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Peg and Rose Solve a Murder
Peg and Rose Solve a Murder by Laurien Berenson is $2.99! I mentioned this on a previous edition of Get Rec’d. If you’re on the “senior sleuths” train, maybe pick this one up!
Murder, She Wrote meets The Golden Girls in the award-winning author’s brand-new series! Two cantankerous septuagenarians, opposites in every way, put aside their differences to stop a killer… if they don’t throttle each other first!
Rose Donovan looks for the good in everyone. With her sister-in-law, Peg, that sometimes requires a lot of searching. Even a sixty-something former nun like Rose has her limits, and gruff Peg Turnbull sure knows how to push them. But after forty years of bickering, they’re attempting to start over, partnering up to join the local bridge club.
Peg and Rose barely have a chance to celebrate their first win before one of the club’s most accomplished players is killed in his home. As the newest members, the sisters-in-law come under scrutiny and decide to start some digging of their own. Bridge is typically seen as a wholesome pastime, yet this group of senior citizens harbors a wealth of vices, including gambling, cheating, and adultery . . .
By comparison, Peg and Rose’s fractious relationship is starting to feel almost functional. But as their suspect list narrows, they’re unaware that their logic has a dangerous flaw. And they’ll have to hope that their teamwork holds steady when they’re confronted by a killer who’s through with playing games . . .
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Murder in Westminster
Murder in Westminster by Vanessa Riley is $2.99! This was another Get Rec’d book, if you’re in the mood for historical mysteries with a hint of romance. However, some comments mentioned there’s a lot of exposition and plot packed into this one.
Perfect for readers looking for a darker twist on Bridgerton, this first story in a vibrant, inclusive new historical mystery series from an acclaimed author portrays the true diversity of the Regency-era, as a widow whose skin color and notorious family history have left her with few friends she can rely on – just as the local vicar names her the prime suspect in a murder case…
A BiblioLifestyle Most Anticipated Mystery of Summer 2022
Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail’s skin color and her mother’s notorious past have earned her a certain reputation among the ton, and no amount of wealth or status will eclipse it.
Abigail can’t divulge that she was attending a secret pro-abolition meeting at the time of the murder. To her surprise, Henderson offers her an alibi. Though he and Juliet were long estranged, and she had a string of lovers, he feels a certain loyalty to his late wife. Perhaps together, he and Abigail can learn the truth.
Abigail, whose marriage to Lord Worthing was not a love match, knows well how appearances can deceive. For all its surface elegance, London’s high society can be treacherous. Yet who in their circle would have killed Juliet, and why? Taking the reins of her life in a way she never has before, Abby intends to find out—but in the process she will uncover more danger than she ever imagined…
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The Lady from the Black Lagoon
The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara is $2.99 at Amazon! It’s not being price-matched elsewhere, so this could be an expiring deal. This is a biography about the woman who created the famous creature from the Black Lagoon, and her lost legacy.
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters.
As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But for someone who should have been hailed as a pioneer in the genre there was little information available. For, as O’Meara soon discovered, Patrick’s contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, her career had been cut short and she soon after had disappeared from film history. No one even knew if she was still alive.
As a young woman working in the horror film industry, O’Meara set out to right the wrong, and in the process discovered the full, fascinating story of an ambitious, artistic woman ahead of her time. Patrick’s contribution to special effects proved to be just the latest chapter in a remarkable, unconventional life, from her youth growing up in the shadow of Hearst Castle, to her career as one of Disney’s first female animators. And at last, O’Meara discovered what really had happened to Patrick after The Creature’s success, and where she went.
A true-life detective story and a celebration of a forgotten feminist trailblazer, Mallory O’Meara’s The Lady from the Black Lagoon establishes Patrick in her rightful place in film history while calling out a Hollywood culture where little has changed since.
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Fluffy
Fluffy by Julia Kent is FREE! It’s also book one in a series and the other titles are also on sale. I’m on the fence about trying this one because it sounds hilarious with the “fluffer” misunderstanding, but humor is so subjective and I’ve been burned by romantic comedies before.
An all-new STANDALONE from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent
It all started with the wrong Help Wanted ad. Of course it did.
I’m a professional fluffer. It’s NOT what you think. I stage homes for a living. Real estate agents love me, and my work stands on its own merits.
Sigh. Get your mind out of the gutter. Go ahead. Laugh. I’ll wait.
