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Paint Me a Crime

A Rose Shore Mystery, Book 1

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Paint Me a Crime

By: Holly Yew
Narrated by: Angie Hickman
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Summary

Art curator Jessamine Rhodes has left behind her gig at a prominent gallery in the city to open her own community art center in the small town of Rose Shore. She's all set to host an extravagant opening watercolors class and has even booked a famous artist to teach it. Gabriella Everhart brings along her priceless painting Tranquil to showcase as the centerpiece of the event.

The opening class is just wrapping up when suddenly Tranquil disappears before Jessamine's eyes. Next, the lights of the art center flicker out and leave the crowd in complete darkness as a scream pierces the air. To her horror, Jessamine's flashlight reveals that prestigious art collector Victor Carlisle has been murdered, and now her dreams are as shattered as the champagne glass found near the scene.

Determined to save her now teetering reputation, Jessamine sets out to search for answers and the missing painting on her own. She has invested everything into her art center and is too anxious to step back and do nothing. Along the way, she teams up with a handsome paramedic who seems to have his own reasons for wanting justice for Victor's tragedy.

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what is it with the tea? tea tea and more probably very expensive tea. all problems solved with tea. topped with a heroine with very few functioning brain cells. sorry will not listen to more Holly Yew. be good if she listens or reads some good examples of cosy crime mysteries by British writers.

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I had hoped there would be more narrative about art alongside the crimes. The characters didn’t seem fully realised. The narration was also largely poor on accents and voices, sometimes really bizarre. As a result I couldn’t picture most of the characters in my head. While the initial premise of a sought-after painting with various competing potential buyers being stolen from a show could have worked, what followed was implausible to the point of messiness. The artist’s sister, in love with her fiancé, accidentally kills 2 people, then turns fully murderous, but she tried to return the $10,000 painting she stole to the gallery because she was in over her head? Not for me.

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