Brenda H. (booksinvt) -
A Whale of a Murder is the debut of the A Venus Bixby Mystery series set in Chatham Crossing, Massachusetts and featuring music store owner, Venus Bixby. Venus is preparing to celebrate her fiftieth birthday with a party at the Sofia Silva Whaling Museum and also serve as the Grand Marshal for the town's Fourth of July parade.
As Venus walks through the museum grounds to check on the party preparations she stumbles over the platform shoes 0f the museum gift shop manager, Margaret McGee. The woman is dead and a valuable artifact is missing.
Detective Oscar Donovan has his hands full of suspects and he thinks Venus might be one of them. Venus and her sister Sherrie create a Sisters' List of Suspects and begin their own investigation that ultimately ends in a reconstruction of the morning Maggie was found dead.
An interesting debut, but the characters take a little getting used to. Complicated relationships exist between Venus and pretty much everyone in her life. Nobody seems to give off warm and cozy vibes except for Venus' cats: Sonny and Cher. I'll give the second installment in the series a try now that the majority of Chatham Crossings backstory has been told.
As Venus walks through the museum grounds to check on the party preparations she stumbles over the platform shoes 0f the museum gift shop manager, Margaret McGee. The woman is dead and a valuable artifact is missing.
Detective Oscar Donovan has his hands full of suspects and he thinks Venus might be one of them. Venus and her sister Sherrie create a Sisters' List of Suspects and begin their own investigation that ultimately ends in a reconstruction of the morning Maggie was found dead.
An interesting debut, but the characters take a little getting used to. Complicated relationships exist between Venus and pretty much everyone in her life. Nobody seems to give off warm and cozy vibes except for Venus' cats: Sonny and Cher. I'll give the second installment in the series a try now that the majority of Chatham Crossings backstory has been told.
