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Mother-Daughter Murder Night
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.
“The perfect mix of family drama and murder mystery” (Kellye Garrett, award-winning author) in this lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths. Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder.
High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she’s built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage—and hoping that boredom won’t kill her before the cancer does.
Then Jack—tiny in stature but fiercely independent—happens upon a dead body while kayaking. She quickly becomes a suspect in the homicide investigation, and the Rubicon women are thrown into chaos. Beth thinks Lana should focus on recovery, but Lana has a better idea. She’ll pull on her wig, find the true murderer, protect her family, and prove she still has power.
With Jack and Beth’s help, Lana uncovers a web of lies, family vendettas, and land disputes lurking beneath the surface of a community populated by folksy conservationists and wealthy ranchers. But as their amateur snooping advances into ever-more dangerous territory, the headstrong Rubicon women must learn to do the one thing they’ve always resisted: depend on each other.
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Reviews
This is not a book. It’s more like a chapter out of a book. No story, no plot, nothing!
By aoneplayer
Weak story, poorly told.
By dominolouis
The four stars are for admiration about the writing. I grew to be very fond of the characters and their developing stories. Jack and Lana, especially, will stay in my mind for a very long time. For anyone interested in bays, rivers, streams, sloughs, land use, geography, etc., this book would be fascinating. But I didn’t understand a word of that aspect of the story. The whodunnit swung cleverly back-and-forth and all around, but this book is over-long.
By midlotam
Characters were drawn with fascinating depth and compassion. Descriptions of environment puts you there.
By Nellie and Lile
The story starts out well enough but goes on and on and on. The overwrought melodramatic "reveal" was ridiculous. I realize that this is a first novel, but I wish the author had had a better editor.
By DeniseJY