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Lowcountry Bordello
Автор: Susan M. Boyer
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The Charleston streets are dressed for the holidays in sophisticated Southern style: topiaries adorned with red ribbons, garland entwined with white lights, and poinsettias potted in gold planters.
The high class bordello in a stately historic home is certainly no exception. When Private Investigator Liz Talbot's dear friend Olivia swears she saw a dead body in the parlor of this bordello, one Olivia accidentally co-owns, Liz promptly comes to her aid.
With her wedding back home on Stella Maris less than a week away, Liz must juggle one elderly madam, two ex and future in-laws, three ghosts in the bordello, four giddy bridesmaids, five lovely courtesans, six suspicious patrons…and a partridge in a pear tree as she tries to keep her bridesmaid out of jail and live to walk down the aisle.
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LOWCOUNTRY BORDELLO by Susan M. Boyer - A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.
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Lowcountry Bordello
Автор: Susan M. Boyer
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The Charleston streets are dressed for the holidays in sophisticated Southern style: topiaries adorned with red ribbons, garland entwined with white lights, and poinsettias potted in gold planters.
The high class bordello in a stately historic home is certainly no exception. When Private Investigator Liz Talbot's dear friend Olivia swears she saw a dead body in the parlor of this bordello, one Olivia accidentally co-owns, Liz promptly comes to her aid.
With her wedding back home on Stella Maris less than a week away, Liz must juggle one elderly madam, two ex and future in-laws, three ghosts in the bordello, four giddy bridesmaids, five lovely courtesans, six suspicious patrons…and a partridge in a pear tree as she tries to keep her bridesmaid out of jail and live to walk down the aisle.
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LOWCOUNTRY BORDELLO by Susan M. Boyer - A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.
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My first Christmas-themed book of the season is from one of my favorite cozy mystery authors and a Henery Press book. This is a paranormal mystery series - definitely cozy. For those who eye paranormal books sideways, this is the guardian angel/ghosts variety of paranormal with nothing dark or evil. The writing is faced-paced, well done and fun to read. Liz is a P.I. so we aren't subjected to amateur sleuthing pitfalls, and the small love triangle introduced in the first book was resolved after the second. The mystery plot takes place in the run-up to Christmas and Liz is helping out a friend who inherited half of a family home, only to find out it's being run as a bordello. Sort of. It is a bordello, but not the kind I was imagining. The whole thing was interesting and as Liz is a P.I. we're getting the information as she does so there's no contrivance on the author's part to leave the reader stunned with a surprise, but it wasn't boring or predictable either. There are some books I'd love to be able to tell the publisher: here's my credit card; just automatically send me every new one in hardcover as soon as it's published, please. The Liz Talbot series would be at the top of my list (along with the Headline in High Heels series). This is one of the few cozy series left that I find myself counting down the days to release, and I look forward to the next one.
Rating: 4Oh no, now I'm on the last book in the series and then I'll have to wait for the next t come out! This book, like the last two, was wonderful and engaging, especially since we had just visited Charleston and ate at the Cru Cafe!
Rating: 5Lowcountry Bordello by Susan M. Boyer is the fourth book in the Liz Talbot Mystery series. Liz Talbot and Nate Andrews are getting married on Christmas. They are working to finish up their last case so they can enjoy the days leading up to their wedding. Then Liz receives a call from Robert Pearson. He is a local attorney on Stella Maris (an island near Charleston, South Carolina). Robert wants to hire Liz to follow his wife, Olivia (who is Liz? best friend and a bridesmaid). Robert says that Olivia has been acting strange lately. Liz refuses the job. Then that evening Liz receives a frantic call from Olivia. Olivia insists that Robert is dead inside a house Olivia co-owns with her Aunt Dean (Willadean Beauthorpe). Liz rushes to Olivia (takes about an hour since she has to take the ferry to the mainland) and they enter the house. There is no dead body. When Liz calls Robert, he is very much alive. Did Olivia really see a dead body? Olivia refuses to call the police. The house is a secret among the rich men in the community. Originally, Aunt Dean and her deceased sister rented out rooms in the house to college girls. They needed the money to keep the house. But then the men started keeping their ?nieces? (aka mistresses) in the rooms (and the men can visit them discreetly). Liz and her fianc?, Nate believe that Liz might have imagined the dead man until a dead body is found in a nearby park the next day. Thurston Middleton is a local real estate developer and was