Book Review: Bridal Shower Murder (Lucy Stone, #31) by Leslie Meier

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Bridal Shower Murder (Lucy Stone, #31)  by Leslie Meier  opens with Lucy Stone rushing home to clean house for Zoe who is bringing home her boyfriend Chad. While there, Zoe and Chad announce their engagement but want to keep it a secret for a bit.  When a nosy busybody named Janice gets the best of Lucy, the mother of the bride blurts out Zoe's secret. Chaos ensues with a murder and an overdose. NetGalley, thank you for approving me to receive an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of Bridal Shower Murder .  I've come to love Leslie Meier's Lucy Stone cozy mystery series and know that I will automatically read any book in this series without reading the synopsis. I have to say that this was one of the best stories in the series for multiple reasons. The first reason is that Lucy's husband isn't quite so sexist, which is refreshing for a change. I dislike it when he acts like a caveman who expects Lucy to be a housewife and wait on him hand and foot. What really surprised me...

Book Review: Trail of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #5) by Lisa Lutz

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Trail of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #5) by Lisa Lutz is the fifth installment in the book series about Isabel "Izzy" Spellman and her family of private investigators. For the first time that she remembers, Izzy isn't the "odd man" in the family. Older brother David and younger sister Rae are in an impasse and not speaking to one another. Albert, the dad, is hiding something and has gone to great measures to hide it. And, Izzy's mom, Olivia, has herself booked solid with several new hobbies. Then, Demetrius Merriweather keeps going on first dates without any second dates. On top of this, several of the family cases have become intertwined with each other.

Grab yourself a ginger ale and settle yourself down for the ride of a lifetime. I don't know how Lisa Lutz keeps doing it, but each book in this series is better than the last. I love the fact that there are several mysteries going on throughout the book . . . my favorites being the one with the banana (don't worry, it's not lewd in any way) and Olivia's obsession with getting a multitude of new hobbies. With all the dysfunction in the Spellman family and how well it's written, it does make me wonder how much of it is autobiographical. And, I have a strong hunch that the character of Izzy is hugely drawn from Lutz's own life . . . whether or not it is, that's how it feels to me.

I also enjoy the author's sense of humor in the book. It's a bit warped, but that's what I love about it. I'll admit, it's not for everyone. And, the footnotes are awesome! They add additional quirkiness and originality to this novel. There isn't anything negative I can really say about Trail of the Spellmans as I was immediately drawn into the story, and it played like a movie in my mind. I would love to see this installment of the series, and all of the others, as a mini-series on television or a movie.

Five out five stars is how I ranked Trail of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #5) by Lisa Lutz, and it was a blast rereading it for the second time. However, it felt like the first time since it had be almost nine years to the date of when I read it the first time.


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