Book 9, 2020

Evil Deeds: A Tarot Card Mystery by Ashley Carrillo

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I finished reading Evil Deeds last night. It's the third installment in Ashley Carrillo's "Tarot Card" mystery series. The story is told in first person pov by the main character, Tasha Costerman, who fancies herself a psychic.

When Tasha learns that her mother dislikes her brother Jason's girlfriend, Liz, as much as she does, Tasha offers to do a Tarot reading to find out if Liz can be trusted. While she doesn't learn anything concrete, Tasha can't help but notice that ever since Jason and Liz visited, her home seems to be harboring a negative entity. She must enlist the aid of her boyfriend's grandmother to help rid her house of the evil spirit, and Tasha also enlists the aid of her circle of acquaintances to get to the bottom of the Liz conundrum.

I'm a tad disappointed in this one. There was no actual mystery to solve, although that was a refreshing change from the usual run-of-the-mill murder mystery. Editing wasn't much improved over the previous books in the series, but the humor was not up to par with what I was expecting. Tasha is still quite funny, and she manages to get herself into the darnedest predicaments, but this book just didn't have the flair the prior two did.

Favorite line: "My best friend is over there helping the enemy make plans to terminate me, and food is all you're worried about?"

Giving this one an average rating.