Title: KERNING TO CRIME
Series: Hand Lettering Mystery #3
Author: Jessa Archer
Publisher: Archer Mysteries
Publish Date: 08.08.19
Category /Genre: Cozy Mystery
Recommended for: 18+ due to vocabulary / adult
concepts
Grammar/editing: received as an
unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from: Jessa Archer
Goodreads link: Kerning to Crime
Date completed: 08.16.2019
Description from the publisher:
Kit Perry is a rich, handsome rogue
with a scandalous past. He's also Cedar
Valley's newest businessman. But is he
their newest murderer? When hand
lettering amateur sleuth Jamie Lang stumbles upon Kit with a beautiful woman
dying in his arms he sure looks like it.
Almost everyone in town is convinced Kit is guilty—of being a devastating charmer and murdering his half sister, Steph. But Steph has almost as many enemies as the entire population of Cedar Valley, and a million little reasons for any of them to want her dead. Kit proclaims his innocence and asks Jamie for help. Despite Kit's killer smile, Jamie isn't convinced he murdered his sister. Now it's up to Jamie to uncover the truth and stop the killer from striking again.
Almost everyone in town is convinced Kit is guilty—of being a devastating charmer and murdering his half sister, Steph. But Steph has almost as many enemies as the entire population of Cedar Valley, and a million little reasons for any of them to want her dead. Kit proclaims his innocence and asks Jamie for help. Despite Kit's killer smile, Jamie isn't convinced he murdered his sister. Now it's up to Jamie to uncover the truth and stop the killer from striking again.
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KERNING TO CRIME is the fourth book
in the Hand Lettering Mystery series. Each will stand on its own, but I wouldn’t
miss one and I’m reading them in the order of release.
Kit came off as a mega-jerk in IN
THE NIB OF TIME, but I was glad he had a chance to redeem himself in this
story. Not everything is, as it first
seems. So often, you need to step back
and notice the timing, the full picture … the spacing (the kerning in the
language of lettering art).
I love these stories with Jamie,
Ridge, and her friends. There are plenty
of well-thought-out twists, turns, and dips to keep me glued to my kindle into
the wee hours. I didn’t go to sleep
until I knew the end. I loved the
giggle-worthy red herrings that were easily believable. I could almost hear the author screeching
“gotcha!”
Finally, we also get more of the
background of what happened to Rut. I
want to thank the author for that. The
story is sad, but it allows us to grieve with Jamie and Ridge, instead of being
frustrated.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted ARC
via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
The Hand Lettering Mystery series:
3.
Kerning to Crime
4.
Process of Illumination
Also from Jessa Archer:
Coastal
Playhouse Mysteries:
0.5
The Phantom of the Opal
1.
Curtains for Romeo
3.
Offed Off-Broadway
Legal Beagle
Mysteries:
1.
Scales of Justice
2.
Hound on the Sound
Thistlewood
Star Cozy Mysteries:
Baskerville for the Bear
1.
A Murder in Helvetica Bold
2.
Palatino for the Painter
3.
A Séance in Franklin Gothic
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