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MY REVIEW:
The perfect cozy mystery to kick off the new year! Val and Roddy are a wealthy married couple in the late 1800s that always happen to find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation. Val’s wild west personality matches Roddy’s fun-loving lawyer quirks so well! A really fun read if you LOVE cozy mysteries!
Val and Roddy have returned to Newport the spend their socialite summer amongst their wealthy peerage. Roddy wants Val to have her portrait painted for his office and when they find a dead body in the art gallery, everyone begins to believe that Val is the killer.
Trying to clear their names, they investigate the goings on in town to try and catch the real killer and clear their names before they’re completed removed from polite society.
I love Tichi’s mysteries as these two characters bring humor and light-heartedness to the focus, even when dealing with a murder scene. They are funny and witty; keeping me entertained for hours as I dive into the gilded age of the late 1800s.
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Newport Summer 1899-yachts, balls, and famed artists eager to paint portraits of Society’s “Queens.”
Western silver heiress Val Mackle DeVere (Mrs. Roderick W.) agrees to “sit” for a portrait for her beloved Roddy, only to stumble on a scene of bloody, grisly homicide at an art gallery.
Like a figure from Pompeii, the dead Newport gallery manager screams in silence, his hands like claws clutching at a gilt frame pulled down over his head and shoulders while blood darkens his cream-colored suit.
Impulsive, Val reaches for the murder weapon and will find herself suspected, shamed, and shunned as she seeks the killer while learning yet again a lesson taught by Cornelius Vanderbilt “No city on earth is as hostile to outsiders as Newport.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cally Jackson
A fresh start for every new book, and author Tichi’s zest for America’s Gilded Age and its boldface names draws this seasoned writer to a crime fiction series while uncorking the country’s cocktail cultures on the printed (and ebook) page. Tichi digs deep into the Vanderbilt University research library to mine the late 1800-1900s history and customs of Society’s “Four Hundred,” its drinks, and the ways high-stakes crimes in its midst make for a gripping “Gilded” mystery series that rings true to the tumultuous era.
The decades of America’s industrial titans and “Queens” of Society have loomed large in Tichi’s books for several years, and the titles track her recent projects:
• Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us)
• Jack London: A Writer’s Fight for a Better America
• What Would Mrs. Astor Do? A Complete Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
• Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from the Golden Age
• Jazz Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from the Roaring Twenties.
• A Gilded Death (crime fiction)
• Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park (crime fiction)
• A Fatal Gilded High Note (crime fiction)
Cecelia is at work on a fourth in the series, “A Gilded Free Fall.” She enjoys membership and posting in Facebook’s The Gilded Age Society. You can read more about Cecelia by visiting her Wikipedia page at: https://bit.ly/Tichiwiki or her website: https://cecebooks.com.
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