Review: Just FAAAAAABulous, darlings!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2013
I read the first Mia Ferrari book and thought it was a good strong first book in a series. If you're not familiar with Mia Ferrari, she's a middle-aged wannabe cop who does her own investigations when murders happen at the hotel where she works (and, with this book and the one from the previous one, that's happening rather frequently - if it happens any more the hotel's going to get a rep for being the place you're most likely to get murdered :)In this one, a collection of drag queens in town for a gay Mardi Gras (um, is there any other kind?!?! LOL) find themselves targeted by what appears to be a serial killer - except for one seeming suicide. Mia Ferrari contends with her ongoing enmity with Smythe, a cop, and her attraction to his young bad-boy partner Sean Webb, all while she's trying to solve the mystery of the murders, as well as what happened to a large jewel that has mysteriously disappeared at the same time.There are hints in the first book that at least some of the enmity between Smythe and Ferrari may have an underlying sexual tension, but this is brought out more clearly in the novel, and was the piece I enjoyed the most. It's well-handled, including when Mia's friend begins an affair with Smythe which fuels Mia's hostility, but she herself is not quite certain why. I hope this continues in the next book as Smythe has become more of an interesting character for me (I'm not much moved by David, with whom Mia is seemingly still in love).The plot complexities are greater in this novel than in the previous novel, although there are multiple murders in this one compared to a solo murder in "Playing With The Bad Boys." All in all, a good solid read and an excellent continuation from Book 1.