An Intimate Murder
by Stacy
Verdick Case
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BLURB:
A
Catherine O'Brien Mystery.
When
Jonathan and Susan Luther are murdered in their home, St. Paul homicide
detective Catherine O'Brien and her partner Louise discover this isn't the
first time the Luther family has been visited by tragedy. Is it a case of bad
family luck or is there something more?
EXCERPT:
The world as a whole is a strange place, and the people who inhabit
this world are even stranger. The Luther’s neighbors proved to be the strangest
I’d encountered in ten years of law enforcement. Considering the whackos and
ice-blooded murders I’d run into, these neighbors could be proud of their over
achieving ways.
The street looked benign, an affluent tree lined parkway
with a BMW or Mercedes in every other driveway. The neighbor across the street
had a pickup truck in their drive, but it turned out to be the yard man’s, who
happened to be cleaning up the left behinds from the oak and maple fall
deposits. Pretty to look at until they rotted into brown slime piles on your
grass.
We questioned every neighbor on the block but no one heard
the gunshots. They lived behind triple pane glass where the temperature was never
too hot or too cold. Only one had dared to steal a glance out their insulated
glass when an older car, rusted in too many places and not carrying the
pedigree of a classic automobile, sped down the street.
“I knew right away they were up to no good.” Bernice Leigh,
who claimed a relation to Janet Leigh, rocked on the edge of her tufted, chintz
ottoman.
“Well maybe not right away.” She rolled her hand
dramatically in the air. “At first I thought the car could belong to one of the
boy’s friends who visit the Luther’s from time to time.”
“Did you know the Luther’s very well?” Louise nibbled the
edge of a Ginger Thin Mrs. Leigh had fanned out on a china plate, and placed on
the coffee table in front of us.
Bernice Leigh shook her head with such force that her hair,
which had been so obviously a wig, dislodged itself and canted to one side.
Bernice righted the wig without as much as a second thought.
MY REVIEW:
What I liked:
1.Catherine O'Brien, the heroine, is funny, passionate, and real. Smart too, and I liked her.
2.Her partner Louise is a nice counterpoint to Catherine.
3.To solve this whodunit you'd need to work smart as well as hard, and Catherine did.
4.The plot is complex and things happen that you don't see coming.
5.Catherine makes mistakes and got hurt just like anyone else.
If you're in the market for a well written, interesting detective story, I highly recommend this one. 5 out of 5 stars.
AUTHOR INFO:
Stacy Verdick
Case was born in Willmar, Minnesota.
After a brief stint as a military brat, where she lived in Fort Sill
Oklahoma and Fort Campbell, Kentucky, her family moved back to Minnesota.
Stacy has
written all her life earning a High School Writer Award and a Daphne Du Mauier
Award for excellence in Mainstream Mystery/Suspense.
Stacy
currently lives in a suburb of St. Paul with her husband of twenty-years, her
five-year-old daughter, and their two cats.
An Intimate
Murder is the third book in the Catherine O’Brien series.
Visit Stacy
on the web:
www.StacyVerdickCase.com
Twitter
@SVerdickCase
https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Grand-Murder/265021126858004
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5094848.Stacy_Verdick_Case
Stacy will award a $50 Barnes and Noble GC to one winner, and a signed ARC of An Intimate Murder (US only) to two randomly drawn winners via rafflecopter during this tour and her standard tour. You can find her tour schedule at http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2014/09/review-tour-intimate-murder-by-stacy.html
Thank you so much! I am honored to be part of your blog today and I'm even more grateful that you enjoyed An Intimate Murder. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI liked the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rita and Edgar! I appreciate you dropping by for a read!
ReplyDeleteYour book really was good, Stacy. Good luck with the series.
ReplyDeleteThanks Elaine! I appreciate your kind words. Many blessings to you!
DeleteI loved the excerpt!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary!
ReplyDeleteNice review
ReplyDelete