getting ready to enter the political arena. Thurston looks a lot like Olivia?s husband Robert (explains why Olivia mistook him in the dark room). Who killed Thurston? Was he killed in the house (If so, then who moved the body)? What was Thurston doing in the house? Liz and Nate agree to investigate (and then they can turn it over to the police). Can they finish in time for the wedding? Lowcountry Bordello was delightful to read. It is the fourth book in the series, but it can be enjoyed without have read the other books in the series (though you will want to read them). It is told from Liz? point-of-view. I normally do not enjoy books written in the first person, but I felt it suited this book. It had just the right blend of romance, humor (there is a very funny scene near the end that will have you laughing out loud), and mystery. In addition, there is a fun paranormal element in the form of a ghost. Colleen is a deceased friend of Liz?. She protects Stella Maris and Liz. The mystery was very good (nice and complicated). It was not an easy mystery to figure out. There is a sweet ending with a lovely Christmas wedding. I liked the author?s nice conversational type writing style. It makes for an easy to read book. I just wish that there had been more clues. We get a lot of information and suspects, but not real clues that can help the reader figure out the mystery. The book also felt a little rushed. Everything was crunched into just four days. There is a lot going on in the book. There are the preparations for the wedding (with a controlling wedding planner), the murder mystery, Christmas, and much more. I wish it had been spaced out a little more over a couple of weeks instead of days (leaves a person feeling a little anxious). I liked the paranormal element, but I felt there was not enough of it. I wanted more (I liked what there was though). I give Lowcountry Bordello 4 out of 5 stars. I will definitely be reading more books by Susan Boyer. I received a complimentary copy of Lowcountry Bordello from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Rating: 4Liz Talbot and her PI partner Nate Andrews are days away from their wedding when they become embroiled in a mystery that surrounds Liz?s friend Olivia and her aunt?s house as well as several members of Charleston?s upper crust. Olivia?s aunt owns a rooming house that is really and ?undercover? bordello, where several Charleston scions house their current ?love interests?. Add a murder of a rising politician, committed at or near this house, to the mix, and Liz is off running, along with Nate, to figure out who killed the man as well as what else has been going on with the residents of this rooming house and their ?patrons?. Like the other books in this series, this one portrays a strong, competent, but sometimes impulsive, PI, Liz, going after the truth in a story line that the author has filled with many interesting twists and turns. In this one, we get a better picture of Liz?s husband-to-be, Nate, as the partners put their heads together and pool thoughts and ideas to follow through on a series of clues to discover the solution of this murder. I enjoyed seeing, yet again, Liz Talbot in action, as she tries to figure out what exactly is going on. In addition, I enjoyed the clever twists and turns, one after another, throughout. Like the other books in the series, this one also presented a fairly good picture of life in Charleston?s low country. I enjoyed the chemistry between Liz and Nate, both in their romance and in their PI endeavors. They definitely make a great team in more ways than one. There are characters introduced in the other books who make an appearance in this one, who, though without very much back story so the new reader can fully understand and enjoy them and their interactions with each other and with the PI partners, provide the necessary compliment to the setting and mystery and its plots and sub-plots. Once again, the author captivated me from the get-go, as I am sure she will any reader. The book reads smoothly and quickly. The story is quite good, so I encourage anyone to pick this one up for a short reprieve from the humdrum of daily life. I received this from NetGalley to read and review.
Rating: 5Oh, what fun
It is to read
A Liz Talbot Mystery
Set at Christmastime!
The murders take place at The Best Little Whorehouse in Charleston. Liz, with Nate's able assistance, figures out whodunit, of course.
Colleen has a much bigger part to play in this book. She even lets herself Be Seen!
And the best part of all is the ending. Liz gets married ? to the right Andrews guy this time.
Lowcountry Bordello is amazing! I totally recommend it. I can't wait to read the next book in the Liz Talbot Mystery series, Lowcountry Book Club, due out in Spring 2016.
Rating: 5It is to read
A Liz Talbot Mystery
Set at Christmastime!
The murders take place at The Best Little Whorehouse in Charleston. Liz, with Nate's able assistance, figures out whodunit, of course.
Colleen has a much bigger part to play in this book. She even lets herself Be Seen!
And the best part of all is the ending. Liz gets married ? to the right Andrews guy this time.
Lowcountry Bordello is amazing! I totally recommend it. I can't wait to read the next book in the Liz Talbot Mystery series, Lowcountry Book Club, due out in Spring 2016.