Book 51, 2016
Jul. 19th, 2016 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeOnce again, I stayed up too late to finish a book, but I had to know who done it!
I read Tails, You Lose, which is the second installment in Carol J Perry's "Witch City" mystery series.
After losing her job as a TV psychic, Lee volunteers to teach at Salem's Tabitha Trumbull Academy of the Arts. During renovations, a local handyman disappears in the basement of the "Tabby" and is later found dead near the water. As a result, Lee reluctantly taps into her clairvoyant abilities to see if she can help with the police investigation.
In the meantime, Lee involves her students in making a documentary of their building, which used to be Trumbull's Department Store. She's also juggling her budding romance with police detective Pete. As things begin to converge, Lee is afraid one or more of her students may be involved with something other than their classwork, and she still has to figure out the meaning of the vision she had, of a young woman showing her two antique keys.
There was quite a bit going on in the story, but everything came together neatly in the end. The author did a good job of dropping clues without making things either too easy or difficult to discern.
Favorite line: "It's always nice to be welcomed home with purrs and kisses."
Least favorite line: "They seem to be birth dates. Here's John Junior 9/4/1951. And Joseph 11/11/1970..."
Why? Why must even my reading taunt me so?!
Four of five:
****
I read Tails, You Lose, which is the second installment in Carol J Perry's "Witch City" mystery series.
After losing her job as a TV psychic, Lee volunteers to teach at Salem's Tabitha Trumbull Academy of the Arts. During renovations, a local handyman disappears in the basement of the "Tabby" and is later found dead near the water. As a result, Lee reluctantly taps into her clairvoyant abilities to see if she can help with the police investigation.
In the meantime, Lee involves her students in making a documentary of their building, which used to be Trumbull's Department Store. She's also juggling her budding romance with police detective Pete. As things begin to converge, Lee is afraid one or more of her students may be involved with something other than their classwork, and she still has to figure out the meaning of the vision she had, of a young woman showing her two antique keys.
There was quite a bit going on in the story, but everything came together neatly in the end. The author did a good job of dropping clues without making things either too easy or difficult to discern.
Favorite line: "It's always nice to be welcomed home with purrs and kisses."
Least favorite line: "They seem to be birth dates. Here's John Junior 9/4/1951. And Joseph 11/11/1970..."
Why? Why must even my reading taunt me so?!
Four of five:
****
