Nora Blackbird is putting forth her best effort, as usual.
Busy caring for sister Emma's ponies, trying to keep
Blackbird Farm's plumbing functional, and working on her
society column for the Intelligencer, Nora really doesn't
have the time or energy to take on more jobs but she does
anyway. Getting a call from sister Libby after being hit by
a car, in truth a non-injurious tap by a Rolls-Royce, Nora
is so relieved by Libby's good health she agrees to take
her four nephews and niece for the week. Unexpectedly
running into Emma while on her way to the office should
have been a good thing, a chance to remind her sister about
the ponies. Instead Nora gets a few surprises: Emma is
wearing one of Michael's t-shirts, Emma has a new
(temporary) job at Philadelphia's Chocolate Festival, and
that Emma is pregnant but won't reveal the father's name.
With her head already in a spin, the bad news continues.
Nora's best friend Lexie has just become the prime suspect
Hoyt's murder, a partner in Lexie's investment firm. While
at the crime scene, trying to help her friend however
possible, Nora opens a closet door to find her father. Her
parents skipped town with money they scammed from people
who used to be their friends. Making for a complete package
of troubled times, Nora's love and ex-boyfriend Michael
seems to be helping her with her family at every turn. The
fact that he's still connected to his mobster dad remains
an issue for them both, but is his family really any worse
to handle than her family? Oh yeah, and who killed Hoyt?
This is the latest entry to the long list of A Blackbird
Sisters Mystery series. It's always nice to have read the
previous books so you can get that feeling of revisiting
old friends, but this book can be read on its own just as
well. The family feels like a real family that happens to
have some average members as well as some extremely
eccentric members. If you think this is strictly a funny
mystery, you're wrong. Yes, there is humor, but there's
also plenty of love, family, and friendship too.
The new Blackbird Sisters mystery from the bestselling
author of A Crazy Little Thing Called Death.
Down-to-earth debutante Nora Blackbird is
having a meltdown-and it isn't because of Philadelphia's
heat wave, or an overdose at the city's Chocolate
Festival. A noted Philly philanthropist has taken a swan
dive from an office balcony-and Nora's friend Lexie stands
accused of the murder. Then Nora's scheming parents
reappear, sending all three Blackbird sisters into a
panic. Now Nora must uncover the scandalous hijinks her
parents are plotting-before she winds up taking all the
heat and strangling her father with his own ascot.
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