4 Stars from me
Having been so enraptured by The Mysterious Double Death of Honey Black I was delighted to be able to slip back in time with our lead character Lily – deep into the 1940s where Lily is determined to save the life of Louis ex-girlfriend.
This one must have been a bit of a challenge given that, a) it’s Louis ex-girlfriend, and b) she hates Lily!
I really felt for Lily having to try and re-ingratiate herself with Louis and Tilda having – from their POV at least – simply upped and left without so much as a by your leave. So now dropping back into their lives with no tangible explanation available to her, Lily desperately needs the support of her friends if she is to be able to save the unappreciative Evelyn.
The author brings 1940s Las Vegas to life in a way they absolutely captivated me. She has a way of beautifully capturing the authenticity of the time, I felt truly immersed and I am quite honoured to be a part of the blog tour for this and the others in the series.
My thanks to the author and Zooloos Book Tours for my place on this tour and in the extravaganza of all things Lisa Hall!
If this sounds like your kind of thing, don’t forget to check in on the others in the series:
The Mysterious Double Death of Honey Black by Lisa Hall
Blurb: Murder and scandal in the heat of 1950s Las Vegas: can Lily Jones stop a murder that happened before she was born?
Lily Jones can’t forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the friends she made there – especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection.
Back in 2020, life isn’t going so well for her and Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis’ ex-girlfriend, is brutally murdered in 1953.
She is compelled to go back to the 1950s and try to save Evelyn’s life, but this time it isn’t just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but The Mob as she finds herself in the seedy glamour of Vegas and learns that Evelyn’s future depends upon her first solving the murder of a Vegas showgirl.
Thankfully she has Louis and his sister, Tilda, to help her, but her own life is in danger as she tries to find the killer and change Evelyn’s fate.
What will she risk to save a life?