See? That’s the problem. My career has used the term “fluffer” for decades. I didn’t even know there was a more… lascivious definition of the term.
Until it was too late.
The ad for a “professional fluffer” on Craigslist seemed like divine intervention. My last unemployment check was in the bank. I was desperate. Rent was due. The ad said cash paid at the end of the day. The perfect job!
Staging homes means showing your best angle. The same principle applies in making a certain kind of movie. Turns out a “fluffer” doesn’t arrange decorative pillows on a couch.
They arrange other soft, round-ish objects.
The job isn’t hard. Er, I mean, it is — it’s about being hard. Or, well… helping other people to be hard.
Oh, man…
And that’s the other problem. A man. No, not one of the stars on the movie set. Will Lotham – my high school crush. The owner of the house where we’re filming. Illegally. In a vacation rental.
By the time the cops show up, what I thought was just a great house staging gig turned into a nightmare involving pictures of me with an undressed star, Will rescuing me from an arrest, and a humiliating lesson in my own naivete.
My job turned out to be so much harder than I expected. But you know what’s easier than I ever imagined?
Having all my dreams come true.
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It looks like Lady from the Black Lagoon is no longer on sale 🙁
On the one hand, the concept for Fluffy is hilarious. And on the other hand, I am incredibly turned off by the idea of a heroine so utterly naive that no one in her circles has ever, ever, ever made a joke about the two kinds of fluffers. That’s a level of obliviousness I don’t find even vaguely believable, especially if you consider things like the way rug makers lean into the Hookers and Strippers language. Most people find that kind of naughty double entendre irresistibly funny and while I could understand a character who doesn’t like the implication, one who has never heard it? Not plausible.
Just reading the description of Lady from the Black Lagoon makes me think it could be such a great movie. Idealistic young woman dealing with jerky dudes in horror-film production goes in search of her mysterious predecessor/idol?
Like Julie & Julia, but with more fake blood!
(Of course, sounds like things didn’t end as well, career-wise, for Milicent Patrick as they did for Julia Child.)
Fluffy was pretty, well, fluffy. Not one I’d recommend but I generally don’t like (written) rom coms.
I don’t usually enjoy cozy mysteries, but I loved The Thursday Murder Club and Killers of a Certain Age, so Peg and Rose Solve a Murder sounded perfect. Apparently elderly characters are not enough to make me love a cozy mystery. This book irritated me so much that I didn’t make it past the first 3-4 chapters. This one had its “quirky characters” level set to Defcon 1 (okay, yes, I’m a million years old so this ref works for me–and the book *should* work for me), and it didn’t seem like there was much space left in the narrative for anything else. To be fair, the line between super-grumpy-cutesy and nauseating probably depends on the reader.
In re language – one evening, working late, a co-worker and I got pretty giggly over the instructions for cleaning mouse balls (NB: this was long enough ago that a computer mouse would have a ball inside).
Jacquilynne I can honestly say that until this books first came along I had no idea of either meaning of “fluffer” so not everyone does. I find the idea that one kind of fluffer would simply try the other kind’s job rather less believable.
I myself loved Fluffy and have reread it multpile times. Maybe I’m just as naive though since I didn’t know what a fluffer was before reading this book.
Thirding the I have no idea what a fluffer is. Off to google.
To be clear, I can buy that people, in general, might not know what either kind of fluffer is or that they might only be familiar with one or the other. I just don’t buy that a person who is one kind of fluffer would not know that the other kind of fluffer exists.
@Jacquilynne- 100% I’m with you on this! The blurb makes such a big deal of her being a home fluffer (which I have never heard before, I would have called that job a stager) and being the best at it, that it really strains belief that she would have never encountered the double meaning.
I’m generally turned off by TSTL heroines, and this seems to fall in the same camp albeit she’s more “too oblivious” than too stupid.
Kim Fielding is one of my favorite authors; she writes m/m romances. I see the following of her works are FREE:
— A Very Genre Christmas (full length novel)
— The Golem of Mala Lubovnya (78 pages)
@Jacquilynne It would be impossible for me to suspend my disbelief on that one too. Haven’t done rug making, but basket weaving hoo boy! I was a proud member of the naughty corner but I was only using standard terminology like bend it over hard, keep it moist, hold the pressure, whip the edge 😉 I’m sure that lots of occupations and hobbies have similar fun.