Design on a Crime by Ginny Aiken
Review by Daisy
Haley is a newly qualified interior designer about to get her new business off to a flying start when disaster strikes... She has to work through a lot of history in her small town to clear her name of murder.
This book seemed, from the blurb and cover, to be a light-hearted twist on the murder mystery genre. Interior designer accused of murdering her best friend fights to clear her name and solve the crime. Haley has had a troubled past and does not expect almost everyone else in town to have so many skeletons in their closets... It is well-written although, on a technical note, the underlining of certain sections in the Kindle version distracts from the story itself.
This was an enjoyable story and the characters were very well depicted. Gillian Aiken's heroine is very loveable and, like most of us, has bad hair days. The thing that I found most difficult to deal with was the very overt religion within the story. Yes, Haley's father is a vicar and, as such, you do expect there to be some mention of his faith - I feel it is overplayed in the story and Haley's path to the truth loses some of its vitality with this.
Nonetheless, an enjoyable light read.
Haley is a newly qualified interior designer about to get her new business off to a flying start when disaster strikes... She has to work through a lot of history in her small town to clear her name of murder.
This book seemed, from the blurb and cover, to be a light-hearted twist on the murder mystery genre. Interior designer accused of murdering her best friend fights to clear her name and solve the crime. Haley has had a troubled past and does not expect almost everyone else in town to have so many skeletons in their closets... It is well-written although, on a technical note, the underlining of certain sections in the Kindle version distracts from the story itself.
This was an enjoyable story and the characters were very well depicted. Gillian Aiken's heroine is very loveable and, like most of us, has bad hair days. The thing that I found most difficult to deal with was the very overt religion within the story. Yes, Haley's father is a vicar and, as such, you do expect there to be some mention of his faith - I feel it is overplayed in the story and Haley's path to the truth loses some of its vitality with this.
Nonetheless, an enjoyable light read.
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Pages 272Published
01/09/2005 Publisher Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group ISBN 9780800730444 |
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