Review: Not Silly, Just Stupid
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
Okay, granted, it's Chick Lit so it's not like I was expecting a deep and meaningful story.  But still...Zoey buys some real estate on a back taxes sale.  She's not sure what she's expecting - 80 acres of nothing? - but she finds a beautiful old mansion filled with antiques.  (One assumes the records on the building burned down with the rest of the city in the 1920's, otherwise the mansion would be showing up on the tax assessors records.)  Now...the story might have made something of itself with a good editor, but mother and daughter sharing a bedroom and sleeping in the same bed every night when there are tons of rooms going unused?  A boyfriend who has bring his cat along when he spends the night?  Not to mention that there seems to be no police investigation after the murder on the second night, or when all the skeletons are found in the basement?  The girls don't actually solve the riddles, they just sort of come upon the solutions.  And finally, the IRS showing up to assess the property?  The Property Assessors office does that and the property taxes would have been paid in full when she purchased the property at auction.  (That is under local, not federal, jurisdiction.)  The only thing she'd owe IRS taxes on would be on any antiques she'd sold off, and on any income the manor earned during the two days it was being a hotel.  Oh, yeah...and what happened to the gun that the old geezer stole?  Why are you all fighting over a shovel? Seriously, skip this one.  Even if it is a freebie.