Caprice De Luca is doing very well in her new staging
company. She works with realtors and stages properties on
the market to make them more appealing to buyers, for both
upper-end residences and businesses. The home she is
staging now is castle-like in appearance and Caprice has
chosen a Camelot theme for it. It's a large mansion with
very valuable objects that the owner refuses to put out of
sight for the open house party that is coming up. The
owners, Roz and Ted Winslow, are trying to sell and
downsize. Ted collects sabers, daggers and knives and
wants these on display to potential buyers, much to
Caprice's chagrin. On the night of the open house Caprice
is wandering through the house ensuring things are going
well and when the stager peeks in the master bedroom she
sees Ted kissing someone other than his wife. The next
time Caprice sees Ted he is dead and a very valuable dagger
encrusted in precious gems and made of solid gold is
believed to be the murder weapon. Ted had bought this as a
gift for Roz, and it is not in its showcase. Naturally
his wife Roz is the prime suspect for this killing.
Caprice and Roz were friends in high school and Caprice
knows her friend could not have killed her husband, but the
police have tunnel vision and are not looking at anyone
else for this killing. Looking for clues as to who might
have done this is part of the storyline, but the bulk of
this book is more about introducing way too many characters
that should be introduced separately as the series
unfolds, Including two likely romantic candidates
interested in attracting Caprice's attention.
Karen Rose Smith has peopled STAGED TO DEATH with very well
defined characters, but there are just too many of them for
one tale, and all of their story lines are left hanging
loose and flying hither and yon which is distracting from
the plot. Ms. Smith's culprit is a real surprise!
Welcome to Kismet, PA, where home stager Caprice De Luca
helps her
clients shine in a lackluster real estate market--and where
someone may
only be in the market for murder. . .
Caprice De Luca has successfully parlayed her skills as an
interior designer
into a thriving home staging business. So when her old high
school friend
Roz Winslow asks her to spruce up her mess of a mansion to
perk up a
slow buyer's market, Caprice is more than happy to share her
skills. But
when Roz's husband Ted is found skewered by one of his sword
room's
prized possessions, it appears the Winslows may have a few
skeletons in
their palatial closets. With the stage set for murder,
Caprice will discover
she can track down an antique tapestry and a cold-blooded
killer with
equal aplomb--as long as she's not the next victim. . .
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