Title: Playing with Poison
Author: CindyBlackburn
Review: Jessie Hewitt is a fifty two year old divorced
single woman who writes romance novels, loves her roof top garden, cat snowflake
and plays a mean game of pool. One day
her neighbors boyfriend falls dead on her couch and she is accused of murder by
a handsome cop a few years younger than her.
Play with poison had me
laugh as Jessie was writing her romance novels while trying to keep her
neighbor and friend Candy Poppe out of jail for the murder of her
boyfriend. Even with the topic of murder
the author keeps the story light, and a humorous pace that keeps the reader
wondering who done it. The dialogue is witty and sarcastic but it propels the
mystery forward never dragging it out. The characters dialogue seems to flow and
feel completely natural as if this is how the author talks like she writes.
I will admit I did get a
little lost with the endless cast of characters and keeping them all straight
was a bit annoying and sometimes I felt they were not necessary to keeping the
story going forward.
No sex in the book but
enough sexual tension wondering if Jessie and her Cop will end up together.
"You mean you write
this stuff?
Yes, I actually do.
Believe it or not, my steamy sex scenes are stuff of legend in romance circles.
I'm damn good.
A slow grin made its way
across his face. Oh Ms. Hewitt, I'm sure you are."
The author characters
names had me laughing each time I read the Candy Popped and Stanley Sweeter
alone with Jessie pen name Adelè Nightingale.
You can tell that Cindy Blackburn had a lot of fun writing this novel.
This book is a fun pool
or beach read.
Thanks Heidi for this
review.
Published: Published September 18th 2012 by Amazon Digital
Services, Inc.
ISBN: B009D99R0I
Page Count: 251
Quick
Review: 4 out 5 stars – for grammar and spelling
error on my Kindle edition.
Why I Read
this Title: Sent by the publisher for review
Synopsis: Pool
shark Jessie Hewitt usually knows where the balls will fall and how the game
will end. But when a body lands on her couch, and the cute cop in her kitchen
accuses her of murder, even Jessie isn't sure what will happen next.
Playing With Poison is a
cozy mystery with a lot of humor, a little romance, and far too much champagne.
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