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Poisoned By Gilt

Poisoned By Gilt, July 2008
Domestic Bliss
by Leslie Caine

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352 pages
ISBN: 0440336007
EAN: 9780440336006
Mass Market Paperback
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"Going green has never been so dangerous!"

Fresh Fiction Review

Poisoned By Gilt
Leslie Caine

Reviewed by Jennifer Vido
Posted January 5, 2009

Mystery Amateur Sleuth

Erin Gilbert and her business partner Steve Sullivan are back in action as one of the most successful interior design firms in Crestview, Colorado. This time, they have jumped on the environmental bandwagon as part of an earth- friendly design contest that together they hope to win. The competition is fierce as natural fibers are put to the test in hopes of creating the ultimate green home that will dazzle even the most skeptical of critics.

As luck would have it, Steve's former professor and lifelong mentor is selected as one of the three esteemed judges for the contest's panel. Despite his teacher's supposed expertise in the field, Erin has her doubts and starts to question Steve's lack of judgment which undoubtedly causes friction between the pair. While Erin and Steve try their best to work out their differences, the professor winds up mistakenly poisoning himself right before their very eyes.

On a personal mission to bring the killer to justice, Steve starts pointing fingers despite Erin's obvious objections to his plight. With tension mounting, Steve's sudden interest in an attractive divorcée causes ripples in the designing duos on-again, off-again romance. Not willing to play second fiddle, Erin chooses to don her detective hat in hopes of putting the case to rest in order to get her long-overdue love life back on track.

With the competition quickly coming to a head, Erin and Steve scramble to put the finishing touches on the design but are stopped dead in their tracks by a second murder which happens right under their noses. Is this the end for Crestview's golden design team? Or will they be able to come together to draw up a plan to get themselves out of this mess?

POISONED BY GILT is the sixth book in Leslie Caine's highly popular A Domestic Bliss Mystery series. With each installment, Caine devises the most charmingly written mystery filled with choice interior design morsels that make reading her books an absolute delight.

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SUMMARY

Green with envy

To the newly formed design team of Steve Sullivan and Erin Gilbert, it seemed like a great idea: a competition to design and build the most earth-friendly home in Crestview, Colorado. But who would have dreamed that someone’s idea of saving the planet might include murder?

Environmental guru Richard Thayers was Steve Sullivan’s architectural mentor and the judge of the contest. Now he is dead—poisoned by some supposedly nontoxic gold paint. Sullivan is certain that Richard’s demise was no accident, but Gilbert’s not so sure. One thing’s clear, though: the mysterious death is quickly poisoning their burgeoning romantic relationship. Suddenly, when another figure in the contest is killed and Sullivan becomes distracted by an attractive divorcee, Erin goes on a mission: not only to find the killer, but to expose the true Steve Sullivan—and the designs he’s hiding in his heart….


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