Review: Missing Blahnik; blah storyline...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
The Case of the Missing Blahnik is sort of a short throw-away prequel to the other Laura Carnegie/Fashion Ave mysteries.  There wasn't much mystery, suspense, romance etc in this book.  Ruby (Laura's sister), during a night of drunken carousing, somehow lost one of the uber-expensive Blahniks she borrowed from her employer.  Laura needs to help Ruby find it so she won't lose her job (or worse, lose face) with her employer.  Evidently, being thought of as a screw-up (even if you are), is worse than losing your job.The hunt for the missing shoe just wasn't very interesting, no matter how sparkly or expensive the shoe was, and nothing about the characters or situation, involved me enough to even care.  Luckily, I'm already acquainted with Laura, Jeremy and the other main characters and know how great they are, so this didn't bother me too much.  Really loved the three other books and guess I shouldn't complain too much since I got this one free, but if you read this one first and are disappointed, please don't stop --- give the other three books in this series a chance or try some of Ms. DeMaio-Rice's other books (also writes as CD Reiss).  That's my take on it, as always, YMMV.