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Review of Five Belles Too Many

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Five Belles Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein

From the publisher of Five Belles Too Many

Sometimes Sarah’s mother, Maybelle, can be higher maintenance than her Siamese cat RahRah. Maybelle and her friend, Mr. George Rogers, have been chosen to be one of five couples competing for a small-town “perfect” wedding and dream honeymoon on a Southern Belles reality show—and guess who has to be chaperone. Even more vexing, the producers have decided to put up the crew and participants at the restaurant/bed and breakfast owned by Sarah’s nemesis Jane Clark.

But when someone turns up dead with Jane kneeling by the body with blood on her hands, she goes from being Sarah’s chief rival to the police’s chief suspect. Neither Sarah nor her twin, Chef Emily Johnson, can stand Jane—still, they don’t think she’s a murderer. The producers vow the show must go on, but to protect their mother and the other contestants, Sarah vows to find the true killer before someone else gets eliminated…

My review

There are no easy solutions in the fifth Sarah Blair Mystery. A wedding competition is coming to town, kicking into gear a competition for a dream wedding. The backdrop of reality television combined with plenty of quirky personalities made this an entertaining mystery filled with twists and turns. I appreciated the fact that Sarah tried to keep herself out of the investigation, but that circumstances dragged her in. This is, in a sense, a very cerebral series, so it’s a good read for those who like their sleuths to reason through the clues to eventually unmask the killer. 

FTC Full Disclosure: A review copy of this book was provided by its publisher.

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About Terry

I started out as a skip tracer. Just in case you don’t know, that’s the guy who finds the people who don’t want to be found. It was the little things—getting paid to lie—that made skip tracing the fun part of the job.

Those years of chasing deadbeats taught me many valuable life lessons, such as liars come from all walks of life, and always keep your car in the garage.

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  1. Debra H. Goldstein says

    Terry,
    Thank you for hosting me today on the tour and for your kind review of Five Belles Too Many. I like the cerebral image because it goes with making whodunits fun for the readers.