From the back cover: I seem to be gathering quite a collection of murder victims: first my husband, then my contractor. And now my ex-husband’s fiancée has turned up dead. But I, Gracie Lee Harris, am on the job – much to the dismay of my boyfriend, homicide detective Ray Fernandez. I’ve enlisted the ladies of the Christian Friends to help me figure out who killed my ex’s sweetie not long before their wedding. My ex is the prime suspect, but his fiancée kept secrets that might have been deadly. I just pray that her secrets don’t get me killed!
No Love Lost by Lynn Bulock was one of my beach reads and it fit the bill perfectly! It is described on the front cover as a cozy mystery. I’m not sure how a book earns that title, especially when the plot of the book involves a dead person! But it was a fun book to read and as far as mysteries go, not too graphic or morbid.
Overall I enjoyed the book. The characters are likeable, the plot kept me hooked, and there was a touch of humor that I appreciated. I had not read one of Lynn Bulock’s books previously, but apparently she has written a few other Gracie Lee mysteries that would be fun to check out.
This book was published by Steeple Hill Books in 2007.
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July 29th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
You’re right; it does sound like a good beach read!
July 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Have you seen some of the coffins they make these days? The dead fortunate enough to make their way into the next world in one of those are probably more comfortable than I am in my bed.
Did the dead person fall into that category?
I like beach reads and this one sounds like a lot of fun.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
This looks good, I love cozy mysteries!
With cozy mysteries, they almost always include someone dead but you don’t get all the gory details like you do in books by Iris Johansen, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson & the like.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
This sounds like a wonderful read, I’ll have to check this one out.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Definitely sounds like my kind of mystery. No gore or scary suspense… things happen, then someone tries to figure it out, maybe with a scrape or two along the way. Thanks for the review!