Suspect in High Heels is the tenth book in the High Heels cozy mystery series.
Maddie is a shoe designer, mom of two-year-old twins, and wife of a police detective. However, she makes time to visit the set of Antiques Extravaganza with her mother, Betty, and her mother’s best friend. While there, Betty is told that her antique hatpin is worthless. Infuriated, Betty lashes out at the appraiser, Peter Carrington. Unfortunately, Peter is soon found dead by hatpin and Betty is the obvious suspect. With no alibi, Maddie is forced to investigate the crime to save her mother from being charged with murder.
The friendships and camaraderie are my favorite part of this series. Betty’s wacky friend is hilarious. The situations that everyone finds themselves in are good for a laugh for sure. Overall, Suspect in High Heels is an enjoyable way to spend a few hours with characters that soon feel like friends. 4 stars!
Thanks to Gemma Halliday Publishing and Great Escape Blog Tours for a copy in exchange for my honest review.
Suspect in High Heels (High Heels Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
10th in Series
Gemma Halliday Publishing (October 1, 2019)
Number of Pages: 200
Digital ASIN: B07VDGYSR6
When Maddie Springer—shoe designer turned amateur sleuth—tags along with her mother to the Antiques Extravaganza road show, the last thing she expects to have to do is pull her mom off of a celebrity appraiser after he calls her prized antique hatpin a phony. But things go from harried to homicide when the same appraiser is found dead just moments later—killed by Mom’s hatpin!
Now not even Maddie’s husband, LAPD Detective Jack Ramirez, can save Mom as the force’s two most bumbling detectives are assigned to the case. As if Maddie doesn’t have enough on her plate, her best friends, Dana and Marco, enlist her help to plan the most over-the-top Hollywood surprise party ever for Dana’s fiancé (who has a little surprise of his own up his sleeve), Maddie’s adorable twin toddlers are always up to no good, and the only thing that can calm her fashion-challenged and suddenly-a-suspect mom down are aura cleansing from her favorite Venice Beach psychic, Mrs. Rosenblatt. Whether they help or hurt, Maddie’s friends assist her in wading through a slew of murder suspects—none of whom are telling the truth and all of whom have ample motive to want the appraiser dead. Was it the frigid business partner with questionable ethics? The clown-collecting fan-turned-stalker? The auction house owner with a grudge? Or was the appraiser’s real business something much more sinister than his TV personality let on…and much more deadly?
Maddie and her eccentric gang of unlikely sleuths are under the gun to find out before the real killer strikes again…and Mom takes the fall!
Gemma Halliday is the #1 Amazon, New York Times, and USA Today bestselling author of several cozy mystery and suspense thriller novels. Gemma’s books have received numerous awards, including a Golden Heart, two National Reader’s Choice awards, a RONE award for best mystery, and three RITA nominations. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her large, loud, and loving family.
Gemma’s path toward becoming a bestselling author was not a straight line—more like a zigzagging path filled with obstacles! Prior to putting pen to paper, she worked as a film and television actress, a teddy bear importer, a department store administrator, an architect’s assistant, a preschool teacher, a temporary tattoo artist, and a 900 number psychic. Luckily none of these panned out.
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The High Heels Mysteries:
#1 Spying in High Heels
#2 Killer in High Heels
#3 Undercover in High Heels
#3.5 Christmas in High Heels (short story)
#4 Alibi in High Heels
#5 Mayhem in High Heels
#5.5 Honeymoon in High Heels (novella)
#5.75 Sweetheart in High Heels (short story)
#6 Fearless in High Heels
#7 Danger in High Heels
#8 Homicide in High Heels
#9 Deadly in High Heels
#10 Suspect in High Heels
#11 Peril in High Heels – coming soon!
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Have you been talking to my mother, Diane? Linnea Larsen may be logical and down-to-earth, but even she is beginning to wonder about my bodies, as she calls them. Nonsense, of course. The Isle of Glenroth’s murky past had been simmering below the surface for generations. I just happened to be there when it finally erupted. And that’s not likely to happen again, is it?
