Review: Makeup is murder!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2012
I received a complimentary copy of this book in order toreview it.  This is the first book in the Toni Diamond mystery series.  It's off to a promising start.  Toni Diamond is a young, single parent who supports herself and her teenaged daughter by selling high end cosmetics (think Mary Kay).  When she attends a huge cosmetics seminar, the conference center becomes the stage for some grueling murders that our heroine unintentionally gets involved in solving.  At one point she may even be a suspect.  Since a mystery writers seminar is taking place at the same conference center, the evidence gets confusing.  Is someone acting out mystery fantasies by committing murder?  Eventually the clues all start to point back to members of the most competitive cosmetics teams.  Toni manages to get herself in hot water (and suds!) when she accidentally figures it all out before her cop/love interest does.  There's a lot of action at the end as we wonder if her man will save the day, or if she'd better do some quick thinking and save herself.  This book has a lot of humorous moments to balance out the tragedy, and our heroine solves the mystery in a timely manner, all while looking fabulous and selling makeup.  This is a fun, light read.  It would be a great beach book.