Reviewer: Mary Lignor
Title: Button Holed - 1st in the Button Box Mystery series
Author: Kylie Logan
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-24376-3
Release Date: September 2011
Genre/Sub-genre: Cozy Mystery
Year/Setting: Present/Chicago, IL
Overall Rating: 4.5
Sexual Content Rating: None
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: Moderate
Kylie's Website/Blog: None found (aka Casey Daniels) www.caseydaniels.com
Dear Readers,
This is the first book in a new series by Kylie Logan. The heroine, Josie Giancola, has recently opened an antique button shop in a brownstone in the Old Town section of Chicago. Josie has built a reputation and has become somewhat of an expert on antique buttons. She is very excited on this day as a Hollywood starlet, Kate Franciscus, has found out about her expertise and is coming to the shop to look for some antique buttons for her wedding gown. When Josie opens the shop on the day that Kate is coming to make her final decision she finds Kate is already there and has been stabbed with a button hook. When the police come in to start their investigation, Josie finds a button on the floor that Kate had been lying on. This button was unusual, made of something called boxwood and it was not part of Josie's inventory. Josie realizes that this button must belong to Kate's murderer.
Kate's fiancé is a real Prince, literally, Prince Roland to be exact. The Prince had discovered that Kate has not been faithful to him during their engagement but, doesn't want this information to become public as he believes that his father would probably disinherit him. The person who had an affair with Kate is the producer of the movie that she was shooting.
Estelle Marvin, who is a television personality, has a TV show that Kate had planned to be on and she had gone to a lot of trouble and expense to get Kate's segment of the program ready when Kate decides not to be on the show. In addition to the Prince and Estelle, Kate had three assistants that she treated very badly so, the suspects were piling up. Josie makes up her mind to investigate herself.
Certainly a very good first book in a series. Lots of action and humor thrown in together. First rate writing and plotting.
I will be looking for the next book in the series.
Mary
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