DESIGNs on MURDER

Designs On Murder: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery
by Gayle Leeson

 

About the Book

                                     

Designs On Murder: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery 

Cozy Mystery 1st in Series

Grace Abraham Publishing (March 26, 2019)

Print Length: 229 pages 

ASIN: B07MYCQJHB

What if you discovered your lively new friend wasn't really...alive? Amanda Tucker is excited about opening her fashion design studio in Shops On Main, a charming old building in historic Abingdon, Virginia. She didn't realize a ghost came with the property! But soon Maxine "Max" Englebright, a young woman who died in 1930, isn't the only dead person at the retail complex. Mark Tinsley, a web designer with a know-it-all attitude who also rented space at Shops On Main, is shot in his office. Amanda is afraid that one of her new "friends" and fellow small business owners is his killer, and Max is encouraging her to solve Mark's murder a la Nancy Drew. Easy for Max to want to investigate--the ghostly fashionista can't end up the killer's next victim!

 I will start by saying I have been a fan of this author under various pseudonyms for many, many books. I am also a fan of ghost stories, or light paranormal mysteries, and have read other series with vintage style clothing boutiques and spirits attached to something fashionable. That either makes this a perfect series for me or makes me a tough critic.
However you look at it, I was very well satisfied by time spent with entrepreneur, shop keeper, Amanda Tucker and her mysterious new friend, Max. 
Opening a new business is risky enough. Being tasked with discovering the motive behind a murder and unmasking a killer might bring upon the demise of a new business as well. 
Max and Amanda have a nice balance and the addition of Grampa Dave was a twist on the typical adored aunt or Grandmother trope. 
For a first in series this book has everything I could want.

About the Author

Gayle Leeson is a pseudonym for Gayle Trent. Gayle has also written as Amanda Lee and Gayle Trent. 

As Amanda Lee, she wrote the Embroidery Mystery series, and as Gayle Trent, she writes the Daphne Martin Cake Mystery series and the Myrtle Crumb Mystery series. 

Going forward, Gayle intends to keep her writing until the Gayle Leeson name. 

She has a series of women's fiction novellas set in a shopping mall that has been converted to include micro-apartments (the Kinsey Falls series) and has just begun this new cozy series, the Ghostly Fashionista Mystery series. 

Another Down South Cafe novel is slated for release in August with book two in the Ghostly Fashionista series scheduled for October.

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