Title: BLOWNUP IN PARADISE
Series: Paradise # 14
Author: Deborah Brown
Publish Date: 03.05.2018
Publisher: Deborah Brown
Category /Genre: Mystery
Recommended for: 14+ due to content
Grammar/editing: book received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Deborah Brown (as an ARC gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Blownup
in Paradise
Date completed: 03.18.2018
Description from the publisher:
I’ve come a long way since
inheriting my Aunt Elizabeth’s Tarpon Cove house and her beach cottages full of
quirky residents. I strap a Glock to my thigh as easily as I slip into
flip-flops.
Even Fab is going legit… mostly. When she’s hired to investigate some high-end boat thefts in Biscayne Bay, I go along to do what I do best. Chat up the help to get the real story.
Neither of us expected the case to explode—literally—and take out one of Miami’s richest men. And possibly a mistress, though no one’s found her body floating among the bits and pieces.
Somewhere in the Miami upper-crust’s phony smiles and even phonier alibis there’s someone who wanted to see Marshall Sacks dead. Someone willing to ruin Fab’s and my lives to keep their secret.
Even Fab is going legit… mostly. When she’s hired to investigate some high-end boat thefts in Biscayne Bay, I go along to do what I do best. Chat up the help to get the real story.
Neither of us expected the case to explode—literally—and take out one of Miami’s richest men. And possibly a mistress, though no one’s found her body floating among the bits and pieces.
Somewhere in the Miami upper-crust’s phony smiles and even phonier alibis there’s someone who wanted to see Marshall Sacks dead. Someone willing to ruin Fab’s and my lives to keep their secret.
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BLOWNUP IN PARADISE is the
fourteenth book in the Paradise series. This
is the first book I have read in the series.
I was able to follow this case, but felt I was missing something in the
relationships of the characters. While it mostly stands on its own, there is
enough reference to past events that I know I’m missing something…. I suggest
reading the previous books in the order of release.
One thing I liked about this book
was that there was no swearing and the bedroom scenes were fade to black. That means this would be a book I would feel
comfortable sharing with family or book club.
I’m a sucker for animals and children,
so my favorite part of the book isn’t even mentioned in the blurb. It is the side story about the little
lost/stolen Maltese and how Fab and Madison took care of a gang of dog fighters
and rescued a teenager caught in the middle of it all.
As for the blown up boat (apart from
the fact that blow up should be two words and the title has it as a single –
ugh!), that bit of mystery kept me guessing and I love that in a mystery!
The two couples in the series –
Madison and Creole and Fabiana and Didier –are wonderful. They are funny and loyal to each other as
couples and as friends. I love that the
ideas of trust and truthfulness are constantly being reinforced. That is what makes any relationship stronger.
This was the first book I have read
from Deborah Brown. I look forward to
reading more, especially since I also live in Florida and enjoy the warmth of
the sun in real life and on the pages of a well written mystery set in my
state.
Note: while I was given this book as a gifted ARC,
my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Paradise series:
1.
Crazy in Paradise
2.
Deception in Paradise
3.
Trouble in Paradise
4.
Murder in Paradise
5.
Greed in Paradise
6.
Revenge in Paradise
7.
Kidnapped in Paradise
8.
Swindled in Paradise
9.
Executed in Paradise
10.
Hurricane in Paradise
11.
Lottery in Paradise
12.
Ambushed in Paradise
13.
Christmas in Paradise
14.
Blownup in Paradise
Also from Author:
·
Starfish Island
Zuma
Seals Series:
1.
Malibu Hills Murder
2.
Mission Paradise
3.
One for the Team
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