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About the Author

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Séries

Obras por Audrey Keown

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Agente
Annie Bomke

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Audrey Keown set her mystery series in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the place she calls home. She lost her heart to the city in the early days of its downtown revival, and its bridges, breweries, parks, and people are its mixtape back to her. For ten years Audrey wrote professionally for periodicals, sharpening her storytelling skills to cut into fiction writing. Now themes of redemption and connection to history always wriggle their way into her work. Like her impulsive protagonist in Murder at Hotel 1911, Audrey has battled anxiety and writes about mental illness in her fiction in hopes of helping lift the stigma.

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Wealthy Amelia Swain and get son Jeffrey book into the Hotel 1911. A hotel that is made to look from the 1911 era.
The chef is informed that she is allergic to shellfish. Soon she is found dead. So the main suspect is the chef, George, but Ivy Nichols, his friend and hotel receptionist knows him to be innocent so she investigates.
The story is told from her point of view and so we get all her thoughts which usually sounds like some teenager not an adult of 28.
For me there was too much about her mental struggles and Jung and not enough of a mystery.
This is a lightweight modern cozy mystery.
The blurb does not indicate that this is story set in modern times, unfortunately, as I find novice investigators revealing the truth before the dumb police irritating.
ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Vesper1931 | 3 outras críticas | Jul 29, 2021 |
Chattanooga-Tennessee, murder, murder-investigation, law-enforcement, family-dynamics, friendship, cozy-mystery, angst, historic-buildings*****

In my personal opinion, the author has really gotten it together this time! The main characters are more solid, the transitory ones more interesting (let me tell you about the naked grannies in the public pool who smoke weed in their room). The publisher's blurb is pretty good so there's no need to go over that again and spoilers are silly. The twin mysteries are: the murder of one of the guests/police management of the investigation, and Ivy's need to investigate her own family history. There is misdirection and red herrings as expected but sneakier this time (that's a good thing). This one I loved!
I requested and received a free temporary ebook copy from Crooked Lane Books via NetGalley. Thank you!
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jetangen4571 | Apr 5, 2021 |
Ivy Nichols is the night clerk at Hotel 1911. The hotel was once her family's home before all the money was lost. Since it was her mother's family and her mother disappeared when she was in Second Grade, Ivy is keeping her relationship to the hotel's former owners to herself. She would like to find out more about the family though since she believes that the mental illnesses that have plagued generations of her relatives had their start there. Ivy herself suffers from anxiety and panic attacks.

Ivy's best friend is the chef at the hotel. When he is accused of negligence for allowing seafood to contaminate the meal of a severely allergic guest who dies, Ivy is determined to clear her friend's name despite knowing nothing about being a detective.

As Ivy looks into the lives and relationships of the hotel guests, she find lots of suspects. The woman's son resents that his mother holds the purse strings and is stopping him from making what he sees as a great investment. Another guest was a school friend of the victim who wants to try to rekindle a relationship with her. Still another guest doesn't want the son's investment idea to be realized since it would totally ruin his plans for an adjacent property. Then there is the organic farmer who supplies vegetables to the hotel who would also be ruined if the son's plans are realized.

This was an interesting mystery with an interesting main character. It was nicely paced and the suspense built through the story.
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kmartin802 | 3 outras críticas | Aug 25, 2020 |
Esta crítica foi escrita pelo autor.
It's so funny that I can review my own book here! :) Of course I love it. I hope you do too, or at least that it entertains you for a short while.
 
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AudreyKeown | 3 outras críticas | May 14, 2020 |

Estatísticas

Obras
2
Membros
39
Popularidade
#376,657
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
5
ISBN
8