Good Day! Rose Pressey is a USA Today bestselling author who enjoys writing quirky and fun novels with a paranormal twist. When she is not writing, Rose likes to eat cupcakes with sprinkles, read, listening to 50s music and spending time with her family. She lives in Kentucky with her husband, son and three sassy Chihuahuas. You find a list of her books here on Amazon*. Would you like one of her books for free? Click here. Join her Facebook page for fun and prizes.
Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece by Rose Pressey is the debut of A Haunted Craft Fair Mystery series. Celeste Cabot along with her Chihuahua, Van Gogh
are at the Summer Arts & Craft Fair in her hometown of Gatlinburg,
Tennessee. Celeste wishes to make a
living selling her art and she is going to travel around the country to art
fairs with her pink and white Shasta trailer.
Evan Wright is the organizer of the event who turns out to be a blowhard
who likes to nitpick. Celeste is shocked
when she stumbles over his body that night with a type of knife protruding from
his neck. Celeste finds herself on
Detective Pierce Meyer’s suspect list, so she sets out to prove her
innocence. As if Celeste does not have
enough going on, a customer returns a painting declaring it is haunted. Another vendor points out the hidden images
in Celeste’s artwork which baffles Celeste and then a ghost pays her a
visit. Celeste is not sure what is going
on, but the friendly ghost is happy to help her solve Evan’s murder. Can Celeste find the culprit before the
killer strikes again?
Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece
is a charming new cozy mystery with intriguing paranormal elements. The story contains Rose Pressey’s conversational
writing style which makes the story easy to read. There is humor sprinkled throughout that will
have you giggling. Celeste Cabot loves
the color as we can tell from her adorable trailer. She wants to succeed as an artist and Celeste’s
bumbling family has helped her get ready.
Celeste has a patient mother, a father who means well (creates more
chaos than a two year old) and two blundering big brothers. Thank goodness she has her best friend,
Sammie Sutton. After a customer returns
a painting claiming the piece is haunted.
Celeste figures the client was a loony until a nearby vendor wearing
glasses notices images hidden within all of her creations. Then she begins hearing a woman’s voice and that
night the ghost appears from the painting in Celeste’s trailer. Celeste wonders if those rumors about her
grandmother are true. The mystery was
straightforward with a limited suspect list.
Celeste begins nosing around the craft fair digging up information on
her fellow vendors. She gets help from
her friendly spirit. The secondary
mystery revolves around the ghost who appeared from the painting. There are travel trailer tips at the
beginning of each chapter that are amusing.
There are two lines that I enjoyed from Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece. The first is you are “as useful as a pogo
stick in quicksand”. The second line I
liked was “Chihuahuas might be small, but they always want to protect the
people they love”. I thought that was
sweet. There are two romantic interests
for Celeste. At the end of the book, I
had a couple of unanswered questions especially regarding Celeste’s newfound
abilities and her ghostly friend. Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece is a witty cozy mystery with peculiar paintings, an
animated apparition, a caring Chihuahua, a dead dictator, and an active artist.
Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece can be picked up at Amazon* (Amazon UK). The next A Haunted Craft Fair Mystery is Murder Can Confuse Your Chihuahua which is available for pre-order. It will be out on April 28, 2020. Thank you for stopping by today and reading my review. I am featuring The Hope by Patricia Davids tomorrow. It is the second novel in The Amish of Cedar Cove series. I do hope you have a hopeful day (we all need hope in our lives). Take care and Happy Reading!
Kris
The Avid Reader
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