Book 30, 2026
Apr. 7th, 2026 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A Party To Die For by Gillian LarkinView all my reviews
I knocked back A Party to Die For in one sitting. It’s the third book in Gillian Larkin’s “Julia Blake” series of cozy mysteries. One sitting because it was short, not great.
Julia owns and operates a cleaning business. Today, however, she’s helping her sister Anna with a catering gig. The party is for the daughter of one of Julia’s clients, Fiona. Things are going well, but Fiona is stressed because she wants everything to be perfect. Julia suggests she go lie down for a brief period, but when she checks on Fiona later, the woman is dead in her bed. The DI has told Julia to keep her nose out of his investigation, but she can’t help her curious nature.
An okay read. Neither awful nor great. Characters were so-so. Despite how short the story was, the plot at least made sense.
Favorite line: “Why do children’s parties have to be such a nightmare?”
Short and simple, average score of three.
