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CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Fashion Victim by GT Herren
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CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Fashion Victim by GT Herren

GT Herren is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Fashion Victim. First, I just get a kick out of the cover! So fun and cute. I’m also a big fan of chick lit mysteries, so I was in for a treat this one! The main character is Paige Tourneur, a reporter living in New Orleans who gets assigned a personality profile on fashion designer Marigny Mercereau – who winds up dead. Paige takes it upon herself to figure out Marigny’s death while keeping her job and love interest interested in her.
Fashion Victim is a fast-paced and quick read into the life and mind of the quick-thinking and smart-mouthed Paige. She cracked me up with some of her antics, and it was fun to follow along with her journey into finding the murderer. This book really zipped past for me, I finished reading it in one day, and I almost wish it could have stretched on a bit longer because I was having so much fun with it. I definitely want to check into other books from Herren, as it sounds like this isn’t the first appearance Paige makes in his stories. One to check out!
4 stars

March 8, 2013
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Future Tour: Fashion Victim by GT Herren
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Future Tour: Fashion Victim by GT Herren

GT Herren will be on tour March 4-11 with Fashion Victim, a chick lit mystery novel To hear her buddy Chanse McLeod tell it, Paige…

January 29, 2013
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CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Death Turns a Trick by Julie Smith
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CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Death Turns a Trick by …

Julie Smith is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Death Turns a Trick. Chick lit mysteries are right up there in my fave genres choices, and I’m not surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. Rebecca Schwartz is our Jewish lawyer MC, who finds herself in the middle of a city scandal. This happens because A) she is playing piano at a whorehouse, B) The whorehouse is suddenly raided and she finds herself driving away the senator (half-naked) and C) because she finds a dead hooker in her living room. If that doesn’t sound like a juicy novel, I don’t know what does!
Death Turns a Trick was a seriously funny book, all while being mysterious and having romance thrown in between the pages. Smith does a fab job at building Rebecca’s character and also with her comedic timing, and I don’t normally classify something as a “hoot,” but I feel that is the only word suitable for this book – in a good way, of course! If you like chick lit and mysteries, this book needs to be on your list – or just get it on there anyway! A favorite of mine!
5 stars

January 21, 2013
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On Tour: Death Turns a Trick by Julie Smith
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On Tour: Death Turns a Trick by Julie Smith

Julie will be on tour January 7-21 with her novel Death Turns a Trick Rebecca Schwartz, nice Jewish lawyer with a few too many fantasies,…

January 1, 2013
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Book Review: Cliffhanger by Amy Saunders
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Book Review: Cliffhanger by Amy Saunders

I received a copy of Cliffhanger by Amy Saunders in exchange for an honest review. Let me just start by saying I love the cover; it’s so cute! The setting is Portside, Rhode Island and our MC is Belinda Kittridge. Belinda doesn’t expect to be thrown into a murder mystery, but that is exactly what happens when a classmate ends up dead and someone seems out to get Belinda herself. Is the murder connected with a death of a friend years prior? Belinda meets security expert Bennett Tate to help solve the mystery, and a few sparks fly between the two. But is Belinda safe in Portside, or is a murderer out to get her?
I really enjoyed this story, and had troubles putting it down. Belinda is a fun heroine, someone who comes from money and a well-known name but not a snob by any means. The relationship she has with her twin brother was fun to read about, as well as her friendships in town. The murder-mystery aspect had me on my toes, but sometimes I didn’t feel like the characters sensed that urgency, which was only the head scratcher I found. I enjoyed the romance between Belinda and Bennett, and I was excited to learn this is the first in a series. I will look forward to the second book!
[Rating: 4.5]

December 27, 2012
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Blog Tour Sign Up: Fashion Victim by GT Herren
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Blog Tour Sign Up: Fashion Victim by GT Herren

To hear her buddy Chanse McLeod tell it, Paige Tourneur is rotund, cute as a button, a truly bad driver, and the best friend a gay P.I. could possibly have.

Now Paige gets a chance to tell it herself in her own witty and worldly-wise way. Please! Is that really her name? Seems like she has quite a past and in FASHION VICTIM, it’s starting to haunt her.

