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WRDF Review of Lethal Lasagna By Rhonda Gibson

Title: Lethal Lasagna

Author: Rhonda Gibson

White Rose Publishing

Inspirational White Rose

Rating: Sweet Page Count: 240

ISBN: 1-60154-632-7

Digital Price: 6.00

Blurb:

When Claire Parker’s best friend Mitzi is found dead, and Claire turns out to be the prime suspect, she takes matters into her own hands to find the murderer. Tracing Mitzi's steps, Claire meets new friends and a handsome man who may turn out to be the love of her life or Mitzi's murderer.

As the evidence piles up, Claire discovers the murderer is willing to strike again.

Can she find the killer before she becomes the next victim?

Review

This story, although about a cold-hearted murder, was very sweet. Claire Parker is a sweet, innocent retired woman, who seemed to be enjoying life as a widow, when her friend, Mitzi; who appeared to be nicer than home-made apple pie, was poisoned by lasagna for no apparent reason than what seems to be her abundance of niceness. Claire is drawn into sleuthing when she appears to be the main suspect, so determined to clear her name and find the real killer of her best friend (about whom she appears to know very little). She jumps into her friend's life as she gets to know Mitzi posthumously, with many surprises for Claire along the way!

The story moved along at a nice pace with compelling plot and nicely engaging dialogue. Brandon, the love-interest, was a little over-sensitive and protective towards a complete stranger; Claire, when the rest of his panting classroom of love-struck students is left in the dust for this new amateur-sleuth. For church groups, the other social circles she joins, the ladies seem to be cut-throat competitors on a different level, and a little incongruous for their setting. While painting a colorful landscape of picket fences and flowering gardens, dog walks and every item of clothing Claire wore, and morsel of food she ate, we are never given a good description of the heroine; except the turmoil she felt emotionally about falling in love after passing the big five Oh, which made her sound like she had one foot in the grave.

Nice twists and turns of plot, interspersed with prayer and visits to church, with an implausible murder motive involving a seriously deranged family. The super-sweet ending was a little too fairy-tale-like, but gives readers a moist moment to contemplate the delights of true romance at an adult age. Definitely effortless escapism from the humdrum of reality, and a page-turner for the murder mystery plot between tea and cakes at the church socials.

Reviewed by Sally Vanessa Hearne

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