Author: Cordelia Rook
Genre: Mystery
Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9798424657863
Independently Published
222 Pages
$8.99; $.99 Amazon
February 22. 2022
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Delighted by the promise of living and working in a glittering Gilded Age mansion, Minerva Biggs moves to idyllic Bryd Hollow, North Carolina with her dog Plantagenet. She's looking for a new beginning; what she finds is five quite possibly deranged people, four French bulldogs, two distracting dimples attached to one inconvenient man...and one murder.
Nope, make that two murders. When Minerva makes a connection between her new employer's fatal fall and the death of his celebrated great-grandfather in the same spot more than a century before, she doubts that either was an accident. Delving into old secrets and new grudges, she begins to unravel the twisted threads that bind the past to present. Right up until she tangles them around the wrong guy. Oops.
With a trial looming, a scandal raging, and her job prospects dwindling, Minerva races to solve both crimes. Preferably before her new beginning comes to an unfortunate end.
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Minerva Biggs accepts a job as a personal assistant in Bryd Hollow, North Carolina, bringing along her very large dog, Plantagenet, assured that he's welcome. But when she's injured by her employer the first day, and her dog is also a target, she at first rethinks, then decides she has nowhere else to go, so lets it slide.
Not long after, her new employer is found dead, and she finds her own job in jeopardy. Convinced it was not an accident, and might actually be related to the death of his great-grandfather over a century before in the same spot, she sets out to find a killer. Unfortunately, in doing so she might also find herself a casualty...
When I saw this book I really liked the plot line, so thought I would give it a try. It started out well, but unfortunately, soon became boring to me. It just could not hold my attention. I would like to know why she left her job as a teacher. What was the point of installing her in the mansion if she wasn't going to stay there? At that point, the book lost my interest completely, and I really didn't care what happened or who was the murderer. It just became another cozy about a woman who is penniless, homeless, and doesn't know what to do with her life.
I skimmed to the end just to see what happens, and while it was well written (hence the three stars), I didn't find anything here that would make me read the next in the series. Sorry.
More on Cordelia Rook's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/r/cordelia-rook/
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