Pomona Afton is a millennial lady, privileged, some might say. She lives a carefree life in Manhattan, flitting from party to opening to gala. Everything has a price, and her lifestyle is about to end. Maybe she really is as empty-headed as most people assume. Her family included. Or maybe – just maybe – POMONA AFTON CAN SO SOLVE A MURDER.
Pom, as she’s known in this unusual mystery, seldom goes anywhere off Manhattan Island, except by private jet, and only knows a few inhabitants by name. Not the serving staff in her family’s expensive hotels. Not her manicurist or barista. She does have girlfriends. As for her family, there’s nothing like a sudden death to sort out how people really feel.
Pom’s controlling, mean, grandmother is killed in her apartments at the main hotel one night. Her assets are frozen and the family members discover that due to a clause in her will, they have to vacate the premises and can’t access money until the murderer is discovered. Since nobody knew about the will, it made them all suspects.
Stifling sobs at the hitch in gaining her inheritance, Pom has to stay in a tiny apartment with her brother Nicholas and his girlfriend Jessica, then gets to rent the basic spare room with Gabe, the son of her former nanny. Pom’s family just paid her bills and didn’t expect her to work besides being an influencer online, but now her friends are dropping her, she has to get a job serving coffee, and money doesn’t go very far. Gabe reminds Pom that his mom was supposed to get a pension from the family assets, and that starts them working together to try to solve the mystery of who had access to the suite to murder the elderly lady.
The likeable side to Pom is quick to surface when she finds the cat she was told ran away ten years previously. Turns out her parents gave him to Gabe. Squeaky still remembers her. To get along with Gabe, she starts baking, which proves a hit. This was so much like a reality TV show about life-swapping that I regularly laughed. Pom doesn’t miss parties that much, but a side of socialites in Manhattan is revealed which should make their followers think. As well, of course, as the murder.
Bellamy Rose also writes romantic comedies as Amanda Elliot. In POMONA AFTON CAN SO SOLVE A MURDER she brings to life a young woman in need of change who grows from facing up to challenges and her family attitudes. The book is suitable for mature teens and adults. I hope we’ll meet Pom again.
A spoiled heiress must investigate her grandmother’s death in order to gain back her trust fund, all while discovering how to be her own person and maybe even in falling in love in this rom-com meets murder mystery.
When Pomona Afton, Upper East Side hotel heiress, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmother’s murder, her first thought is that the society queen won’t be missed for her kind, cookie-baking ways. In fact, she was mean, greedy, and paranoid—so paranoid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that, should she die an unnatural death, all the family assets get frozen. And if the “unnatural death” isn’t explained? Those accounts stay frozen.
Practically overnight, Pomona is locked out of her penthouse with no other option than to move in with a roommate: Gabe, the irritable (yet handsome) son of her former nanny. Not only is his apartment cramped, but it doesn’t even have a doorman. Or a chef! Pom needs someone to solve this murder, like, yesterday, so she can get her trust fund back.
And Gabe? He needs this murder solved because that’s the only way his mother, who toiled for the Afton family for years, will ever get the retirement money she deserves. As Pom’s family clams up, blocking the police at every turn, Pom quickly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back, she’s going to have to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herself…with the help of Gabe, who she’s falling for more and more by the day.
Can Pomona Afton (who previously couldn’t solve a crossword in the bath on a hungover Sunday) actually solve this murder? And if she does return to her former life of luxury, will it be worth the possibility of losing Gabe?
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