Publisher: Berkley
Published: December 3, 2017
ISBN: 978-0425283554
Genre: Cozy
Mystery
Format: Print
Obtained via: Publisher
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina myreviewbooks@aol.com
FIVE HEARTS
Emmy Adler, the owner of Strings Attached kite shop has been
working on what she hopes will be one of the most spectacular kites ever for an
upcoming festival in Rock Point, Oregon.
She’s pinned her future on the kite.
She needs to win the “best” kite in the contest in order to keep her
shop open. Thing is, her competitor, Sullivan’s
Kites, is also entering. And to make
things a little more interesting, she’s been seeing Jack, the owner of Sullivan’s. They stock different classes of kites so the
competition is relatively friendly, but there can only be one winner of best
kite. With her kite shaping up nicely
Emmy feels pretty good about her potential win.
That is, until, her sister, Sunny arrives in town. Not only does Sunny announce she’s there to
stay, she ruins Emmy’s kite not once, but twice. But that’s not the worst of it. Oh no…that would be when the contest’s judge
turns up dead.
Jasmine Normand is known as the star of Bag that Babe, a reality
TV show featuring various hunks and babes in bikinis. She was an easy pick for the contest because
her sister, Rose, lives in Rock Point. It
appears that Emmy may have seen the killer and while she’s more than happy to
leave finding the killer to the Sheriff, when one friend becomes suspect number
1 and another is almost killed, and her sister goes missing, she has no other
choice but to track down the killer herself.
But can she find the killer before the killer finds her?
I really enjoyed book one of Clover Tate’s Kite Shop Mysteries,
Blown Away because it reminded me not only of going kite flying growing up, but
of all the fun kites people fly on San Francisco’s Marina Green. In book 2, LIVE AND LET FLY, she out does
herself. What a great story.
Tate gives readers some great characters, a wonderful setting
and a super mystery to solve along with Emmy.
Her characters are multi-dimensional and they develop nicely and
credibly within and between the two books.
There’s no rushing into relationships and Emmy’s relationship with Jack
doesn’t bog down into a hurry up romance.
The revelations about why she wants to take thing slowly are unveiled
bit by bit but it doesn’t interfere with the story. And Jack is such a good guy – you really do
want them to end up together without a lot of extra drama in the story because the
series is, after all, a mystery. Many of
the other characters are people you’d like to know in real life.
The town of Rock Point has a certain charm to it and the reader
can get totally behind Marcus’s agenda about it. I love the idea of the kite festival and the
story of how Jasmine came to be there.
Most of all, Tate weaves a great mystery. I didn’t see the killer coming for a long time
and even when it became known, there were a few white knuckle minutes while
Emmy took that character down. I can’t
wait for the next one in this series.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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