So, funny story about this book. It caught my eye this summer and I added it to my list of possible books for our FHS Book Club, since it is not a "Christian" book. Amazingly, everyone chose it to read for our second book! I was thrilled, until .... I realized it is a new book so it was very pricey. But no one seemed to mind so on I went.
Then I started reading it and really, really loved it! It was the type of book I thoroughly enjoyed, written in a funny, lighthearted style. But the -- Yikes! I realized all the other books we have read for that Book Club are NOT written in funny, lighthearted style! And then I got afraid no one would like it and they would say mean stuff about it! So, fingers crossed, maybe some people liked it! :)
Olivia Blunt is thrilled to be hired as assistant to the nationally renowned investigator Aubrey Merritt. She longs to become a valued contributor to the great detective’s work, but Merritt is a difficult, exacting boss, and the learning curve is steeper than she expected. After weeks of boring computer work, Olivia is finally invited to join Merritt on an important case. On the night of her sixty-fifth birthday party, Victoria Summersworth somehow fell over her balcony railing to her death on the rocky shore of Vermont’s Lake Champlain. She was a happy woman—rich, beloved, in love, and matriarch of the preeminent Summersworth family. The police ruled her death a suicide, but Victoria’s daughter Haley thinks it was murder. Merritt and Olivia soon discover that the Summersworth family is complicated web of lies, ambitions, and resentments. As the list of suspects grows, Olivia makes one apparent mistake after another. When she blunders into a truly dangerous situation, she realizes Merritt might be right: she might be in over her head with this whole detective thing…or she might be unravelling a mystery even bigger than the one they started with. (picture and description at Amazon)
So now, finally, I get to start reading Christmas books!
O:)
Melissa
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