A CONTEST TO KILL FOR by Wendy Soliman

Title:  A CONTEST TO KILL FOR

Series:  Deadline #2

Author:  Wendy Soliman

Publisher:  BookBaby

Publish Date:   07.14.2015

Category /Genre:  Cozy Mystery

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing:  B – a few small errors

Received from:  Wendy Soliman (as a gifted copy)

Goodreads link: A Contest to Kill For

Date completed: 08.13.2018

Description from the publisher:

How far would you go to win a reality TV show?

Investigative journalist, Alexi Ellis, moves from her high-powered job on a London Sunday paper to live in Lambourn—a sleepy village in the heart of British horseracing country.  As an investor in her friends’ ailing boutique hotel, she seizes on the chance to have a fly-on-the-wall televised cookery contest filmed there.

Disaster strikes when the sexy, provocative contestant, guaranteed to keep viewers’ temperatures at boiling point, is murdered on set; stabbed through a silicone implant with a chef’s knife.  Everyone involved with the contest is suspect but the police home in on the hotel’s glamorous chef, Marcel Gasquet.

Tyler Maddox, ex-Metropolitan Police Detective turned private eye, is working on another case in the area.  When he finds ties between his investigation and Alexi’s, he teams up for the second time with the attractive reporter looking for answers.  Delving deeper into the contestants’ backgrounds, they all have compelling reasons to want Juliette dead, but the police seem convinced Marcel is their man.

Can Alexi and Ty clear his name, save the show and secure the future of the hotel…

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A CONTEST TO KILL FOR is the second book in the Deadline series.  Though each will stand on its own, I would recommend reading them all and in the order of release.

So many strong personalities make for a fun read!  The strongest of which is the kitty, Marvin.  Knowing my own four-footed commander, it’s not hard to imagine this one ruling the sound stage and hotel grounds!

The second mystery was even better than the first and I hope there will be more.  Alexi and Tyler work (and love) well together.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Deadline series:

1.      A Date to Die For

2.      A Contest to Kill For

Also from Wendy Soliman:

·         Ava’s Passion

·         A Bittersweet Proposal

·         The Carstairs Conspiracy

·         Christmas at Castleray

·         A Class Apart

·         Downsizing

·         A Duke by Default

·         The Duke’s Legacy

·         Duty’s Destiny

·         For Want of a Reputation

·         Forgotten Heiress

·         Lady Hartley’s Inheritance

·         Lady Mysterious

·         The Name of the Game

·         Of Dukes and Deceptions

·         The Perfect Imposter

·         A Reason to Rebel

·         A Scandalous Proposition

·         Shalimar

·         Silver Lining

·         The Social Outcast

·         To Defy a Duke

·         Topspin

·         Unfinished Business

Ducal Encounters Series:

1.      At the Duke’s Discretion

2.      With the Duke’s Approval   

3.      Portrait of a Duke

4.      For the Duke’s Pleasure

5.      In the Duke’s Estimation

6.      Captivating the Duke

Ducal Encounters 2^nd Series:

1.      Reunited with the Duke

2.      Christmas with the Duke

3.      Representing the Duke

4.      Safeguarding the Duke

5.      Acting for the Duke

6.      Emulating the Duke

Ducal Encounters 3^rd Series:

1.      Conspiring with the Duke

2.      Dedicated to the Duke

3.      Impugning the Duke’s Honour

4.      By Order of the Duke

5.      Supporting the Duke

Forsters Series:

1.      Compromising the Marquess

2.      Beguiling the Barrister

3.      Finessing the Contessa

4.      Romancing the Runaway

Mrs. Darcy Entertains Series:

1.      Miss Bingley’s Revenge

2.      Colonel Fitzwilliam’s Dilemma

3.      Miss Darcy’s Passion

4.      Kitty Bennet’s Despair

5.      Lydia Wickham’s Journal

Pemberley:  The Next Generation Series:

1.      Emma Bingley’s Romantic Nature

2.      Naomi Sanford’s Compassionate Nature

3.      Bella Darcy’s Impetuous Nature

4.      Eleanor Bingley’s Rebellious Nature

5.      Rosie Turner’s Contrary Nature

6.      Susie Darcy’s Tenacious Nature

Perceptions Series:

1.      A Sense of Belonging

Riley Rochester Investigates Series:

1.      Death of a Debutante

2.      Death of a Courtesan

3.      Death of a Prosecutor

4.      Death of a Scoundrel

Victorian Vigilantes Series:

1.      Saving Grace

2.      Heirs and Graces

3.      With Good Grace

4.      Fall from Grace

5.      Social Graces

6.      Elegance and Grace

 

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