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Genre/forme: | Detective and mystery stories Detective and mystery fiction Fiction Mystery fiction |
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Type d’ouvrage: | Fiction |
Type de document: | Livre |
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs: |
Melissa Bourbon Ramirez |
ISBN: | 0451234367 9780451234360 |
Numéro OCLC: | 798647309 |
Notes: | "An Obsidian mystery." |
Description: | 303 pages ; 17 cm. |
Responsabilité: | Melissa Bourbon. |
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Fun magical cozy mystery series opener
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Harlow Cassidy has recently returned to Bliss, Texas, after years of working in NYC as a fashion designer. She's set up a custom dressmaking shop in the house her recently deceased great-grandmother left her, and she's eager to get her new business off the ground. However, having a client's bridesmaid murdered in her garden isn't helping, so Harlow is quite motivated to figure out who the real killer is and clear her name.
This is the first installment of a fun cozy mystery series with elements of magic and ghosts. The Cassidy women have all been gifted with various talents thanks to a wish made by their long-dead many-times-great grandfather, Butch Cassidy. (Yes, that Butch Cassidy.) Death doesn't necessarily put an end to these talented women, either, as Harlow comes to realize.
I read this book about the same time I read the first in another magical mystery series, <a style="color: #00635d; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;" title="Secondhand Spirits (A Witchcraft Mystery, #1) by Juliet Blackwell" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6456016.Secondhand_Spirits__A_Witchcraft_Mystery___1_" title="Secondhand Spirits (A Witchcraft Mystery, #1) by Juliet Blackwell">Secondhand Spirits</a> , by Julia Blackwell. Both are enjoyable, but overall, this one feels more like a cozy, despite surface similarities of magical backgrounds, affinity for knowing what clothes someone should wear, trying to get fledgling businesses off the ground, and potential non-magical love interests. It's a bit lighter in tone.
One thing that left me puzzled, though: How in the world did Miriam and the sheriff know to barge into the bathroom there at the end when Harlow was being attacked by the killer? That made no sense. Did I miss something?
For readers' advisors: story doorway is primary, character & setting secondary. No sex or graphic violence, but I think there might have been a couple of mild swear words? I forget--it's been a couple months since I finished it. (I'm just really behind with reviews.)
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