Showing posts with label Lorena McCourtney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lorena McCourtney. Show all posts

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Dolled Up to Die by Lorena McCourtney (Review)




  • Paperback: 320 pages

  • Publisher: Revell (July 15, 2013)

  • ISBN-13: 978-0800721596

  • Cate's not sure just what she expected . . . but she knows it certainly wasn't this.
    When Cate Kinkaid receives a frantic call about a triple homicide, she drives to the scene against her better judgment--aren't triple homicides more up the police department's alley?--only to find that the victims are not quite who she expects. Now she has a new rule to add to everything she's learned in her short stint as an assistant private investigator: always find out if the victims have human DNA. Because these three do not.

    But who would shoot this nice lady's dolls? What possible reason could the shooter have? And then there's the startling discovery of another victim, who definitely does have human DNA . . .

    With tension that is matched only by humor, Dolled Up to Die is the exciting second book in Lorena McCourtney's Cate Kinkaid Files. You won't find a place to stop and take a breath in this fast-paced story.


    My Review:

    This was a good Christian cozy mystery. It is the second in the Cate Kincaid files. The first was Dying to Read which I enjoyed also. I was a little scared when I read that the dolls were life like and the victims. It ended up not being freaky. There were also human victims so Cate has her hands full with this case. There are some characters from the first book like Cate's boyfriend who is still not too happy with her job and the risks she takes. Her Aunt and Uncle are also still there. Her Uncle owns the detective business and he is okay with her being an associate now. There was a lot of funny in it too. It is not a super serious book. Recommended.



    Available August 2013 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.

    Review copy provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review.

    Friday, August 24, 2012

    Dying to Read by Lorena McCourtney (Review)



  • Paperback: 320 pages

  • Publisher: Revell (August 1, 2012)

  • ISBN-13: 978-0800721589


  • All she wanted was a paycheck. What she got was a murder.
    Cate Kinkaid's life is . . . well, frankly it's floundering. Her social life, her career, her haircut--they're all a mess. Unemployed, she jumps at the chance to work for her PI uncle, even though she has no experience and no instincts. After all, she is just dabbling in the world of private investigating until she can find a "real" job.

    All she has to do for her first assignment is determine that a particular woman lives at a particular address. Simple, right? But when she reaches the dark Victorian house, she runs into an hungry horde of gray-haired mystery readers and a dead body. This routine PI job is turning out to be anything but simple. Is Cate in over her head?

    My Review:
    I enjoyed reading this Christian cozy mystery. It is the first in the Cate Kincaid series. It was well written with lively characters. There is some humor in the story too which really adds to it. I figured out some of the mystery but not all and it did not detract from the book for me. A cute male sidekick makes an appearance too. :) Recommended.





    Lorena McCourtney is the award-winning author of dozens of novels, including Invisible (which won the Daphne du Maurier Award from Romance Writers of America), In Plain Sight, On the Run, and Stranded. She resides in Oregon.

    Available now wherever Baker/Revell books are sold.

    Thank you Donna at Revell for my review copy.

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