrating the academy. As Sophia's powers get more robust, so do the people who are out to destroy her and her family's legacy.

The unusual ending leads the reader into Book 2. The characters are colorful and exciting enough to follow in this series.

 

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Review of PROFILES in IGNORANCE

PROFILES in IGNORANCE

How America's Politicians

Got Dumb and Dumber

 

ANDY BOROWITZ

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

"In the case of Donald Trump, people's hunger for a false story helped elect the worst president in U.S. history," writes Hollywood elitist and satirist Andy Borowitz. He also believes only Republicans are dumb.

As a non-aligned party voter since 1972, I believe the Democrats have their share of dumbasses. Remember the answer of an Oxford-taught Democrat president, "That depends on what your definition of 'is' is." 

In his wisdom, Andy leaves out every dumb Democrat, and this comic relief is published in September 2022.  One of the dumbest presidents is in the White House, who used Borowitz's definition of political craft for fifty years as a politician - Joe Biden—not mentioned.

Maybe Mr. Borowitz has TDS like Meathead (Rob Reiner), which Andy invented for the All IN THE FAMILY sitcom. Both have some eclectic reading to do.

This rant is a well-documented, one-sided read that will bring back memories if you are fifty or older. If you are younger, you will have yet to learn.

If you are a Democrat leftist, you will love this book. Otherwise, please do not waste your money as I did.

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Review of The Dagger Before Me

THE DAGGER BEFORE ME

A Persephone Cole Vintage Mystery

HEATHER HAVEN

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

Persephone (Percy) Cole differs from your usual detective in 1942 when she received her New York State license. She is a thirty-five-year-old secretary at her father's agency, Cole Investigations.

A producer of the play Macbeth calls the agency, looking for Pop, Percy's father. The play has completion problems, including the death of one of its main characters falling from the theater's catwalk.

Percy takes over the situation and meets with the hot-shot producer Wainwright. After her first encounter, she knows she needs to get the complete story - she starts the sleuthing.

Through a few interviews with some of the cast and other characters, a whirlwind of events brings this fast-paced story to a deadly ending. The reader will be surprised, and Persephone will be an endearing detective to follow in book two of this series.

This book is an enjoyable fast read with vintage historical references.

 

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Review of FOREVER ONLY ONCE

FOREVER ONLY ONCE

CARRIE ANN RYAN

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

This novel is the story of the chance relationship between Hazel and Cross. They meet at a restaurant expecting another person whom they have never met. Building on that moment is endearing.

From that meeting, they click and pursue a long-term one. However, Hazel has an ex-husband who has come out of the woodwork texting her, which causes emotional problems - she hyper-sensitive.

Cross is also in a predicament. His business is falling apart because of his partner's deceit.

Hazel and Cross reach that loving threshold where they are ready to go to the permanent level in their lives together. That is when everything explodes into a bloody event, leaving death and destruction.

Only by reading this well-written romantic novel will you discover if they are still together after that event.

 

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