Monday, February 24, 2020

Blown Away (A Kite Shop Mystery #1)

Author:  Clover Tate
Genre:   Mystery

Mass Market Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #:  9780425283547
Berkley Publishing
292 Pages
$7.99; $7.99 Amazon
February 7, 2017


Emmy is finally living her dream.  She's moved to the coastal town of Rock Point, Oregon, and is starting a kite business.  Strings Attached features her own unique designed, inspired by everything from Picasso to Matisse's colorful cutouts.  Her spirits are soaring sky-high the morning of the grand opening - until she stumbles upon a dead man washed up on the beach.

The body belongs to local chef Miles Logan, and the gash across his chest indicates he's been murdered.  The sheriff suspects Emmy's best friend, Avery, who used to date the chef.  Emmy is sure Avery would never hurt anyone, but her pal doesn't have an alibi for the night of the murder.  With Avery's freedom and the fate of her kite shop up in the air, Emmy takes it upon herself to follow the string of clues and solve the murder before the real killer takes flight.

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When Emmy moves to the coastal town of Rock Point, Oregon, it's to live her dream of opening a kite shop.  She figures that since the other kite shop in town sells different types from hers, there's plenty of room for two.  But she doesn't figure on the dead body she finds on the beach, nor the fact that her roommate Avery is suspected of killing the man.  So Emmy decides to find out who really did kill him, and hopes that she can get there before Avery is sent away for good...

I picked up this book because it had a different premise, but it would have been better if I'd just left it alone.  How big is this town that two kite shops can sustain in it?  Are there really that many people that fly kites in this town?  To be fair, even though I live in a large city (and have always made city living my life) I've never seen anyone flying kites anywhere, and I haven't flown any since I was kid.
Now, I'm not saying people don't; I'm sure they do or they'd stop making them.  I'm merely pointing out that this town has a lot of kite-flyers.  Just sayin'

At any rate, Emmy comes off as self-important and thinks others are beneath her.  She seems to think she's smarter than everyone, including the police.  This is not the type of protagonist that I'm interested in reading about, and I won't be reading any more in the series.  Sorry.

https://www.amazon.com/Blown-Away-Kite-Shop-Mystery/dp/0425283542/ref=

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3204922312

More on Clover Tate's Books:  https://www.fantasticfiction.com/t/clover-tate/

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