Book 50, 2014
Sep. 19th, 2014 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeFirst of all...
WOO-HOO! Fifty books! My goal this year was to read thirty. Heh.
Last night, I finished reading A Veiled Deception by Annette Blair. It is the first book in her "Vintage Magic Mystery" series.
Madeira "Maddie" Cutler returns home to help her younger sister plan her wedding. Maddie is a fashion designer in New York, and her personal passion runs to vintage clothing. At the engagement party, the woman who was making a play for Maddie's future brother-in-law is found strangled to death...with the bride's veil. Maddie is determined to prove her sister did not commit murder. Fortunately for Maddie, her on-again-off-again boyfriend is an FBI agent. Unfortunately for Maddie, the chief of police is the guy whom she tormented in school.
In addition to trying to solve a murder and plan a wedding, Maddie has to help her sister deal with an over-bearing future mother-in-law, and now she's having visions when she handles the vintage wedding gown that her sister is to wear. Maddie is convinced that the clue to the present-day murder can be found in the past, as revealed to her in visions.
The book was largely fun and lighthearted. The author introduced many colorful characters, and I am looking forward to reading more in the series.
Four stars:
★★★★
WOO-HOO! Fifty books! My goal this year was to read thirty. Heh.
Last night, I finished reading A Veiled Deception by Annette Blair. It is the first book in her "Vintage Magic Mystery" series.
Madeira "Maddie" Cutler returns home to help her younger sister plan her wedding. Maddie is a fashion designer in New York, and her personal passion runs to vintage clothing. At the engagement party, the woman who was making a play for Maddie's future brother-in-law is found strangled to death...with the bride's veil. Maddie is determined to prove her sister did not commit murder. Fortunately for Maddie, her on-again-off-again boyfriend is an FBI agent. Unfortunately for Maddie, the chief of police is the guy whom she tormented in school.
In addition to trying to solve a murder and plan a wedding, Maddie has to help her sister deal with an over-bearing future mother-in-law, and now she's having visions when she handles the vintage wedding gown that her sister is to wear. Maddie is convinced that the clue to the present-day murder can be found in the past, as revealed to her in visions.
The book was largely fun and lighthearted. The author introduced many colorful characters, and I am looking forward to reading more in the series.
Four stars:
★★★★
