Zara Romano sees dead people. New England’s best mortician, Zara and two of her older brothers own Romano Funeral Home in Salem, Massachusetts. Zara is a mingling of two nationalities, Irish and Italian. She’s Irish on the outside, complete with red hair, blue eyes and freckles, but she’s Italian on the inside, with a temper to match. The youngest sibling of seven and the only female, Zara loves … Zara loves her brothers but thinks they’re too bossy. Two of her brothers serve on the Salem Police Force, one is police chief and the other a detective. Zara’s two widowed nanas live next door. She can always rely on a home-cooked meal, unless her nanas are trolling funerals for new boyfriends.
Another bossy man in her life is Zara’s ex-boyfriend, Marcello Ponti. A sinfully gorgeous police detective, Marcello makes a habit of appearing on her doorstep unannounced even though they broke up two years earlier when he wanted to “date” other women. Zara refuses to be a member of the Marcello Dating Club. Good thing she has her beloved dog Smooches to keep her company. Thankfully, Smooches is with her the night she finds the mayor hanging from a tree at a local park. Definitely a homicide, the mayor’s blood was drained via two puncture wounds on his neck. When she discovers two more bodies in the same condition, Zara’s own investigative instincts kick in, and she searches for the link between the three victims.
Does Salem have a vampire in its midst or a serial killer with a fetish for fang marks? More importantly is Zara marked as the murderer’s next victim or is she merely flirting with death?
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Such a great read. The plot and storyline were very well done. I Could not put it down. Read in one day.
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Zara along with her brothers own and operate a funeral home. Zara is the mortician, she prefers to spend her time working on the dead and leaving her brothers to deal with the living. After finding the body of the mayor, drained of blood, hanging in a tree, Zara starts investigating. Two hunky men are showing a romantic interest in her, one is a lawyer and the other is a former boyfriend. Zara has plenty of attitude that keeps you reading until the last page.This is a fun, quick read.
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Ok with the book cover I wasn’t expecting Agatha Christie, but I was hoping for something other than campy cutesie shtick. I pushed myself to keep reading after the first chapter once I realized that this was going to be a very laborious read and made it to about 17% of the book when I needed a break from the high school dialogue and at times silliness of the story. I ended up reading about 8 books before I made myself come back to finish.
This had an 80’s sitcom, mixed with Scooby Doo and some Barney Fife feel to it. It tried exceedingly hard to be cute and for me it just never quiet got there. Or maybe it was trying for serious and I thought it was trying for cute, either way it was just a long dragged out story with loads that could have been left out to move the story along at a faster pace. It wasn’t totally awful it was just not a style that worked for me.
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Zara Romano is an Irish Italian mortician. When walking her dog Smooches she finds the dead body of the mayor in a tree. She is the youngest in her family with 6 older brothers, 2 of which are on the police force, one of them the chief. Her hot ex boyfriend Marcello is also a police detective. She then stumbles across a few more bodies. Can she help figure out who’s the murderer? A really good read, interesting characters, interesting plot. It left me wanting the next book. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This started out very strong but the ending fell flat and one of the biggest story lines in the book is never mentioned from like the last 17% of the story and is left completely unresolved. The Epilogue wasn’t necessary because it didn’t give the readers anything new or updated on the story/characters other than one of them adopts a dog. I really liked the characters and it definitely made me laugh so I will read another one if it does continue as a series but I really hope that she steps up the ending/conclusions in the next book.
“I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily review this book. This is my honest review.” at the end your review.” A cozy mystery with quick witted dialogue. The story line is fast paced but has a few hole. Sets you up for future stories and what will the Nana’s shirts say next!