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A Doula to Die For

Redondo and Rose Neighbors in Crime, Book 1

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A Doula to Die For

By: Bonnie Hardy
Narrated by: Mallory Fuccella
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Vivienne Rose, owner of Desert Doulas, arrives home from work to find cops swarming the place and a body floating in her pool.

Her silver fox next-door neighbor, mentalist Rex Redondo, admits that he’s the one who saw the body and called the police. But his involvement in this is far from over. When the police stop investigating the case, due to a personnel shortage, Viv calls on Rex and his roommate, ex-marine Sutton Greer, to help her track down the killer.

Yet the closer they get to the truth, the more questions arise. Why did Rex pocket Viv’s house key? What are Viv’s employees hiding from her? And most importantly, how long will it take for the police to realize Viv and Rex are in real danger?

Suspense and intrigue come to an upscale desert community in this cozy mystery pulled from the headlines!

©2023 Barbra Hardy (P)2024 Barbra Hardy Amateur Sleuths Animals Cosy Mystery Women's Fiction
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I just couldn't get on with this book and in fact I struggled to finish it. There was nothing wrong with the book I just didn't connect with the characters and it seemed very slow. Actually my favourite character was the male leads assistant she seemed more capable than anyone else. I think it was because the main female character connected with her cat more than she did with people, she certainly worried about upsetting him more than she did people, even the detective in charge of investigating the dead body in her pool. The story was told by both the male and female main characters with each chapter dedicated to following them but as the story unfolded they tended to be in the same place anyway, so it was used as a way for the author to let you know what that character was thinking or feeling. It did work and was easy to follow as they switched between the two but I felt it made it harder to connect. The mystery was very slow and she was more worried about her cat, how her Doula staff were letting her down and what the neighbour thought of her than solving the mystery. I did like Sutton and thought with all her tricks, costume changes and skills helping Rex con his audience she would have been much better as the main character and in charge of solving the murder.
When Vivienne returns home, she is surprised to find the police fishing a dead body out of the pool. With her friend missing she is reluctant to look at the body, which is why she gets an even bigger surprise. Her nosy neighbour is the one who spotted the body but is he paying a little bit to much attention to the goings on in her back garden? When the police have a man power shortage it is Rex the famous mentalist and nosy neighbour that she turns to for help in finding out what happened to her friend.
There is one narrator for the book but I personally think it might have worked better if there was a male narrator for Rex's side of the story and a female for Vivienne, not because she did a bad job but just to help the story flow better.

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