Okay, the soap opera continues. Nora's parents are gone, lured away when she purposely left her credit card for them to steal. Michael has a nineteen-year-old daughter who has just contacted him. He was let out of prison early and he must stay a Blackbird farm and wear his monitor. The blackbird sisters have inherited an old mansion of an aunt?? who died. Most of the estate has been stolen and mysteriously (thanks to Michael) the place burned to the ground. Perhaps they will get insurance money. Emma is about two weeks from delivering and cannot make up her mind what to do with the baby, but it looks like she may let the father and his soon-to-be-wife raise him. Things are looking up for the Blackbird sisters. This book starts off with a somewhat large inheritance for Nora, Emma, and Libby. Their Aunt Madeline has just been killed in a natural disaster, volcano eruption, and has left her sprawling estate, Quintain, to the Blackbird girls. When they reach her mansion and hope to claim their prize and hopefully free themselves of some debt incurred by their frivolous parents, they find that they are not the only ones vying for this massive inheritance. Madeline’s stepson, Sutherland, has his eyes on the prize as well and lets the sisters know that he won’t let Quintain go without a fight. While exploring the estate, the girls notice that their Aunt Madeline might have been robbed while she was off gallivanting in Indonesia. Oh, and did I forget to mention that they found a dead body in the elevator?!I have religiously followed this series since I first discovered it when I was a teenager! I love Nora Blackbird and honestly I wish I could meet her and be her best friend. This book was no different than the rest of the series, and maybe it’s actually Nancy Martin that I need to meet. This is the eighth book and I am still just as content to sit and read these murder mysteries as I was when the first one released. Nora and her sisters are always up to some mischief, and they find trouble around every nook and cranny. I will always believe that Nora is the sensible one, and in this book she proves that even more. Her new husband has just been locked away in prison and with another mystery on her hands she perseveres. The mystery in this story is like the rest of them, fast-paced, interesting, and so hard to resist. I enjoyed learning more about the Blackbird family and meeting some more members of it. I wish Aunt Madeline hadn’t of died because she sounded like a fascinating and eccentric character. Nora really had a connection with her Aunt Madeline, and I enjoyed seeing Nora so emotionally invested in this murder mystery. The Blackbird sisters are still making me laugh and keeping me on my toes!***A copy of this book was provided to me by the publishers at Signet/NAL in exchange for my honest review***
Do You like book No Way To Kill A Lady (2012)?
Read it while reading Eric Larsen's book--light but not as good as previous books
—lrivera2mx
