Sunday, June 26, 2022

ONE OF US IS DEAD by Jeneva Rose

 

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Date Published: April 26, 2022
ISBN#
  ‎ 979-8200706846
Suspense
Reviewed by Gina (myreviewbooks@aol.com)
Obtained via Library

5 Hearts

Jenny is the owner of the premier salon in Buckhead—Glow. Building it from the ground up she started as your basic stylist and now has an essentially members only full service—tanning, waxing, mani/pedi, style salon. It’s the go to place for anyone who is anyone in Buckhead. Among her top clients are Olivia, Shannon and Karen. Along with her friend and employee, Keisha, Jenny takes the best care of her clients. But things are changing in Buckhead.

Karen and her husband Mark haven’t been intimate for months and frankly, she could care less. Shannon has been traded in by her husband for a younger model named Crystal. Crystal has her own set of secrets. Olivia is the queen bee—and don’t you forget it. She thinks she is the keeper of all the secrets. And then there are the husbands who have their own hidden lives. But most of all there is someone who knows more than the wives, Olivia and the husbands put together.

Things start falling apart when Olivia decides that Crystal needs to join the manis and maitai’s weekly do at Glow and that Shannon is going to be on the outs. And then there is the night of the party…a party no one wants to attend, but really, have no choice. Who will make it out alive and who will die?

It’s been awhile since I’ve picked up a book that I made excuses not to see friends, stayed up way too late at night….or was it early morning and basically just couldn’t put down till I got to the oh so delicious end. I have had some good reads, some really good reads, but Jeneva Rose’s ONE OF US IS DEAD is one of the best books I’ve read in awhile. Like the best chocolate you want to savor it, but just can’t stop eating it. (Those of us who are chocoholics know what I mean).

I “discovered” Ms. Rose in my library (the fabulous Novato library) sent out its weekly new book newsletter and it sounded good. I immediately went to check it out and then couldn’t put it down. Told from Shannon, Olivia, Jenny, Crystal and Karen’s points of view you become part of the drama. By half way through the book you feel like you’re part of their group and wonder just what you’re doing with them. I couldn’t wait to see if Shannon and Jenny got back at Olivia for her snotty, bitchy, attitude toward them. But at the same time, I didn’t want it to happen because then the book would be over.

Somehow I missed her two earlier books but have already ordered them. She is one addictive writer!  Her next one can’t come soon enough for me!

 

This is an objective review and not an endorsement of this book.

 

                                                                           

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