Genre: Mystery
Hardcover; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9781643853048
Crooked Lane Publishing
$26.99; $12.99 Amazon
May 12, 2020
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Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her quirky town of Vienna, Virginia, starting her new life as a bookbinder in her family-owned, charm-for-days bookshop, Prose & Scones. With her trusty German Shepard RBG - 'Ruff Barker' Ginsburg by her side, what can go wrong? Okay, sure, bumping into her ex, Scott, or her former high school nemesis, Tricia, is a drag. It certainly doesn't help they have acquired the new hobby of shoving their recent engagement in her face every chance they get. But that doesn't mean Quinn wanted to find Tricia dead in the road. So why does half the town think she may have done it?
Quinn is determined to find Tricia's killer, even if it means partnering with her cousin-turned-nun, Sister Daria, and Detective Aiden Harrington, her older brother's too-movie-star-handsome-for-his-own-good, best friend. They believe she's innocent, but of course that doesn't influence the police, who peg her as their prime suspect. Or, at least until she's poisoned.
But there is no way Quinn is going to stop now. Vienna is her town and - for better or worse - Tricia was one of their own. Someone may have killed the mocking girl, but no one's going to stop the notorious QVC.
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First off, I have to say that the blurb is off. Quinn isn't really suspected of murder, and no one poisons her. I just wanted to make that clear.
Quinn has returned home, working as a bookbinder in her parents' bookstore after three years overseas teaching English in other countries. It seems everyone in the town welcomes her back with open arms. After one of the high school 'mean girls', Tricia, makes a point to show Quinn her engagement ring - from Quinn's ex-boyfriend, Quinn assures her it's fine and she's happy for her. But when she comes across the body of Tricia, she's suspected of murdering the girl out of jealousy...for a heartbeat only. Now Quinn thinks she needs to find the real killer so her life can get back to normal...only if she can keep her mind off the hot detective and the real killer doesn't get too close...
I will say that I really, really, wanted to like this book. The writing is very good, which is why I gave it any stars at all. But there were things that bothered me:
✻An officer of the law does not accuse someone of murder without proof, nor physically grab a witness to 'haul them in'.
✻Why would Quinn just get up and go out in the middle of the night with her dog (who apparently can tell when a crime is about to be committed but not control their own bladder). Trained police dogs can search for suspects, but they don't jump out of the police car on their own because they know a crime is occurring. (Especially since they're kept in the back seat with the windows up, and there's bars between the front and back, so unless the dog was capable of doing a magic act, it would be impossible for the dog to jump out on their own).
✻Everyone kept saying how smart Quinn was, but she thought it was okay to find information then keep it from the police.
✻How did she take pictures with her phone when the police had it and then they didn't give it back to her until the next day?
✻The police would not arrive with lights and siren on just because someone found a piece of evidence.
✻Police dogs are trained to go for a limb, not the throat. They use all their teeth - both top and bottom - and it rips into the skin because they need to hold on, so if they went for the throat they would probably kill the suspect, which is something the officer does not want to happen. I also thought it was ridiculous when she said that Reuger would chase criminals on his own. How did he know? Did he chase someone running and assume it was a criminal? So this wasn't believable to me.
Since the author doesn't do her homework as far as how police officers work, I won't be reading any more of these books. Sorry.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3458042100
More on Harper Kincaid's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Harper-Kincaid/e/B00UB6QP3Y?ref
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