Photo Snap Shot: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery Joanna Campbell Slan. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7387-1976-4
In Agatha-finalist Slan's diverting third scrapbooking mystery (after 2009's Cut, Crop & Die), Kiki Lowenstein's 12-year-old daughter, Anya, a student at St. Louis's fancy Charles and Anne Lindbergh Academy, ventures with another girl into the balcony of the school theater, where they stumble on the dead body of an unpopular teacher, Sissy Gilchrist. Hired on the basis of her family's social standing, Sissy was dating a black man—an act that may have given someone motive for murder. Kiki teams again with her crush, the unfortunately married Det. Chad Detweiler, who investigated her husband's still unsolved murder in the first book in the series, Paper, Scissors, Death (2008). Kiki's job at Time in a Bottle, a scrapbooking store, sometimes distracts from the murder investigation, but the subject of racial prejudice makes this a cut above the usual craft-themed cozy. (May)
7 comments:
Great review, Joanna! I can't wait to read it. (I'm in the middle of your first one now and digging it!)
Thanks, Alan. I can't wait to read yours!
Counting the days till I can read this one too! Love this series Joanna... Kiki rocks!
Why do you remove posts? Are they mean and hurtful? xxKaren
Karen, sometimes posts get removed because the same post will appear twice or because there's a misspelling. So far I haven't had any cruel posts, but I have had posts that try to sell pharmaceuticals, and those I always delete.
Lorry, thanks for the enthusiasm! Makes a long day of editing easier to face!
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