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Today is:
Reading Challenge dates feature a review of a book that must meet/fit one of our “challenge” themes (we each will pick three challenges from the categories below and also complete our Must Do list):
Book Cover features
One you don’t like
Mis-match (cover doesn’t fit the book)
Trifecta (cover, title, blurb fit perfectly)
Animals
Nature
Single Person
Objects
Body Parts
Clearing Off the Book Shelves
Read
An author whose books you are 2+ behind on
Any new to you author
Start a new series
A book you’ve had for six months or less
A book you’ve had for over a year
A book you’ve had for over five years
A book you keep meaning to read
Must Do
Read any Someday…Sunday you featured
Read any Friday or Sunday book featured by the other blogger
Reader’s Choice
Anything Goes
Just Because
Double Dip
Recommended by
Re read
Second Chance
Try Again
I really tried, but…
*completed
my challenge pick
read any someday...sunday book you featured
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.
Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover.
In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they'll be drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.
Neither Adelaide or Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...
Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover.
In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they'll be drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection.
Neither Adelaide or Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...
Oh...I love Ms Quick!
I knew I finally needed to read this book since the next book in the series, Tightrope, comes in May.
Although the type of "historical" romance Ms Quick once wrote has changed, the writing hasn't.
Let me explain briefly as is prevalent in The Other Lady Vanishes:
Ms Quick still writes a romantic yarn, filled with super smart/strong heroines that don't simper or depend on the hero to save them or make them whole. In fact many times it is the heroine that (helps to)save(s) the day, in addition to the hero usually falling in love first! Plus her characters are flawed and realistic.
This was a fast paced novel with a great and interesting mystery. And I LOVE the setting and time line, for Burning Cove, which is very effective.
now in trade paperback with a gorgeous new cover!
to see her challenge pick
march 7th
trivia thursday
I guess we are using the same mind again. I use to love Amanda Quick books but don't care for her newer ones. I miss her old writing so much.
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