Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters
By Lida Sideris
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Release Date: September 11,
2015
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Format: eBook/Print
Length: 408 Pages (797KB)
ISBN: 978-1509202409
ASIN: B014BVSWTE
About the book:
Watch out Southern
California! There's a new entertainment attorney in town and she's got game.
Only problem is, it’s not the one she should be playing. Corrie Locke belongs
behind a desk, not behind a Glock. She should be taking VIP calls, not nosing
around a questionable suicide. Instead, she's hot on the trail of a murderer.
Luckily, she's the daughter
of a late, great private eye and she's inherited his love of sleuthing…and
illegal weaponry. It doesn't help matters that her gene for caution is a
recessive one. Corrie finds herself in the center of a murder case,
unearthing suspects in shocking places. With a cold-blooded killer on the
loose, Corrie will have to up her game, or die trying.
Praise
Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters is a delightful twisting maze complete with
Hollywood film production, murder and mayhem, sexy and quirky
characters and a smart lawyer who is trying to make sense of it
all. —Kimberley Troutte, New
York Times and USA Today bestselling author.
About Lida Sideris
Like her heroine, Corrie
Locke, Lida Sideris hails from Southern California and worked as an
entertainment attorney for a film studio. She has written numerous magazine and
newspaper articles, a poem or two and a teleplay. She shares her home with her
family and an assortment of dogs and chickens. She was the recipient of the
2014 Helen McCloy/Mystery Writers of America scholarship for mystery
writing.
Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters is
her first novel.
I have to admit I wasn’t sure what to expect
when I first started reading Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters by Lida
Sideris. A mystery with a lot of
comedy, more than a handful of zany characters and a lawyer who would rather be
a private investigator, Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters captured my attention from the very first page and
never let go. If you’re looking for
something different in the mystery department, you’re going to want to give
this book a try.
Twenty-six and finally starting a job that
promises to more than pay the rent. Corrie Locke is determined to put her crime
solving days behind her. A job as a
contract/entertainment lawyer might not be as exciting as working with her
late, great private eye father but it will make her mom happy. Only nothing at the office is as it seems and
Corrie soon finds herself being dragged into investigating the “suicidal” death
of a colleague, a missing – maybe kidnapped – cat case and an alleged “alien
abduction”. Luckily for her, she’s got
more crazy sidekicks than the Marx Brothers.
Ms.
Sideris does a good job developing the
characters in this story and I easily connected with Corrie and her situation
in life. Devastated over her father’s
death, Corrie is down to one parent and trying to keep her happy by taking a
job in a field she’s not really sure she wants to work in – she only went to
law school and passed the bar to make her parents happy. I also found her attachment to all sorts of
weapons, legal or not, quite useful. The
secondary characters are also well developed and very amusing. I especially liked ‘Veera”, the company’s
security guard who decided early on to be Corrie’s sidekick, whether Corrie
wanted her help or not.
With more than one mystery to solve, Corrie
gets herself into all sorts of crazy situations while trying to actually do her
paying job at the same time. Ms.
Sideris does a good job developing the main mystery and provides just
enough clues to keep the reading guessing without really giving anything
away. The side cases that Corrie gets
involved in provided a nice diversion too.
Will Corrie find her clients cat and
discover if her colleague really committed “suicide” or if he was
murdered? Will she solve the issue of
the alleged “alien abduction”? And will
she still have a job as a lawyer at the end of the day? You’ll have to read Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters
to find out. I enjoyed it and look
forward to reading more of this author’s work.
My Rating:
3.5 out of 5 Crowns
GIVEAWAY
Prize - 1 Copy of Murder and
Other Unnatural Disasters in either print or digital format (winner’s choice).
Entry – Leave a meaningful
comment for Lida to let her know you stopped by.
Rules:
- Must be 18 or Older (or have
your parent/guardian enter)
- Open to U.S. residents only
- Giveaway will run from
October 30, 2015 to November 6, 2015.
- Winner will be notified via
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will be chosen.
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