Money is in very short supply for Nora Blackburn and her
fiancé Michael, and Gus, the new boss at the Philadelphia
Inquirer, is letting reporters go at the speed of sound.
Nora's job is hanging by a very loose thread but her
blueblood lineage and the connections she has with the
crème-de-la-crème will keep her employed at the Inquirer.
Nora's baby sister Emma has moved out of the family home,
with no explanation, and her sister Libby is acting like a
stage mother on speed trying to get her weird twin sons
into show business. Libby's oldest child, Rawlins, has a
new girlfriend that is more than likely pregnant, but that
is a hush-hush secret that only Nora and Mick know.
Nora refuses to put her name on the tabloid trash that Gus
rewrites for the paper, but even still Noras friends know
where the information is coming from. When a neighbor
that is a member of the upper crust is stabbed to death
with a pitch fork in a pig sty, Nora is very afraid that
Rawlins is involved in some way. Keeping Gus happy by
feeding him little harmless bits of information about the
killing without involving Nora's nephew is stressing our
heroine to the point of possible stomach ulcers and over-
eating. Also, the strain between the three Blackbird
sisters is tearing Nora to pieces.
LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF MURDER truly puts the fun in
dysfunctional relationships, including one Mick is having
with a pig that has wandered over to the Blackbird farm.
The Blackbird Sisters series is quite possibly the
best cozy
mystery in publication -- there is never a dull moment.
Nancy Martin's impeccable narrative of how the other half
live along with her seamless plotlines; and, her strong,
interesting, and mightily flawed characters are a treasure
for her lucky readers.
Nora Blackbird may have been to the manor borne, but these
days money is so tight, she can’t afford to lose her job as
a society columnist. So when her new boss at the
Philadelphia Intelligencer—Australian tabloid editor Gus
Hardwicke—tells her to work the celebrity gossip beat or
start checking the want ads, the choice is easy.
Now Nora’s writing a profile on billionaire fashion designer
Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech
organic farm with his new wife, Zephyr, a former supermodel.
But before Nora can get the story, the mogul is murdered.
And now Gus wants her to snap up an exclusive on who killed
Starr before the cops do.
But solving a celebrity murder isn’t easy with a home life
as colorful as Nora’s. Her sort-of-husband, Mick, a former
mobster, is associating once again with unsavory characters.
Her sister Libby is on a mission to get her diabolical twins
on stage or screen with the help of an unscrupulous former
child star. And the youngest Blackbird sister, Emma, just
got kicked out of the house by Mick—who refuses to explain
why.
If anything can bring the blue-blooded Blackbird sisters
together, it’s a murder investigation involving high-society
events, glamorous people, and the disappearance of a
genetically perfect pig that may or may not be basking in
the sun at Blackbird Farm. They’ll all have to pull together
this time, because if Nora can’t bring home the bacon, she
might have to exchange her bucolic estate for a cramped
walk-up.
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