Murder On The Bucket List. Tell me, don’t you love that title!
I sure do. And it was such a fun romp with these characters.
Come on in and enjoy my review.
And don’t forget to enter the giveaway to win your own print copy!
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Series: A Bucket List Mystery (Book 1)
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Midnight Ink (July 8, 2015)
ISBN-13: 978-0738745091
My Review
I love my cozies and am always looking for a new series and author.
This one was such a blast.
I loved these ladies and it was double fun because these characters are on the other side of 60 and 70 years old.
You wouldn’t know by the shenanigans they got into. Especially the skinny dipping. A few of them were all for getting it checked off their bucket lists. But a few were afraid to drop their robes and expose those bodies to view. They might all be good friends, but some things should remain unseen. It was funny how some hemmed and hawed and just plain stalled the disrobing.
I think several of them issued huge sighs of relief when, while checking the pool shed for chemicals, the door was opened and out plopped a dead guy.
Hey, that’s one that needs to be checked off a bucket list too. Solve a murder.
Whether they like it or not, all of the ladies are involved in this mess and the fun begins as they poke their little noses where they don’t belong.
I was reading the scene about the crime scene tour to my mother and we got the giggles. I’d try to read more, glance over at her, and we’d bust out laughing again. A whole lot of laughs in this book.
I felt like I knew these ladies. My mother and her friends are so much like them. I can only hope I’m that spry, determined, and nosy when I get their age.
More than one mystery here, lots of colorful, quirky characters, and a few things thrown in to spice it up, Murder On The Bucket List has everything I require in a fun cozy.
I’ll be following these ladies through this series. I wonder what mess they’ll stumble into next.
4 Stars
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Synopsis
The septuagenarian women of the Summer Ridge Bridge Club have gathered in secret late one July night to check skinny dipping off their bucket list. But as Francine observes, the jittery members seem more obsessed with body issues and elaborate preparations than actually stripping down and getting in the pool. A pungent smell emanating from the pool shed provides a perfect distraction. When a dead body flops out, it’s an answered prayer for Charlotte, since the first item on her list is to solve a murder.
Unfortunately for Charlotte and Francine, before they can discover who really killed the man, they must negotiate neighborhood tours of the crime scene, press coverage of their skinny dipping, an angry Homeowner’s Association, a disastrous appearance on Good Morning America, media offers sought by a hungry publicist, and a clever killer.
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About The Authors
Elizabeth Perona is the father/daughter writing team of Tony Perona and Liz Dombrosky. Tony is the author of the Nick Bertetto mystery series, the standalone thriller The Final Mayan Prophecy (with Paul Skorich), and co-editor and contributor to the anthologies Racing Can Be Murder and Hoosier Hoops & Hijinks. Tony is a member of Mystery Writers of America and has served the organization as a member of the Board of Directors and as Treasurer. He is also a member of Sisters-in-Crime.
Liz Dombrosky graduated from Ball State University in the Honors College with a degree in teaching. She is currently a stay-at-home mom. Murder on the Bucket List is her first novel.
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I have one print copy to giveaway.
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“Do you have a bucket list?”
Giveaway ends July 15th
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This sounds like a great book. Thank you for the chance.
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I had so many chuckles:)
Sounds like a great book. I do have a bucket list and am looking forward to doing the things on it. One is to visit Peru.
Peru sounds fantastic. I want to visit Rome
I do have a bucket list and one of the things on it is to travel. This book sounds great and I appreciate the chance to win a copy! Also, I think it’s wonderful that it is co-authored by a father-daughter team. woodrumbetty@gmail.com
I like that too. I’ve read a few where a parent and their child have co-authored.
This does sound like a fun book. Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
I personally don’t have a bucket list. Life is short and uncertain and I figure people should be living their lives as if it could all end at any time (which it could).
If there’s something I want to do before I die, I try to do it as soon as possible.
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That sounds right. I try to do some things but others will have to wait. Time is an issue both ways:)
No, I don’t have a bucket list, but I think it’s a good idea. Thanks for having the giveaway.
It’s never to late! I have a short one I’m adding to.
I do have a Bucket List, would like to go to Hawaii one more time & to spend a lot of time with my two Grandsons who are 2 & 6 in August.
Both sound wonderful! I have no grandchildren, yet!
Not a bucket list, per se, but I’ve tended to make lists of things on my birthday each year that I would like to accomplish by my /next/ birthday.
That’s a bucket list of sorts:)
Sounds like a fun one!
Oh yeah!
This does sound fun and I love the title! I don’t have a bucket list but it’s something I’ve thought about. I think if I had one it would be more travel related than action related. My email is katherine(dot)e(dot)pitts(at)gmail(dot)com. Great review!
I’d love to travel and not just out of the country:)
I only have a couple of things, but sure!
A couple so far! LOL
I don’t have a bucket list but I have always wanted to travel more.
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Thank you for the giveaway. 🙂
I think travel is on all of our lists!
I don’t have a bucket list but would love to travel and enjoy new locales.
Oh, so would I!
I don’t have a bucket list but a list of a few places that I really want to visit! Thanjs for the chance to win.
Rome and Scotland are on my list:)
I do not have a bucket list, but I would love to read this book—thanks for the chance to win a copy!
Mine isn’t big but I do add to it:)
I don’t know if you’d call it a bucket list but I’d like to travel before I go.
It seems most of have travel on our list:)
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No, I don’t have a bucket list, but maybe should.
Bucket list or wish list, I think we all have something:)
I don’t have an official bucket list, but there are definitely a few places I’d like to visit on a travel wish list of sorts! Thanks for the info on this new series! It looks like a lot of fun and I love the cover with all the ladies looking off in different directions.
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I love the cover too. Looks so natural and so fun. These ladies are such a hoot!
This book sounds like so much fun! I can just picture the scene at the pool. I love cozies with humor – not snarky humor, just cheerful humor – and it sounds like this book has plenty of that. And older heroines who are spunky – that sounds great!
As for a bucket list, I don’t really have a written-down list, but I have a mental list of things I’d really like to do someday. It changes, but there are some constants – return to England, Scotland, and Wales; go to New Zealand; fix up and declutter the house (that one is never-ending!); knit a sweater and a lace shawl; and travel generally. I should probably write it all down and pick some to do every year – I’m not getting any younger!