Book Review: Lie of the Needle by Cate Price
It may have been a struggle, but I can say goodbye to this series and not feel any regret.
Less than three weeks have past since Daisy Buchanan solved her last murder and now with Thanksgiving barreling down the pike, photographer Alex Roos meets a gruesome death (especially for a crimozy) and her friend Cyril Mackey disappears. But, is Cyril still alive or is someone playing a game of cat and mouse with the antique notions store owner?
The Millbury Historical Society has come up with a great fundraiser by featuring some of the local guys in a revealing calendar which should bring in a fair amount of money, but after the last night of shooting, Daisy stops in to see her friend Stanley Borstein who’s suffering from dementia. He tells her that lucidly, “she is trying to kill me “ and then slips back into his own world.
After passing away hours later, Daisy finds it hard to believe that his wife could have killed him for his inheritance, but since Stanley is Jewish, no autopsy was performed and he is buried later that afternoon.
While her list of suspects continues to grow Daisy also uncovers a secret that church secretary Althea Gunn has been hiding.
With so many characters and subplots going on it’s very easy to find your mind wandering.
However, the series did have great potential but was laden with too many characters and sometimes long babbling chapters. Had it not been for these two flaws, I think it would have been a really nice and fun series.
Like many series before it, it seems as though the authors contract was not renewed for further installments, thus ending with future stories not coming to fruition.
