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The Museum Murder - Katie Gayle - Bookouture Blog Tour

4/1/2021

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Description:
Dastardly deeds, daring deceptions and a dress to die for… Epiphany Bloom is back on the case!

Epiphany ‘Pip’ Bloom, would-be detective and London’s unluckiest woman, finds herself in a real costume drama when she unearths a theft at a fashion museum.

The missing dress is a proper piece of Hollywood history, worth a fortune. And as Pip investigates, she finds the museum staff all had reasons to want the garment gone. From fancy boutiques to sketchy back alleys, Pip discovers the fashion world is not all glitz and glamour as she hunts down her prize.

As if she doesn’t have enough on her plate, Pip also has her growing feelings for her housemate Tim to contend with, a family of cats to feed and her mother keeps phoning about a shipment of llamas arriving any day now from South America.

But there’s no time for distractions because Pip’s not the only one after the dress. And for the most dedicated collectors, a piece like this is worth any price – even murder…

A laugh-out-loud, light-hearted cozy mystery for fans of M.C. Beaton, T.E. Kinsey and Joanne Fluke, that will have you reading late into the night.

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My thoughts
Aaaaaaahhh, one of my favorite morally grey characters is back at it!! This time Pip goes pop culture, trying to find the iconic dress worn by Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Yes, the red off-the-shoulder dress with the white long gloves Vivian wears to the opera on her date with Edward. Once again, Pip puts her sleuth skills to work and once again she is a walking disaster (albeit not quite as bad as in the first book). Struggling in her work life, she finds a job she might actually finally keep for a longer period of time. If you know Pip from the previous books, you know that she gets in trouble a lot in her professional life. Her sexy housemate Tim appears in the book again and helps her with his hacker skills. I loved seeing that Pip and Tim finally seem to get to "base 2" in their relationship. There is more to their relationship, whether they like to admit it or not. Pip's sister with her mad skills of using the wrong idioms which make her super funny makes a cameo as well. Those three make this book just as good as the previous one. If you expect a 100% realistic book, you may be in for a slight disappointment. But if you are all for an entertaining story in which the characters are just a bit too over the top to be quite from the real world and love the 1990s, you should give this book a try. There are lots of pop culture and movie references and of course the book also includes a murder, as the title suggests. This book is a quick and fun cozy mystery novel set in London!
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About the authors:
Katie Gayle is the writing partnership of best-selling South African writers, Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel. Kate and Gail have, between them, written over ten books of various genres, but with Katie Gayle, they both make their debut in the cozy mystery genre. Both Gail and Kate live in Johannesburg, with husbands, children, dogs and cats. Unlike their sleuth Epiphany Bloom, neither of them have ever stolen a cat from the vet.
 
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​Product details:
  • ​Pages (ebook): 260
  • Publisher: Bookouture (March 31, 2021)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN (ebook): B08PPVZ6QP
​Where to buy:
Amazon: https://bit.ly/3chaM1l
Apple: https://apple.co/3qzldlV
Kobo: https://bit.ly/3mTY1MV
Google: https://bit.ly/33QqdsO

My blog post is one of many as part of a blog tour. For more thoughts on this particular book, check out the other blog tour participants' blogs and show them some love!!
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