Book Review:
Murder Unmentionable
This is my second cozy
murder mystery series, and I’m happy to report that I chose right.
Meg London’s first book
of her Sweet Nothings Lingerie mystery series is (was?) a delight!
I loved the lingerie
theme. It’s what draws me to the stories. Amidst the cooking-themed cozies Murder Unmentionable is a breath of
fresh air!
Book 1 follows heroine
Emma Taylor, a 29-year-old niece of the Sweet nothing shop owner. A transplant from the world of New York
fashion, Emma arrives with the small-term goal of assisting her beloved aunt
with her down-and-under lingerie store. Returning to her small Tennessee town,
Emma is carrying a lot of personal baggage (she just caught her boyfriend
cheating) and while she figures small town is synonymous with boring but stable
life, a murder throws a wrench into her plans for obscurity.
And when the murder
happens right in her aunt’s shop well she needs to pull out her amateur
sleuthing cap and sleuth away to prove her own and her aunt’s innocence.
Murder
Unmentionable is an enjoyable read with a colourful secondary cast,
steady pacing and snappy dialogue breaking apart any introspection (and
annoyingly long food preparation descriptions—seriously I get that it’s the
south and people love to cook fine southern food!).
That being said, there
were some other reasons why it didn’t get a 5/5 for me.
I didn’t like that I
knew the killer by page 50ish. It’s a whodunit, so it shouldn’t have been that
easy. I also didn’t enjoy the romance as
much as I wanted to. I loved the whole
best friend’s older brother thing, but there wasn’t that spark between Emma,
her love interest, Brian (who I keep spelling as “Brain”) and me. Nada.
My
verdict:
✮✮✮✮
(4
stars)
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