Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.
Kate is really rethinking her decision to attend her ex-finance’s wedding. She’s much more comfortable at home with her best-selling mystery book characters, but since the bride’s influential aunt personally invited her to the wedding with a message saying “I’ll make it worth your while”, who was Kate to say no? But here she is at the rehearsal cocktail hour having just knocked the bride, who also happens to the woman her finance left her for. It only gets more awkward when Kate ends up first at the scene of several very mysterious events meant to derail the wedding. Will she get framed for the crimes or will Kate channel her literary heroine to solve the crimes and keep the wedding on track?
Jenny Elder Moke is back with a new cast of characters in She Doesn’t Have a Clue. Channeling Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the author delivers a fun who-done-it mystery that will keep you guessing to the very end. Full of romance, intrigue, and drama this book is all about knowing who you can trust and learning to put the past behind you. This book really has something for everyone!
I give She Doesn’t Have a Clue 4 out of 5 stars. I really enjoyed the mystery and the romance of this plot, but took exception to something early in book that nearly made me put it down. The author describes one of her male characters as having a “drinker’s nose” or “alcoholic nose”, derogatory terms for what is medically known as Rhinophyma. The author utilizes these terms in reference to the characters habitual overindulgence, but Rhinophyma is a side effect of untreated rosacea, not alcoholism. Utilizing stereotypes like this detract from the plot and caused me to more carefully review her character descriptions for other missteps like this. This book would have received a higher rating without the inclusion of this horrible stereotype. I really loved the demeanor of the bride – both ditzy and yet very intelligent, but also willing to build bridges to pull everyone together. The female characters in this book are strong and powerful, if they could just get out of their own way.
Looking beyond the stereotype mentioned above, this book would make a great read for mystery lovers. If you love Agatha Christie novels or the “Knives Out” movie, you will love this book. I would also recommend this book to readers looking for a lighter read – while the mystery does have some drama, the dialogue and descriptive writing kept it light and ad me laughing.
The publisher’s blurb on this novel drew me in when I saw it on NetGalley. I loved the literary world inside the novel and the family drama. She Doesn’t Have a Clue hits bookshelves on January 21st, but you can preorder your copy today in our Bookshop.org store!
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