"Cocaine Blues" (#61)

"Cocaine Blues"

(First 'Phryne Fisher Mystery')

by

Kerry Greenwood

"This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine ......... and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back."

"The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher--she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions--is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia."

Looks like a fun series!!!

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"If Books Could Kill"

"If Books Could Kill"

by

Kate Carlisle

-sigh-  Seduced by this particular cover art.  -sigh-  And it did sound promising.  But....  T'was way too much romantic chick-lit for me.  ("Dare" I say, kinda' too-good-to-be-true, and silly, chick-lit...)  

So I didn't really enjoy it, as a "cozy," for me, that is.  But!  To read other reader's takes on this book, please click here.

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"Truly, Madly"

"Truly, Madly"  by Heather Webber

Yes, it's "chick-lit"!  Of course it is.  You can tell by the cover art.  :-)  But it's not irritatingly so.

From a Review:

"Lucy Valentine is ....   a little bit quirky protagonist who never got on my nerves. It's nice to have a main character who isn't totally self-absorbed, ditzy, neurotic, clumsy and just plain irritating, basically just about every female you run across in lighter fiction books these days. All the other characters added to the story seamlessly..."

It's the First in the "Lucy Valentine Series," and since I like this one, I have a hold on the next one.  I think that says as much about a book, as can be said.  :-)

Get it.  I'm sure you will have fun, with a light read.

Btw, I had the entire book cover pic up, when I noticed that...  There is a blurb, at the bottom of the pic of the book cover, by the author of the "Sookie Stackhouse" books.  I quickly cut off THAT line, at the bottom of the book cover.  I would NOT  READ or  RECOMMEND something, which I thought was like "Sookie Stackhouse" books.  Blahhhhhhhhhh...  You know I'm no prude, but I couldn't get interested in those books!  Blahhhhhhhh....

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