Since his first novel, Greg Herren’s fans have been begging him to spin off their favorite character, the hard-drinking, hard-bitten, smart-mouthed red-headed reporter with the heart of gold and the unlikely name.

In her first solo outing, she’s long since left the Times-Picayune, played out a stint on television, and has now landed a job at Crescent City Magazine, which sends her out to do a personality piece on bitchy fashion designer Marigny Mercereau. Only Marigny ends up dead fifteen minutes before her fifteen minutes of fame.

Twisting through Marigny’s creepy past, Paige is accompanied, as always, by best friend Chanse, her cop buddies Venus Casanova and Blaine Tujague, and ( finally!) by the perfect man: her new boy friend, Blaine’s brother Ryan. So what happens when a woman meets the perfect man and her past comes calling?

FASHION VICTIM is the first in a series of interconnected novellas in Paige’s MISSING HUSBAND SERIES. This spring: watch for THE DEAD HOUSEWIVES OF NEW ORLEANS.

December 17, 2012
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Death on Heels by Ellen Byerrum
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Death on Heels by Ellen Byerrum

I received my copy of Death on Heels by Ellen Byerrum via CLP Blog Tours. I was really excited for this tour because I had heard of the Lacey Smithsonian mystery series but had never had the chance to read one of the books. Byerrum and her books are super popular and have such a loyal fan base. Some of her novels were even adapted to film by the Lifetime Movie Network! So, needless to say, I was thrilled to have the chance to work with such an accomplished author.
Diving in the book, I was immediately wanting to be friends with Lacey, fashion reporter living in Washington DC. She moved there from the rugged little town of Sagebrush, Colorado, where she never wanted to return. But with her former boyfriend accused of murdering three women, Lacey is hot on the case. She knows Cole Tucker would never harm another woman, much less murder them. Until he abducts her right from the courthouse. Is Lacey in danger with Cole? Or is there a bigger ploy going on in the small town of Sagebrush?
This was such a fun story! I love a good mystery, and this book featured so many possible suspects. I loved the touch that Lacey was a reporter trying to track down a murderer, but could always be counted on for her fashion forward thinking as well. This was the definition of a chick lit murder mystery. If you haven’t yet picked up a Lacey Smithsonian novel, I suggest you do!
[Rating: 4]

March 21, 2012
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So Damn Lucky by Deborah Coonts
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So Damn Lucky by Deborah Coonts

So Damn Lucky by Deborah Coonts is the third installment in the Lucky O’Toole series. I have read and reviewed both Wanna Get Lucky? and…

February 29, 2012
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Blog Tour Sign Up: Death on Heels by Ellen Byerrum
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Blog Tour Sign Up: Death on Heels by Ellen Byerrum

Ellen will be on tour in March with her chick lit mystery novel Death on Heels. This will be a print book tour, available for US/Canada residents only. Please use the form below if you would like to be included. Ellen will also be available for a guest post or interview. I will contact everyone chosen to participate. Thank you!

D.C. style scribe Lacey Smithsonian swore she’d never return to Sagebrush, Colorado, the scruffy hard-luck boom town where she earned her reporter’s spurs. Yet when rancher Cole Tucker is accused of murdering three women—all left barefoot on lonely country roads—Lacey grabs her cowboy boots and heads West to prove her former boyfriend’s innocence. And possibly to resolve old feelings. However, this doesn’t sit well with her current beau, private investigator Vic Donovan, who has his own agenda in Sagebrush.

It takes only one look for Tucker to change Lacey’s game plan by abducting her in a daring courtroom escape. Tucker turns her world upside down, in stolen vehicles, on horseback, and into the wilderness, leaving Lacey not knowing who to trust. With a vicious killer on her trail, it’s a whole new—and potentially fatal—frontier for this fashion reporter.

Lacey’s Fashion Tip of the Day

Beware of Killer Heels: The ones you wear and the ones you date. Choose high heels that fit and lift your spirits, and kick those other heels to the curb!

December 23, 2011
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