Cece Caruso loves vintage clothing and writing biographies about famous deceased mystery writers. When she hears about a retirement development being built with an Agatha Christie theme to it, she can't wait to help with its grand opening. After all her latest biography is about Agatha Christie!
The development is called CHRISTIETOWN and its developer, Ian Christie, is very mysterious. Ian Christie claims to be related to the famous Agatha Christie but Cece has other thoughts about this. Something fishy is going on at CHRISTIETOWN and she is determined to find out what the big mystery is.
Cece has planned to put on an Agatha Christie play at CHRISTIETOWN for its grand opening. When it's time for the show to happen, the star is nowhere to be found. When the woman ends up dead, Cece runs through suspects in her head. Did someone kill this woman? What is their motive for the crime?
In the meantime, Cece's ex husband and fiancΓ© show up at her door. Cece's daughter is pregnant and due to give birth any day now. Plus Cece is planning a wedding of her own but somehow the date and plans keep getting pushed back. How will she be able to concentrate on the biography with so much going on around her?
When Cece starts going undercover to investigate CHRISTIETOWN she learns it has its problems. When another murder happens, she realizes she needs to solve this mystery before she becomes another casualty.
With an Agatha Christie biography to write, a pregnant daughter, a wedding to plan, an ex husband in town, and now two murders to solve, how will Cece keep it all together?
Even though CHRISTIETOWN is rather short at 280 pages, I felt the writing dragged and the mystery wasn't captivating enough to hold my interest. The reasoning for the crimes and the conclusion were not satisfying to me. This book was geared towards fans of Agatha Christie. I found it interesting to read about Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance but after a while, I had my fill of Agatha trivia. Overall this is a fun cozy mystery, but it may not leave all readers satisfied at the end.
All is not well in Christietown; its secrets are as
complicated as the truth behind Agatha Christie's real-life
disappearance. The developer, an Englishman who claims to be
Dame Agatha's descendent, has ruthless investors breathing
down his neck. Meanwhile, Cece's got a wedding to plan, a
baby shower to give, and an ex-husband who shows up on her
doorstep with his fiancΓ©e and future mother-in-law. And when
another body surfaces, the intrepid amateur sleuth knows she
must play the famed detective for real-or suffer the same
mysterious fate.
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