Death in Daytime by Eileen Davidson

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Alexis Peterson is the star of the popular daytime drama hit “The Yearning Tide”, but her head writer, Marcy Blanchard, has old issues with Alexis and is determined to write the actress off the show.

After a particularly nasty brawl between Alexis and Marcy, the writer is found dead - killed by her own Emmy award. The investigation turns bitter when most of Alexis’ co-workers tell the police they believe she could have committed the murder. Homicide detective, Frank Jakes, is immediately convinced of her guilt, while his partner tends to confuse Alexis with her TV alter-ego and is sure she’s innocent.

Alexis takes matters into her own hands. She has to prove her innocence for her own sake as well as for the sake of her beloved three-year old daughter, Sarah. Alexis’ first husband walked out on them, taking all her money, leaving her as a single mother with a demanding career. Alexis’ boyfriend, Paul, is a forensic expert who consults on another TV show, but she insists on handling her personal investigation on her own, which leaves hurt feelings between Alexis and Paul. It, also, doesn’t help their relationship when Alexis finds herself attracted to Detective Jakes, who wants nothing more than to put Alexis behind bars.

Eileen Davidson has been a major daytime drama star for years. I used to watch her on Days of Our Lives where she played devious Kristin Blake. She was amazing in that role and now it looks as if she has added another career to her already impressive resume. The author takes us behind the scenes of a daytime drama, who better to do that than an actress who has spent so many years working in the daytime drama arena?

I found the writing style to be fast-paced, light, and witty. Her story took so many twists and turns. She kept me on my toes until the end. I already began reading the second book in her “A Soap Opera Mystery” series.

For reading challenge: Cozy Mystery

Sunday Salon - June Wrap Up!

I finally put together my reads for June. I did fairly well. Here's what I read...

The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
Confessions of A Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (audio)
A Weaver Wedding by Allison Leigh
Deadly Exchange by Geoffrey M. Gluckman
Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts
A Worthy Legacy by Tomi Akinyanmi (review and blog tour to start on July 14th)
Summer Blowout by Claire Cook (audio)

That's 8 books for the month. That seems to be the average for me. All were good. In enjoyed all of them.

This week I finished Holly's Inbox. I finished it in July, so that's the beginning of next month's book count. Now I'm reading Death in Daytime by Eileen Davidson. This is a good one. It's been awhile since I read a cozy.

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Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham

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Genre: Chick Lit

This is the story of Holly Denham. Trying to get over a bad marriage, divorce, and a career change, Holly takes a job at Huerst and Wright as a receptionist. Her only previous experience in this type of position is a two week stint at a hotel, but her current employer does not know this. They think she’s an experienced receptionist, but soon learn otherwise.

The head receptionist, Trisha, takes Holly under her wing and Holly finds herself thriving in her new job. One of the most handsome vice presidents asks her out, Holly accepts the invitation and they began a hot, torrid, secret love affair. Or at least they think it’s secret. With all the office gossip going around, can anything ever be kept a secret?

Holly is surrounded by good friends, a wacky family, and even a few enemies. Her life is never dull, but trying to juggle all these people is not easy – especially with the constant threat that her job is on the line, backstabbing “friends”, and a grandmother who fills her email with spam for online dating services and cheap airline flight advertisements.

“Holly’s Inbox” is a cut look into the everyday life of Holly Denham. The entire book is written in email format. Reading through Holly’s emails is a very clever way to get to know and fall in love with a character. As each day passed, I felt as if I knew each character a little more. I would love to see a sequel of this book. The best way to describe this book is that it’s a bit different, fun and not to be read in public (you’ll find yourself laughing out loud and people will wonder what’s wrong with you).

If you’d like to get a taste of the book, check out the website www.hollysinbox.com

I absolutely have to give this book the “Socrates’ Book Reviews Blog Great Book Alert” medal.

For reading challenge: Chick Lit

Booking through Thursday - Celebrity Memoirs

This week's question...

Do you read celebrity memoirs? Which ones have you read or do you want to read? Which nonexistent celebrity memoirs would you like to see?

My answer...

I do read them, although not on a regular basis. If I hear about something that might interest me, I'll read it. I've read Maureen McCormick's (The Brady Bunch) and William Shatner's. They were both interesting. I also read a couple of books that Joe Torre (ex-Yankee manager, now Dodger manager) wrote. I'd like to read the book Valerie Bertinelli wrote, but I can't say that I'm anxious to read it. I could have taken it out of the library by now, but fiction is more my thing and none of the memoirs out there really interest me that much right now.

I can't think of any nonexistent celebrity memoirs I'd like to read. I'm sure there will be a ton of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson books coming out in the near future. Some of those might be interesting, but we'll see. It's not really on my radar right now.

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Cover Attraction - Beach Covers

I've never participated in memes before, but this one looks fun. It's hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page

Right now, since our weather has turned out to be beautiful, I'm in a summer mode. My favorite covers this week all have to do with summer.

Tuesday Thingers - Do You Have Glue?

Welcome to another week of Tuesday Thingers! We always love to hear from regular participants as well as new people.

This week we are exploring something totally different and un-Library Thing - we're looking at Glue! I first heard about Get Glue when a bloggy friend won a Kindle 2 from one of their contests! The topic then came up again at the recent Seattle blogger get-together. SO. . . I decided that maybe this whole Glue thing deserved a little attention.

What is Get Glue?

From their Website:

Developed by AdaptiveBlue, Glue enables you to connect with your friends on the web around the things you visit online. Glue is powered by semantic recognition technology that automatically identifies books, music, movies, wines, stocks, movie stars, recording artists, and more. Glue works hard to make it easy for you to find out what your friends think about things you're visiting online.

SO . . . on top of helping you find great books, movies, etc, you can also follow Get Glue on Twitter and play their games to win great weekly prizes. :) If you read some of their recent posts, you will probably find some familiar names winning some of those prizes!

Questions: Have you gotten Glue yet? If so, how do you like it? Do you follow Glue Genie on Twitter? Won anything in their quizzes?

My answer....I heard of Glue, but I never checked it out before. I just went over to their website and it looks interesting, but I'm afraid I'll get addicted. LOL I'm online way too much as it is. Although I Twitter, I don't even do that very often. I prefer spending any online time I have blogging. Actually, I should be spending all my time reading...my TBR is growing and I've become addicted to online games now. So, I doubt I'll be joining Glue - there's just not enough hours in a day.


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