A Very Lively Murder (Three Dahlias Mysteries Book 2)

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With all that being said, I will read the next in the series, although I'm not as excited about it as I was with this one. The friendship that has formed despite the initial professional rivalry between the three leads is something that we need more of in not only literature but in life.

After reading the first book earlier in the year I was eagerly awaiting the next instalment and it did not disappoint! A must for fans of classic mysteries' Frances Brody'An affectionate homage to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and a wry nod to our continuing fascination with it. It's always a little nervewracking heading into the second book of a series when the first book set the standard so high but I needn't have worrried, we are in safe hands here. Katy Watson was able to keep me on my toes and I did not guess the culprit with plenty of twists along the way.The premise of actresses who have played a 'Golden Age' detective solving crimes seems a little far fetched but works so well. Having met them in the first book of the same name, I feel like I know them better now, they each bring something to the story, wit, verve, glamour and gumption plus the determination to get to the bottom of murder. The Three Dahlias refers to Dahlia Lively a fictional lady detective and the three different actresses who have played her over the years. Caro, too, had her arms folded tightly across her chest, her eyebrows furrowed, as she tried to make sense of it.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The development of Posy as she learns to be worthy of the mantle of their beloved Dahlia Lively is captivating.I've read an interview where the author said she wrote this in 2020, but it was released only in 2022.

There's, literally, a cast of supporting characters and potential suspects for the Dahlias to get to know and form opinions about.badges that one of the characters creates are inspired and I hope will soon be available in really life?

As the murders happen, motives are unclear and the author lays plenty of false trails for the three dahlias as well as the reader to follow. Rosalind receiving death threats, a missing Casting Director and a hit-and-run death of one of the film's stars prompts another Three Dahlias investigation, to discover whether the events are connected and who is to blame.I knew I would be in safe hands with Katy Watson and A Very Lively Murder was everything I hoped it would be!