Author: Alretha Thomas
Genre: murder mystery
Series: Rachel Storme 3
A Penny For Her Heart : Review
Rachel Storme is back in book 3, with a more complicated story and more exciting stage. When Vanessa Rossi found her best friend, Penelope “Penny” Newhouse dead at their work place. Worse of all, it is near the election time, and their boss the Mayor wanted to get everything solved before polls plummet.
Like the previous books, Rachel is a meticulous detective that inspects all leads. In Penny For Her Heart, there was one crucial clue that stopped Rachel from wrapping up the case when her boss said so. With the backing for her partner Herb, she digs deeper to find the real killer.
The author, Alretha throws in a lot of convincing red herrings. The skeletons that turned up from the investigation could have convinced a lot of people who were murderer was. If it were not for Rachel’s attention to detail, the real killer might have walked away free. Of course, in politics, things get murky. The setting was perfect, the mystery is a puzzle waiting to be solved.
Aside from the murder, Rachel has to deal with her family issues. Vanessa, the girl who found the body had to get on with life. But as clues keep popping up, Vanessa had to wonder if she is safe at all. With the killer at large, without a real motive, anyone could be next. That alone was enough to keep me reading until the end, because not only there were a lot of suspects, everyone seemed to have an alibi.
Verdict
A Penny For Her Heart has what a murder mystery needs : no suspects! keep digging, Rachel... Share on XI like Rachel Storme series because the whole story just twists into something else by the end. Ever lousy at reading clues, this proves to me that I am a lousy detective, I got everything wrong.
Too bad there’s not butler in this one.
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Oh this sounds like a really good puzzle. I love it when it is hard to figure out whodoneit. 🙂 Probably a good thing there wasn’t a butler in this one. He would have totally done it. 🙂
hahaha i wish right? this one is pretty good mystery
I love the twists. So glad you are having fun with this series.
oh yes! probably should ask if the author is going to do audiobooks soon