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Sleuthing For A Living

Sleuthing For A Living, July 2016
Mackenzie & Mackenzie PI #1
by Jennifer L. Hart

Gemma Halliday Publishing
Featuring: Mackenzie Elizabeth Taylor
ISBN: 015299324X
EAN: 2940152993240
Kindle: B01H4DBPJA
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"Fans of Gilmore Girls will adore SLEUTHING FOR A LIVING, the next hit in cozy mysteries!"

Fresh Fiction Review

Sleuthing For A Living
Jennifer L. Hart

Reviewed by Teresa Cross
Posted August 10, 2016

Mystery Cozy

SLEUTHING FOR A LIVING by Jennifer L. Hart will be one of my new favorite cozy mystery series! This is the debut for the series Mackenzie & Mackenzie P.I., about a single mother, Mackenzie raising her teenage daughter, Mac, all while she decides to go into the Private Investigating business without a clue what she is doing. What I really loved about this story line is that I could relate to the main character, Mackenzie, and her relationship with her daughter. She is witty and determined in everything she does. Her relationship with her sixteen year old is one of friend as well as mom. This little novel has the feel and homeliness of the Gilmore Girls. If you love them, then you will love SLEUTHING FOR A LIVING! It has the same charm and humor between the two main characters leaving you laughing throughout each chapter. It is that mother-daughter bond that makes it one of the reasons that you will love this book. Mackenzie inherits her uncle's half of an apartment building and moves with her daughter Mac, (yes, named after her but you will have to read it to find out why) to Boston. Not only did she take over her uncle's place but she also decided to take a hand in his field of living. The only trouble is... she knows not a thing about being a Private Investigator. She meets some of the tenants that live in her uncle's building from Nona who is like a grandma, to the hot, hunky police detective who keeps her from thinking straight. For Mackenzie's first case she is hired to follow her client's husband for a custody case and he shows up dead on her first night. Now her client is under suspicion and she is trying to get down to the truth. It might work a little better for her if she knew what she was doing. However, she doesn't stop at anything, even putting herself unknowingly in danger to get to the bottom of things and find the real killer. All the characters are delightful as Mackenzie and Mac and just as hilarious. You will meet more of them that add that certain comedy to the storyline. Jennifer L. Hart has created a mystery that I most certainly want more of. SLEUTHING FOR A LIVING is sure to be a hot hit!

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SUMMARY

As a young single parent, Mackenzie Elizabeth Taylor has struggled to provide for her teenage daughter. She finally catches a break when she inherits half of an apartment building in Boston from her uncle Al...along with his P.I. business. So what if she doesn’t know the first thing about investigation or if their hot-but-crabby downstairs tenant is a police detective who’s looking for any excuse to handcuff her? Her daughter, Mac the computer whiz, has her back. And these two girls don’t know the meaning of the word quit—not even when their first case takes an unexpected turn. The man Mackenzie's been hired to follow in a custody case seems to have upset more than just her client when she spies another person tailing him—a mysterious man Mackenzie would bet is up to no good. But when her mark suddenly winds up dead, and her first and only client is accused of his murder, Mackenzie vows to find the truth. Only one problem: she doesn’t know where to start…or when to draw the line. Who is the mysterious man she spotted tailing the victim? Is he the killer? Is she in over her head, or will she uncover the secrets someone killed to keep hidden? Mackenzie and Mackenzie are on the case, and the world of private investigation will never be the same.


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