This is the first installment in Wedding Cake Mystery, so we get the introduction for Piper Donovan, a struggling actress forced to move back with her parents after a broken engagement. She then starts helping out at her mother bakery, creating wonderfully described cakes (that makes me crave for it!), getting in touch with her long hidden talents in cake making and cake decorating.
As life goes by, along came a murder that got Piper involved.
I consider this a light suspense novel. It's cozy, enjoyable, nothing that put you at the edge of your seat but engaging enough to get you to keep turning the page.
The second installment of Wedding Cake Mystery. Piper is hired to make a wedding cake for the director of a luxurious spa, where it seems there are many things happening to prevent her going down the aisle. Piper is again in the midst of murder scenes.
Piper is no investigator, so don't expect a thorough investigation described here.
I come to think that we (readers) are placed as Piper in this book, we are in the murder scenes, watching people around it, gossiping or sharing stories from other patrons of the spa.
And how I wish we also have a hunk FBI agent that always worries about us too!
A classic chicklit from Jane Green!
Alice, a plain Jane, married her teenage crush, a dashing, handsome, man-of-every-girl Joe Chambers. From the outside, it looks perfect and enviable to every girls, but in the inside, it's miserable.
Alice loved the idea of marrying her teenage crush, and she did. What she didn't know that the marriage stripped her off her true identity, a country lover girl who loves gardening and cooking in-spite of the facade she always shows, a chic and trendy city girl.
In other hand, Joe is nothing but a cheating bastard.
It's a nice story of how a girl finding her true identity.
*it's the cover of NYPD Red first novel on the right :D
Zach Jordan and his partner, Kylie MacDonald are again faced with a high profile murder believed done by Hazmat Killer - catchy, huh?
It's the usual investigation novel that moves fast and keeps readers engaged, with of course a little romance on the side.
I safe to say that Zach and Kylie are on my list of favorite James Patterson characters, together with Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club (I don't really like Michael Bennett...).
I gotta say I like the combination of James Patterson and David Ellis.
I've read the two previous books - Mistress and Guilty Wives, and I liked them a lot. I gladly say that I liked this book too.
Although it started slow, it became more engaging as pages turned.
Emmy's sister died in a fire 8 months ago which Emmy believed was an arson. The problem was nobody believed that. As an FBI analyst, she managed to connect her sister murder to other fire happened for the past years.
With her very small team, she must done her best to catch the arsonist before he killed another.
The fast pace, clues gathered one by one, relate-able characters, it has the formula of a good murder mystery book!
I find that all Gillian Flynn novels are dark. And Dark Places lives up to its name.
It sometimes amazes me how Gillian Flynn is able to describe and understand such dark characters in her novels. They are damaged, flawed, pitiable, and totally not the kind of people you want to be in your circle of friends. Which then why I find them so fascinating.
Libby Day is no different. She is the lone survivor of the murders known as The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. And 25 years later, she still has not recovered from it. Her life is as messed up as it can be. No friend, no love, no money. She tried to milk her sad story once again, and unknowingly, she was drawn to the killers and put herself in danger.
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