Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today. I am bringing you my review for Flirting with Murder by Amanda Sellett. let me know if you have read it and what you thought of it.
Blurb:
The Agathas meets Thursday Murder Club in Amanda Sellet’s next YA novel, a cozy mystery with a splash of romance.
Some people visit Florida for theme parks and beaches. High school junior Virginia Tillis is there for murder. Accidents, electrocution, tainted hand lotion: every victim meets a different end at her grandmother Lainey’s rococo pink condo. Such is life (and death) when you roll with a crew of theater retirees who roleplay murder mysteries from the comfort of their own home in a game they fondly call Killing Me Softly.
But this summer, fictional murder has given way to the very real death of the building’s beloved owner and his dramatic last testament has the vultures circling, from estranged relatives to sleazy property developers, dead set on getting the most from his will.
Adding to the tension for Virginia is the appearance of Felix, the cute guy she met at the airport who turns out to be the grandson of one of the condo’s residents. With his charm and musical theater chops, he’s the person Virginia most wants to beat at Killing Me Softly. That is, until the day they discover an actual dead body while playing the game, forcing them to work together to figure out whodunit.
In this comedic mystery about finding the Watson to your Holmes, Virginia and Felix must banter their way from rivals to co-detectives in time to save their eccentric grandparents from a shocking disruption to the community they’ve always loved.
My review:
I picked up this book because I have read a romance by this author before and really enjoyed that so when I saw they were writing a cosy crime novel I had to get it. Once I had it, I found I was hesitant to actually read it because I thought the mystery side might be lacking to get the romance good. This was not the case. Both the romance and the mystery shone in this book in my opinion, I was very invested in both sides of it. The end of the mystery was also a big surprise, not something that I imagined and I am looking forward to seeing more of this kind of novel from this author.
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