Berkley Prime Crime
Featuring: Camilla Graham; Lena London
304 pages ISBN: 0425282600 EAN: 9780425282601 Kindle: B016JPTK46 Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
An aspiring author's dreams come true, but what should be
the happiest time in her life is tainted with murder.
Fresh from grad school, Lena London has a plumb job
opportunity fall into her lap. She and her cat, LeStrade,
pack up and head to Blue Lake, Indiana to join Lena's
favorite author, Camilla Graham, in her century-old home.
Lena's interactions with the residents in the jeweled
environs of Blue Lake add depth to the tale and hints of
the mysteries to come without distracting from the main
story line. Buckley's beautiful descriptions of the town
add even more pleasure to the reading
experience.
Although I had some trouble toward the middle of the book
with some of Lena's reactions and general youthful
exuberance (she gets a bit of exercise jumping to
conclusions) it never rings false or against her
characterization and such instances are nicely balanced
by the more mature outlook of Camilla.
Although there are two distinctly mysterious story lines,
they are very clearly separated and not at all confusing.
In retrospect, clues are definitely dropped before the
reader's eyes, but the story kept me guessing pleasurably
until the breath-stealing conclusion.
Julia Buckley is a skilled and tricky author in the best
possible way for a cozy mystery. Even though I had
difficulty warming to Lena at first, by the time I
reached the end I was firmly in love with the characters,
perhaps even more because of the bit of rocky beginning I
experienced. I emphasize, any difficulty sprang from my
own personal taste, and is not reflective of the strength
of Buckley's writing ability.
Julia Buckley's DARK AND STORMY MURDER is the first of a
new suspenseful series of cozy mysteries, and I am
hooked. Although the main mystery is definitely and
satisfactorily solved, there is an enticing bit of
business left to pursue in book two of the series,
hopefully coming soon! I recommend the book to cozy
mystery fans, perhaps especially to those of us who dream
of picking up a pen ourselves.
An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime, in the first in a captivating new series by the author of the Undercover Dish Mysteries.Lena London's literary dreams are coming true—as long as she can avoid any real-life villains... Camilla Graham’s bestselling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla’s new assistant, she can’t believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she’ll get to live rent-free in Camilla’s gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana. But Lena’s fortune soon changes for the worse. First, she lands in the center of small town gossip for befriending the local recluse. Then, she stumbles across one thing that a Camilla Graham novel is never without—a dead body, found on her new boss’s lakefront property. Now Lena must take a page out of one of Camilla’s books to hunt down clues in a real crime that seems to be connected to the novelist’s mysterious estate—before the killer writes them both out of the story for good...
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