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Killer On A Hot Tin Roof (2010)

by Livia J. Washburn(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0758225709 (ISBN13: 9780758225702)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Kensington

series

A Delilah Dickinson Literary Tour Mystery

review 1: I liked Delilah in the beginning, but had a difficult time remaining "in the voice." At times it pulled me out of the story and I had to struggle to get back in. Perhaps the narrative style just isn't for me.The entire literary tour idea is still wonderful and leads to a great, diverse cast of minor characters. At times they and their petty squabbles were the most enjoyable parts of the book. The book really hooked me at the end of the first chapter, but it the slow pace soon lost me.It seemed like it took a long time to build up to the mystery and the details, while nice, detracted from the overall plot. I did not need to know about the floor and the countertops. They were good, descriptive touches, but I felt more time could have been spent on the mystery portion o... moref the story.As for the mystery portion: it was quite predictable. Now, I like cozy mysteries because I don't have to think too hard about figuring out "whodunit" but this one was a little too predictable. I did find this book to be a quick, light read. If you're looking for a fasy mystery with a distinctly Southern voice, then I recommend this book (and the rest of the series).Disclosure: I received this book through GoodReads First Reads.
review 2: Delilah Dickinson is a single woman who owns her own travel agency in Atlanta, Georgia that specializes in tours focusing on popular Southern literary writers. Her tours, featuring attractions and events from Mark Twain’s and Margaret Mitchell’s classics have been spoiled by shocking occurrences of assassinations and chaos. Delilah has become a novice investigator, though she doesn’t realize or acknowledge it, and she has the aptitude for solving these crimes. She does realize that too much infamy could destroy the small travel agency she runs with her family.Delilah contracts to lead a group of professors to New Orleans to attend the annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, she thinks the tour will be relaxing, reasoning that professors were unlikely to be too much trouble also, her friend and possible love interest, Dr. Will Burke, would come along. But Delilah’s soon realizes that the professors are not too easily handled. They drink and get drunk, they have affairs, they guard family secrets that would ruin them if they were exposed; and more than a couple of them appear to hate each other.When a key figure turns up dead, and Delilah is the one to have found the body, she has to work diligently to prove her innocence to the police and to find the killer before she herself turns into his victim.I won’t give away the ending but I will say this was a fun read!4 Stars less

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