Author: Lida Sideris
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Date of publication: September 30, 2015
Watch out Southern California !
There’s a new entertainment attorney in town and she’s got game. Only problem
is, it’s not the one she should be playing. Corrie Locke belongs behind a desk,
not behind a Glock. She should be taking VIP calls, not nosing around a
questionable suicide. Instead, she’s hot on the trail of a murderer.
Luckily, she’s the daughter of a late, great private eye and
she’s inherited his love of sleuthing…and illegal weaponry. It doesn’t help
matters that her gene for caution is a recessive one. Corrie finds herself in
the center of a murder case, unearthing suspects in shocking places. With a
cold-blooded killer on the loose, Corrie will have to up her game, or die
trying.
I had high hopes for Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters. From the synopsis, it looked to be an amusing mystery with a sassy heroine. The basic premise is that Corrie is a lawyer who used to work with her father in his PI business. Something happened and now she is starting a new job with a small movie production company as an internal lawyer. The first day on the job, she finds out two employees have died withing weeks of each other. One of the friends of the first guy wants her to prove he didn't commit suicide.
For me, this ended up being a DNF. I stopped at about 30% of the way in. While I think the story had a lot of potential, it just didn't do it for me. I know it was supposed to be a humorous mystery with crazy characters, but it was almost too crazy. It seemed like every character was weird and trying for laughs. I kept feeling like I was missing things in certain scenes. For instance, the scene where Corrie goes to the bar with her coworkers for a drink. The scene just felt unfinished and kind of made no sense to me. I like humor in my books, but I don't like to be confused.
The book has received great reviews from others on the tour, so check out what they are saying in the list below. It just wasn't for me.
For me, this ended up being a DNF. I stopped at about 30% of the way in. While I think the story had a lot of potential, it just didn't do it for me. I know it was supposed to be a humorous mystery with crazy characters, but it was almost too crazy. It seemed like every character was weird and trying for laughs. I kept feeling like I was missing things in certain scenes. For instance, the scene where Corrie goes to the bar with her coworkers for a drink. The scene just felt unfinished and kind of made no sense to me. I like humor in my books, but I don't like to be confused.
The book has received great reviews from others on the tour, so check out what they are saying in the list below. It just wasn't for me.
About Lida Sideris
Like her heroine, Corrie Locke, Lida Sideris hails from Southern California and worked as an entertainment
attorney for a film studio. She has written numerous magazine and newspaper
articles, a poem or two and a teleplay. She shares her home with her family and
an assortment of dogs and chickens. She was the recipient of the 2014 Helen
McCloy/Mystery Writers of America scholarship for mystery writing. Murder
and Other Unnatural Disasters is her first novel.
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Thursday, October 15th: Bibliotica
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Wednesday, October 28th: Buried Under Books
Friday, October 30th: Queen of All She Reads
Tuesday, November 3rd: Worth Getting in Bed For
Sorry to hear this one didn't work for you. I guess that balance of mystery and humor is difficult to achieve. It makes me appreciate those authors who do it so effortlessly.
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