UNDERCOVER BABYMOON
Fiction, Cozy Mystery
4****
Blurb: Most mothers-to-be spend their pregnancy leafing through baby names and shopping for nursery furniture. Minka Avery spends hers trying to hunt down a murderer on the open seas. Minka’s promotion to Orlando PD’s homicide department has some bumps at first, including her growing baby bump. Just as she and her partner begin to hit their stride, Logan Baris’s suspicious death baffles them. The investigation leads the detectives to believe he had a hand in a shady operation, but the cruise ship worker’s troubles seem to voyage into the ocean blues with him. After they meet up with some dead ends on land, Minka convinces her partner and his wife to join her and her husband to embark on a covert investigation on the ship. Will they be able to uncover whatever scheme is underway on the vessel? Or will the choppy waves of personal drama make it run ashore?
THOUGHTS: This was a fun read. It’s #4 in the series, but you don’t *have* to have read the ones that came before – though I suggest you do. It will really help you understand more. But even without the first three, this was still an enjoyable read. Minka Avery is a homicide detective. She is pregnant and deaf – though she wears a cochlear implant. And her cop partner is her brother-in-law. I loved the way she turns off her implant when she doesn’t want to hear anything and uses sign language to her advantage when she doesn’t want others to know what she and her partner are talking about. Going undercover on a cruise ship with her partner, his wife, and her husband is the only way they can keep and eye on the suspects, but it does cause complications, especially with her pregnancy. Not enough though to keep them from success.
Recommended – suggest you get the entire series. It’s worth it.
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