Review: Tongue in Cheek
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
Familiar Romance with Mystery kindle book though a bargain at the current (zero) price. Tongue in Cheek? Yes,I simply refuse to believe that the author didn't get a kick out of her traditional Mistress of the Manor-Stable boy plot device nor the hardly virginal (divorced) heroine's response to her "unacceptable" lust for her former "Bad Boy" fellow student. That aside, this is a familiar Kindle book plot, with a genteel Southern Woman as Amateur detective, working now as a real estate agent, who faces murder by person or  persons unknown and determines to help the police find out who dun it. Parallel to the murder mystery are her efforts to mask the fact that she is seeing, all in the interest of crime-solving, a man who is socially unacceptable to her family which still lives by the social norms relevant to the acceptable spouse for a young woman. The book dwells not at all seriously with the problems facing the heroine and the police, nor at all seriously with the will she/will he/if he does, then what, central non-murder related aspects of the story. It is well written, with a suitably light touch, and over-all, an entertaining though familiar story.