Margo Tamblyn, works as a Magician's Assistant in
Sin City. She returns home, to Proper City, Nevada, which
is a hop, skip and
a jump from Las Vegas, when her beloved father
suffers a heart attack. She must take care of his costume
shop Disguise DeLimit, which is his pride and joy and
perfect for
costume/theme
parties, which are very popular in this town (The town has
storybook street
names. Imagine living in a house on the corner of Pooh
Bear Drive and Winnie Lane?). Margo is
asked by local trust-fund baby, Blitz Manner, 26, to plan a
birthday costume party for him—a detective
theme with 40 costumes of famous
sleuths.
At the party, Blitz is fatally stabbed. When Ebony,
Margo's BFF and mother
figure who is catering the event, is found
standing next to the bloody body holding a carving knife,
she
becomes the prime suspect for his murder. Refusing to
believe Ebony is the killer, Margo begins her own
investigation. Margo is a sassy and gutsy super sleuth.
She follows a trail that leads her to many suspects and has
many twists and turns. In the end, the killer may surprise
you.
A DISGUISE TO DIE FOR is a very cleverly written whodunit
with some pulse pounding suspense. Her characters are
colorful and lots of fun. I particularly enjoy the
handsome Tak Hoshiyama, and he cooks
too! How romantic is it when he takes
Margo to his family's restaurant after hours and becomes a
teppanyaki chef just for her? I have the feeling Tak will
return in Ms,
Vallere's next book, which I will be waiting to read and
enjoy. A DISGUISE TO DIE FOR is highly recommended and in
addition to
being a delicious read has fun recipes, costume ideas, and
an
excerpt of the next costume shop mystery, MASKING FOR
TROUBLE. You have a new fan, Diane Vallee. A DISGUES TO
DIE FOR is
fun, exciting and very creative with Margo Tamblyn, a pure
delight talking things through with her cat, Soot. She's a
good
daughter, but will she carry on Disguise DeLimit and
discover it
is where she is meant to be? Time will tell and so will
the next book, coming soon, I hope.
Someone is dressed to kill in the debut Costume Shop
Mystery from the national bestselling author of the Material
Witness mysteries.
No sooner does former magician’s assistant Margo Tamblyn
return home to Proper City, Nevada, to run Disguise DeLimit,
her family’s costume shop, than she gets her first big
order. Wealthy nuisance Blitz Manners needs forty costumes
for a detective-themed birthday bash. As for Blitz himself,
his Sherlock Holmes is to die for—literally—when, in the
middle of the festivities, Margo’s friend and party planner
Ebony Welles is caught brandishing a carving knife over a
very dead Blitz.
For Margo, clearing Ebony’s name is anything but elementary,
especially after Ebony flees town. Now Margo is left to play
real-life detective in a town full of masked motives,
cloaked secrets, and veiled vendettas. But as she soon
learns, even a killer disguise can’t hide a murderer in
plain sight for long.
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