About the book: As excited as Elizabeth is to hit the Big Apple, Lucy’s less thrilled to be heading straight into post-holiday shopping crowds in the middle of a flu epidemic. But, Elizabeth has won mother/daughter winter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie magazine and Lucy is in. The pampering is nice (never underestimate the transformative powers of a $500 haircut) and the glitz and glamour of haute couture is bizarrely fascinating, but bitterness and aggression lurk behind the Jolie’s hipper-than-thou faade. And things turn downright ugly when self-absorbed fashion editor Nadine Nelson falls mysteriously ill and then dies. But this Manhattan murder mystery hits too close to home when Elizabeth gets rushed to the hospital with symptoms that are disturbingly similar to Nadine’s. Now, it’s up to Lucy to dress down a killer before the ball drops in Times Square…
My Review: This was a fun read but not as engaging as the other Lucy Stone mysteries I have read. Lucy is getting older as are the children, and although a make-over in New York City sounds like a blast, the make-over was a very little part of the story. The characters are somewhat stereo-typical, and I was ho-humming near the end of the book when Lucy was running all over the city in quite unbelievable situations trying to solve the mystery. Whereas the other books I read were more believable this definitely had cartoon character qualities. The book ended on New Year’s Eve instead of beginning as the title implies. I will read more of these books, this was not my favorite.
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