Review: 2nd outing just as fun
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2013
I always enjoy good mystery stories that involve female detectives. Since I have three children, all girls, I like to be able to introduce them to strong female characters in novels. Previously I had read the first book in the series and now I've gotten around to reading the follow. I wasn't disappointed.Like the first book, Emily is thrust into a mystery quite unexpectedly when she received a threatening letter meant for her neighbor. He friend thinks it's just an ex-boyfriend, but Emily has her doubts and digs deeper. Since this book is in a series, several of the characters from book one are present. Having met the other people in Emily's life previously, the author is able to go a bit deeper in developing them and some cases gives significantly more page time to the supporting cast.Despite the attention paid to Emily's world and the people in it, Emily is still the center of the story and her sleuthing, even when helped out by friends, is key to the overall conclusion.I don't believe book three is available just yet, but if Ms. Smith keeps up the overall quality of her writing, then it'll be one worth reading when it does get published.