"Losing your job is not always the worst thing that can happen"

By: Nancy J. Parra

Genres: Mystery Cozy

Posted: September 28, 2014

Pepper just found out that she is out of a job. The company that she worked for has decided to down size. Pepper doesn't know what she is going to do with her life. Warren is Pepper's sister Felicity's boyfriend. Warren wants to propose to Felicity and asked Pepper to help him plan the best surprise for her.

Pepper jumps at the change, not only because this is her sister, but she has a lot of time on her hands. Pepper arrives at the airport to begin transforming a private plane into a time line of when Warren and Felicity's love began. Pepper takes a side trip into the ladies room. To her shock she finds a dead man in one of the stalls.

The surprise goes on without a hitch, except of course the dead body. Warren is so happy about how Pepper makes the plane into their romance that he suggests that she start a business. Warren offers to back her. Pepper wonders how an accountant can possible have that kind of money. To everyone's shock Warren is really a very rich man.

I have to say ENGAGED IN MURDER is a great book. Nancy Parra's first in a new series. Since this is the first one, I can't wait to read the next one. It has humor where you wouldn't think there would be. After all how can someone's death bring humor? I don't know how but Nancy Parra did it. Parra's description of how the main character Pepper goes about not only getting new business, but also helps solve a murder is clever and fun.

The one part I found quite funny is that Pepper didn't think her life would go on after losing her job. ENGAGED IN MURDER is a great start to a new series, and I can't wait for the next one.

Book Summary

There’s no planning for murder…

Event planner Pepper Pomeroy is making the most of her current unemployment by arranging a surprise for her sister, Felicity. Warren, Felicity’s boyfriend, plans to lure his lovely lady into a private jet, propose, and whisk her away on a romantic vacation. He just needs Pepper to handle all the fine details in order to make it the perfect proposal—and it is. Everything goes so well when Warren pops the question that he suggests Pepper do this sort of thing professionally.

But before she can get her new business off the ground, there are some disturbing questions. Like who’s the dead guy Pepper finds in the ladies’ room of the jet hangar? Is it possible Felicity’s high-flying fiancé has been hiding more than the engagement ring? Pepper’s not married to the idea of having a criminal in the family, so in order to protect her sister, she takes off in pursuit of a killer…

Engaged In Murder by Nancy J. Parra

Engaged In Murder

by: Nancy J. Parra

Perfect Proposals Mystery #1

Berkley
June 1, 2014
On Sale: June 3, 2014
Featuring: Pepper Pomeroy
288 pages
ISBN: 0425270351
EAN: 9780425270356
Kindle: B00EOARZC8
Paperback / e-Book

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