Book Review: Laina Turner’s Stilettos & Scoundrels

Presley Thurman may have lost her job, but maybe it’s a sign to go on to better things! Only she’ll have to endure her mother, go without Starbucks and decent shopping…oh, and solve a murder.
Presley Thurman may have lost her job, but maybe it’s a sign to go on to better things! Only she’ll have to endure her mother, go without Starbucks and decent shopping…oh, and solve a murder.
Meg helps run Caerphilly’s summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer and support Mr. Throckmorton’s long siege until they can find the secret of the town.
Josie Prescott has moved to New Hampshire to restore her reputation, and then her potential new client is found stabbed to death with Josie’s fingerprints everywhere.
Scotland Yard has disguised Miss Seeton as a high roller to get a police sketch of a mysterious crime boss. But she is soon playing a very dangerous game of big money and murder, and it is a sure bet that someone — perhaps Miss Seeton — is in mortal danger.
When a flood of perfectly faked banknotes hits the market, retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton, Scotland Yard’s famed ‘MissEss’, is chosen to investigate a respected Geneva bank. Somehow, the forger is also mixed up in the theft of valuable paintings, so it’s ‘set an artist to catch an artist’.
An unlikely detective, Miss Seeton goes undercover at the request of Scotland Yard to investigate some bewitching shenanigans after a sudden interest in the occult sweeps through Plummergen.
Retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles. Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and at every turn the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.
The Quilter’s Apprentice teaches deep lessons about family, friendship, and sisterhood, and about creating a life as you would a quilt: with time, love, and patience, piecing the miscellaneous and mismatched scraps into a beautiful whole.
Millionaire David Mintzer offers Clare Cosi an all-expenses-paid summer in the Hamptons training his staff. Until an employee turns up dead in David’s bathroom.
There’s trouble brewing when a customer is poisoned and a partner turns up dead, and Clare leaps in to investigate knowing that her employee is innocent.