Costume shop owner Margo Tamblyn faces a deadly conspiracy when a small-town festival turns into big-time trouble.It’s no secret around Proper City, Nevada, that the Sagebrush Festival, the town’s annual family-friendly event, is the place to be. This year’s theme of board games has everything from Conspiracy to Clue. Margo Tamblyn’s costume shop, Disguise DeLimit, has been tasked with providing … tasked with providing costumes for the festival headliner, the Domino Divas. But on the night of the performance, one fallen Domino threatens to bring down the whole show when head dancer Ronnie Cass is found in her dressing room, unmasked, unprepared, and very, very dead.
As the police investigate, Margo learns that Don Digby, her father’s best friend, is the prime suspect, tied to the victim by an unsolved robbery connected to Proper City’s past. As conspiracies abound and theories are debunked, Margo seeks to unmask the real killer before her dad’s buddy winds up in a costume made with prison stripes.
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Another great book by Ms. Vallere.
Fantastic!!!!!
It’s time for the annual Sagebrush Festival, and this year, the theme is board games, inspired by the opening act, the Domino Divas. This local group is reuniting after something broke them up 50 years ago. But the reunion isn’t going that well. After a bad rehearsal, group member Ronnie Cass doesn’t show up for their first performance. That’s when costume shop owner Margo Tamblyn finds Ronnie dead in her trailer. Did her murder have anything to do with what broke the group up 50 years ago?
As Margo investigates, she finds a bit of a conspiracy surrounding this murder, which just adds to the fun of the mystery. A couple of things get glossed over in the climax, but for the most part, everything is wrapped up well. I love this setting, a town that goes all out for every occasion, including throwing costume parties. And the characters are fantastic, just like they are in the earlier books in the series.
Soot, the cat is the confidant of Margo Tamblyn.
Margo is the co-owner of Disguise DeLimit costume
shop with her father. She lives above the shop in
Proper City, Nevada.
It is Proper City’s Sagebrush Festival time. Margo
is helping both Ebony, the festival Manager and
Bobbie, who is her best friend, running a booth
both selling and giving away Teddy Bears.
Margo has made costumes for the big attraction
of the Festival….the Domino Divas. This dance
group broke up 50 some years ago because of then
scandal now all in their sixties they are reuniting
for the Festival.
That is until Margo finds one of the Divas dead in the
Diva’s trailer.
Murder, an robbery 50 years ago, dark secrets, affairs,
an unexpected relative, a Festival with a Game board
theme with costumes, a food, teddy bears, dancing ,
A birthday bash and danger in disguise make this is
good read.
The characters are well defined, very realistic and very
interesting. The tension was thick with plenty of suspense
mixed with great chills, thrills with unexpected twists and
turns.
It was a page turner.
This is book # 3 in the Costume Shop Mystery series. It
can be read as a stand alone. This is first book I read in
the series and will be reading the rest.
A highly recommended humorous cozy read!!!
I volunteered to read Dressed to Confess. Thanks to the
author via Net Gallery for the opportunity. My opinion
is my own.
This the third book in the Costume Shop Mystery series. And it’s just as great as the first two. I enjoy reading about Margo, her Dad, Tak and the rest of the residents from Proper City, Nevada. The story is full of quirkiness, and the twists and turns in the plot keep you guessing until the very end. I didn’t figure it out until the end. There were more than a few times I found myself chuckling as I wound my way through the book. I love how Margo dresses in costumes from the shop, can just picture her, and how she talks things over with Soot the cat. Diane does a great job of filling you in on the people of Proper City, and past events, so you don’t have to have read the rest of the series. And if you haven’t, I would suggest you do because you’ll enjoy them.
I received this as an ARC copy, and this is my honest review.
“Dressed to Confess” earns 5/5 Dancing Diva Drama!
The town of Proper City, Nevada, is dressing up for the Sagebrush Festival, and everyone is getting into the game-themed festivities. Margo Tamblyn, co-owner of the local shop Disguise DeLimit, has been busy providing delightful costumes for the volunteers and the top act the “Domino Divas,” a dance troupe once the talk of the town. The group hadn’t performed since 1968, and their break-up curiously coincided with a local bank robbery. No one had been caught and the block of gold originally owned by prospector and town’s namesake Pete Proper was never recovered, but the rumors had the Double Ds somehow connected. They went their separate ways. The mayor asked them to reunite and perform at the festival, but emotions seem very high, including less than a stellar rehearsal, a slap in the face, and one of them dead in her trailer. Margo finds herself having to investigate since a ‘person of interest’ is found too close to home.
I am familiar with Diane Vallere’s Costume Shop Mystery series having read many 5-star reviews touting it as engaging and entertaining, and despite having book 1 “A Disguise to Die For,” I’ve not jumped in…until now! I had an opportunity to read book 3 “Dressed to Confess,” and I am thrilled: Game-themed festival? Cold case bank robbery? Dead ‘Domino Diva’? What a great story! There is more than enough information about the back story and character connections that I never felt out of the loop. The current events and close-to-home suspects entwined with an unsolved robbery make for a clever page turner experience ending with an “Oh, my!” solution. The characters are well developed, Margo is a delight to follow, and I enjoy the fun dynamic between Margo and her ‘conspiracy theorist’ dad. The setting of Proper, Nevada, and small town quirks, ins and outs of costuming, and issues with Margo’s dad’s conspiracy newspaper using the anagram “Spicy Acorns” play out in the background along with treating us to some easy-to-follow recipes for Spicy Acorn Treats, Spicy Acorn Salsa and Costume Ideas for a Conspiracy-themed Party (Secret Service Agent). So, invite you favorite “Men in Black” and enjoy this adventure! I highly recommend this book!