Death a Sketch

A Paint & Shine Mystery, Book 3

De: Cheryl Hollon

Narrado por: Courtney Patterson

In eastern Kentucky, Miranda Trent runs a unique tour company called Paint & Shine, but sometimes the peaceful mountains play host to murder . . .

Miranda's business—combining Appalachian adventure tours with art and a bit of moonshine—is the perfect place for an outdoor sporting goods company to hold an employee retreat. It'll be a challenge, but the money they're paying will definitely help with building her new distillery.

Miranda has lots of teamwork-fostering activities planned, from sketching classes to Southern cooking, but the executive running things prefers a more competitive spirit. In fact, after the workers are split into teams, they're told that only the winners will keep their jobs, and tensions begin to spike. Even after a participant is found dead, the contest continues—while Miranda starts drawing her own conclusions about the ambitious attendees. Now she just has to find the proof . . .

©2022 Cheryl Hollon (P)2022 Tantor

Characters and mysteries are good – overall timeline is weird

I’ve been enjoying the people and environment for the series. I’m having difficulty, however, with the timeline for the entire grouping of books. Either there are a whole heck of a lot of murders in a couple weeks, or the timeline doesn’t work. All three books seem to take place in autumn before Thanksgiving – about a month and a half to two months total. Sandy, the puppy, is said to be 10 weeks old in this book. The dog has appeared in the first two books as well and must be older than that – puppies aren’t weaned until six or seven weeks at the earliest. An injury in the previous book for one of the main characters isn’t even mentioned in this one. Missed details like this throw off the overall enjoyment of the story for me.

5 stars

This is an entertaining tertaining and well written cozy mystery with engaging characters and an entertaining plot.

Good story

This story had everything you want in a cozy mystery, it has the fun, suspense and love.

So many inconsistencies

These books read like someone’s rough draft. There are soo many inconsistencies in the details. A few inconsistencies can be overlooked but this series is overrun with them it takes away from an otherwise good story line.