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Murder by the Book

A Lucy Little Mystery, Book 1

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Murder by the Book

By: Gina LaManna
Narrated by: Brenda Scott Wlazlo
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NEW FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR GINA LAMANNA

Hello, world. My name is Lucy Little, and I'm an author.

Actually, my mom thinks I'm a homeless bum with no health insurance, and my dad truly believes I'm as famous as Brad Pitt. He frequently asks me to sign napkins that he passes out like currency at the local police station where he likes to steal doughnuts. He's a former cop. That probably makes his theft acceptable.

There's only one problem with this whole "author career" of mine, and it's that I'm not actually making all that much money from it. I like to say I have a burgeoning career; I am making a living, but it's a pretty dismal living. But that's all about to change. I've got a new game plan, a pen that's mightier than a sword—but not literally because I'm terrified of violence—and a bunch of words to put down on paper.

Unfortunately, my plan gets thrown out the window the day I stumble upon a real live dead body. The next thing I know, I'm wrapped up neck deep in a murder investigation with the superhot cop who is also my ex-boyfriend. It's all fun and games until the killer starts coming for me, and then I start wondering how I can write the end when I might be next?

©2021 Gina LaManna (P)2022 Tantor Cosy Mystery Fiction Game Career

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I want to say I enjoyed this but the story focused too much on the possible love interest instead of the mystery, so much so that I nearly lost interest. The near misses were just annoying and not cute, in fact I just wished they would hurry up and get together so it could go back to the investigation. I seem to be saying this a lot lately, which makes me think I might need a break from cosy mysteries for a while and it's not actually the books fault. There was a number of good points like I had no clue who the killer was, there was a lot of connection but like Lucy I couldn't make it connect to point at the killer. I liked the characters but for someone who was down on love she certainly kept thing googly eyes a lot. I liked Violet, a teenage geek that didn't care what others thought and thought she was a great character but I didn't really connect with Lucy's mother. She also had some interesting sidekicks who joined her on her sleuthing adventures in Birdy and Yoyo, who are a hoot and not what you expect. The plot idea was fun and it will be fun to see how it develops, As long as the relationship woes don't take up to much of the writing.
When Lucy suffers a betrayal in love it has her moving back home to live in her parents shed and unable to write romance novels. When an ex boyfriend suggest changing genres and try her hand a mysteries she is sceptical but he suggests a ride along with him and she gets to see her first dead body. The murder gives her ideas but it has more to do with can she solve the murder than write a book. Especially when there are more deaths and they have a striking similarity to the murderers a famous author wrote about in his pages book. A man who is visiting town and asked Lucy out on a date. Can she prove us isn't a killer by finding the real killer?
I liked the narrator. She gave the characters all there own voices making the story easy to listen too.

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