"As the top left corner [of the pirate ship shaped plywood] came toward me, I steadied it and walked a couple steps back. "Yeeee!" I screamed and sat down in the mud, hands splayed at my side. It was a horrible place to sit, as I could stare into xxx's dead eyes."
This is the fourth book in the Jolie Gentil series. Someone is breaking into vacant, for-sale houses and Jolie is trying to figure out what is going on while getting ready for the upcoming fundraising event she is in charge of organizing. Someone dies and she is blamed for it. The break-in's end but other things go wrong for Jolie while she is trying to figure out who has framed her.
The beginning quarter of this book is very slow moving. At this point the pace gets faster as we begin to figure out what everything prior has meant. We do not know the actions of other characters and have to wait for them to tell Jolie about thibgs since the book is written in the first person from Julie's perspective. Our author does a good job of describing her characters and we get a feel for everyone's emotions but it takes some time to get this feeling. The book ended with the feeling of "thats it?" No surprise at all.
This is an interesting book and I would recommend it. This is not a christian book but Jolie makes some references to God and that she should give her problems to Him a couple times. Nothing even remotely explicit happens other than a reference to Jolie's aunt's boyfriend coming out of the house at a late hour and Jolie and her new boyfriend making out on the living room floor after a movie. 3 out of 5 stars. It will be interesting to see what happens with Jolie next.
From the back cover:
Someone is breaking into the houses Jolie appraises. When she realizes a new face in town is leading high school kids into trouble in those houses, Jolie's mad and lets him know it. Hayden offers to help her mind her own business, and a lot of people at the Talk Like a Pirate Day fundraiser for the food pantry hear her give him what for.
A hurricane's on the way to disrupt Talk Like a Pirate Day. When a corpse turns up under the pirate ship the next day, Jolie's looking like a suspect.
Soon she has less work. Who wants a possible murder suspect appraising their house? Scoobie's pirate limericks can't solve a crime, so Jolie and her sometimes buddy local reporter George Winters look for the murderer and try to figure out who's trying to frame Jolie. They need to stay ahead of whoever's mad at her and off the radar of the local police who tell Jolie -- for the hundredth time -- to butt out. All this and Jolie has to deal with Aunt Madge's blossoming love life. And what about her own?
For a cozy mystery with a dose of humor and a touch of romance, join Jolie and friends in Ocean Alley.
A hurricane's on the way to disrupt Talk Like a Pirate Day. When a corpse turns up under the pirate ship the next day, Jolie's looking like a suspect.
Soon she has less work. Who wants a possible murder suspect appraising their house? Scoobie's pirate limericks can't solve a crime, so Jolie and her sometimes buddy local reporter George Winters look for the murderer and try to figure out who's trying to frame Jolie. They need to stay ahead of whoever's mad at her and off the radar of the local police who tell Jolie -- for the hundredth time -- to butt out. All this and Jolie has to deal with Aunt Madge's blossoming love life. And what about her own?
For a cozy mystery with a dose of humor and a touch of romance, join Jolie and friends in Ocean Alley.
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