My next destination is Suffolk, England, a historic and perfectly safe county northeast of Cambridge. Just look at that photo! My flight from Cleveland will arrive the morning of December 5th, so I’ll be in England for all the pre-holiday celebrations (something I’ve always dreamed about). I plan to drive directly from Heathrow to Finchley Hall, the historic country house in the village of Long Barston, where my daughter, Christine, has an internship between terms at Oxford University. DI Mallory, as it happens, lives in the nearby village of Saxby St. Clare, and I’ve promised to spend as much time as possible with him—so no drama this time, please. By the way, please don’t avoid Suffolk! It’s definitely off the tourist track, but I know you would love the quaint villages and fascinating Anglo-Saxon history.
You do ask hard questions, don’t you? I’ve spent the past month trying to answer that question. Tom is certainly a friend, but I have to admit our relationship goes a long way beyond friendship. After Bill’s death, I thought I’d never fall in love again. After all, love is risky. Safer to live in the past. But by the end of my time in Scotland last October, I knew that Tom had captured my heart. That’s the problem—how can a transatlantic relationship ever work? His family, his job, his life are in England. Mine are in Ohio. Hopeless, right? Tom doesn’t think so, and I’ve agreed to take the next step—meeting his mother, the one who doesn’t like Americans. Yikes.
Don’t blame Tom. I was the one distracted by memories of the island and Bill’s horrific death. Was it fate that brought us (literally) together? I’m not ruling it out. Things like that do happen—like the first automobile crash ever recorded in the United States. In 1895 there were only two automobiles in Ohio, and they managed to collide. Explain that.
My dad was the one who called me “an antique whisperer.” He said I was drawn like a magnet to objects of great age and beauty. An exaggeration, obviously, although (just between the two of us) I will admit to having a kind of sixth sense, almost as if I can perceive the emotional atmosphere in which an antique existed. I never talk about it, so please keep it to yourself. As far as training goes, you could certainly be trained to recognize and evaluate fine antiques, but it will take years of experience. I had the blessing of being raised by my parents, both experts in the field.
Well, it’s been lovely chatting, Diane, but I’ve got lots to do at the antique shop. If you’re ever in Jackson Falls, Ohio, stop in to see me at Antiques at the Falls!
A Legacy of Murder: A Kate Hamilton Mystery
Traditional Mystery
2nd in Series
Crooked Lane Books (October 8, 2019)
Hardcover ~336 Pages
ISBN-10: 1643851543
ISBN-13: 978-1643851549
Digital ASIN: B07NKQDYM3
American antique dealer Kate Hamilton’s Christmastime jaunt to a charming English village leads to an investigation of a missing ruby…and a chain of murders.
It’s Christmastime and antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is off to visit her daughter, Christine, in the quaint English village of Long Barston. Christine and her boyfriend, Tristan, work at stately-but-crumbling Finchley Hall. Touring the Elizabethan house and grounds, Kate is intrigued by the docent’s tales of the Finchley Hoard, and the strange deaths surrounding the renowned treasure trove. But next to a small lake, Kate spies the body of a young woman, killed by a garden spade.
Nearly blind Lady Barbara, who lives at Finchley with her loyal butler, Mugg, persuades Kate to take over the murdered woman’s work. Kate finds that a Burmese ruby has vanished from the legendary Blood-Red Ring, replaced by a lesser garnet. Were the theft and the woman’s death connected?
Kate learns that Lady Barbara’s son fled to Venezuela years before, suspected of murdering another young woman. The murder weapon belonged to an old gardener, who becomes the leading suspect. But is Lady Barbara’s son back to kill again? When another body is found, the clues point toward Christine. It’s up to Kate to clear her daughter’s name in Connie Berry’s second Kate Hamilton mystery, a treasure for fans of traditional British mysteries.
Like her protagonist, Connie Berry was raised in the antiques trade. After teaching theology for twenty-five years, she took up writing mysteries featuring high-end antiques and the legacy of the past. Connie loves history, cute animals, travel with a hint of adventure, and all things British. She lives in Ohio with her husband and adorable dog, Millie.
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