The Lush Life

By: Peggy A. Edelheit

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

VINE VOICE: "A really good mystery." VINE VOICE: "A fun quick read." "Expect the unexpected, expect to laugh out loud, to see returning "bad guys" in this newest series installment." "An author so excellent and true to her brand of crime novels." “Edelheit’s style is once again engaging, fast-paced in The Lush Life." "Great mystery!" After selling their art gallery to someone else, Clay learns his friends, Alicia & Chris Worth are thinking of leaving New Hope, and taking a month's trip to Europe to collect some personal art. Clay is considering buying their big stone house.

“A whole lot of hilarious,” soon begins when Clay is suddenly called away on some undercover detective case, Clay promises them Sam would babysit their house, while they are gone. As an incentive, they offered Sam a cash bonus and a chance to live the lush life to sway her decision. “The author, Edelheit, strategically uses gossip, rumors, and false accusations in her dialogue to increase suspicion and suspense.”

Sam is left with one big question would Sam survive it? “In this team-based mystery novel, with instantly lovable, quirky characters,” Sam soon finds herself left alone with the ladies to babysit the big house until Clay gets back, a fact she reconciles is likely not that bad a deal when she considers it how luxurious a lifestyle she’d be living.

“With the right balance, with hilarious character and twisted mystery,” Scarlett O’Hara and Bret Butler, characters from novels in the house’s elaborate and overflowing library begin to turn up at the front door, along with her old friend, Mona, who seems to be engaged again, while suspecting that she is likely up to something and that something is a whole lotta no good!

“Lush life or untimely death?” What is going on? Is the expansive library Clay is about to inherit from the former owners the magnet? Though the characters in the library are fictional, her surprise visitors are quite real. And when Sam is shoved down a set of stairs, poisoned, and shot at, she suspects the danger to be just as real, too real to ignore. Why is everyone so interested in the library? “Expect the unexpected, expect to laugh out loud (a lot) and expect to see returning “bad guys” in this newest installment in the series.” “A mystery that will make you laugh until the last page.”