Spotlight: Susie Black

Mermaid Swimwear CEO Butch Oldham was an equal opportunity scoundrel who screwed anyone and everyone in his wake. So, the question wasn’t who wanted the bastard dead. The question was, who didn’t? After Mermaid sales exec Holly Schlivnik finds colleague Queenie Levine standing over Oldham’s battered corpse nailed to a fabric cutting table with a big honkin’ pair of cutting shears plunged deep into his chest, the cops soon recover Queenie’s hidden blood-soaked sweater, discover her stormy relationship with the victim, and her public threats to make Butch pay for destroying Mermaid by stealing it blind. When Queenie is arrested for Butch’s murder, Holly jumps into action to flesh out the real killer. But the trail has more twists and turns than a slinky, and nothing turns out the way the wise-cracking, irreverent amateur sleuth thinks it will as she tangles with a clever killer hellbent for revenge.

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ISBN NUMBERS:

PAPERBACK ISBN #: 978-1-5092-4845-2

DIGITAL ISBN #: 978-1-5092-4846-9

Named Best US Author of the Year by N. N. Lights Book Heaven, award-winning cozy mystery author Susie Black was born in the Big Apple but now calls sunny Southern California home. Like the protagonist in her Holly Swimsuit Mystery Series, Susie is a successful apparel sales executive. Susie began telling stories as soon as she learned to talk. Now she’s telling all the stories from her garment industry experiences in humorous mysteries.

She reads, writes, and speaks Spanish, albeit with an accent that sounds like Mildred from Michigan went on a Mexican vacation and is trying to fit in with the locals. Since life without pizza and ice cream as her core food groups wouldn’t be worth living, she’s a dedicated walker to keep her girlish figure. A voracious reader, she’s also an avid stamp collector. Susie lives with a highly intelligent man and has one incredibly brainy but smart-aleck adult son who inexplicably blames his sarcasm on an inherited genetic defect.

Looking for more? Contact Susie at:

Website: www.authorsusieblack.com

E-mail: mysteries_@authorsusieblack.com

REVIEW:

4****

Thoughts: Holly Schlivnik is at it again. When her friend Queenie is accused of murdering Mermaid Swimwear CEO Butch Oldham, there’s nothing Holly can do but help her out. Which she does. There are so many suspects that they have to go through. Unfortunately, they do discover who the killer is…much to their detriment.

What I liked: The author’s usual humor is evident in this fourth book in the series. You don’t need to have rad the previous ones to know what’s going on in this one, but it might help to set the background. I love the coroner’s nickname (Snip) and how she got it from Holly. I also enjoyed the ending and Holly’s new investment. Plus Holly and her bevy of men coming (or not coming) to her rescue is cute.

What I didn’t like: Very little. It’s a good story with a satisfying ending.

Recommendation: Recommended.

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