Book 63, 2025

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Drive Me Daisy by Annabel Chase

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


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I finished my most recent ebook early this morning. It was Drive Me Daisy by Annabel Chase, and it’s the third in her “Bloomin’ Psychic” series of cozy mysteries with a paranormal twist. I had books 1-3 in a “box set”, and I decided to read them all. Woo!

Mia is dismayed when her mother comes to town, with husband number three in tow. At least Mia now has a job and a beau, although she refuses to let her mother, Madeline, know she’s sort of dating a lawyer for fear her mother will have them married before she leaves town. In an effort to keep her mother distracted, Mia takes them to a local festival. Too bad someone was murdered, and Madeline’s husband, Jurgen, is the one holding the murder weapon. He claims he pulled the knife out of the woman’s back, but he’s not allowed to leave town during the investigation. Mia had no intention of getting involved again, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Mia is even willing to try out the psychic abilities her friends, Scarlet and Patrick, insist she has. She’ll do anything to speed up the investigation and hasten her mother out of town.

This was as lite and laughable as the first two books in the series. I love Mia’s wit, and I love the enormous cat, Ophelia, that she inherited from her Aunt Hazel. Mia’s abilities, or intuition as she prefers, lead her to question certain people that weren’t even on the police radar. It was entertaining to watch her as she tried to juggle reluctant hostessing duties, avoid being seen with Dane, deal with his exasperating brother, Derek, and try to find out who killed the victim.

Favorite lines:
♦ My mother had an endless supply of criticism for me, yet she was willing to marry someone who was one feather short of a yodeling hat.
♦ I wasn’t sure what the appropriate response was to a vague invitation to a senior orgy.
♦ “Are we sure this isn’t one of the Weasley boys?” // “I’m not sure of anything, but he’s not wearing a Hogwarts uniform.”
♦ “What does a Kentucky situation involve—dueling banjos at dusk?” // “Know your hillbillies, Miss Thorne. That’s ‘Deliverance’.”
♦ Only a man would believe that correcting erectile dysfunction could save lives.
♦ “He’s pansexual and he’s not afraid to prove it. He’d grab a llama’s ass if it walked close enough.”
♦ I had Patrick’s stamp of approval, which was basically like getting Harry Potter to approve your choice of wand.

Lots of laughs and fun! Five stars!