Beauty and lies collide in this fresh and flirty mystery series.Beauty consultant Ziva Diaz is a girl boss who doesn’t back down from anyone. When she’s attacked inside a client’s home and wakes to find a dead body, she gives up the safety of selling lipsticks for the dangerous role of detective. With suspects piling up, a killer on the loose and her own life threatened, Ziva vows to solve the … Ziva vows to solve the case and digs her high heels in even deeper.
The last thing she expected is finding another dead body – or befriending the murderer.
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The BEAUTY SECRETS SERIES are humorous romantic mysteries featuring Ziva Diaz, a girl boss who doesn’t back down from a challenge or chocolate. The books are smart and sassy, and infused with Janet Evanovich style-humor. Read it now!
Beauty Secrets Series Order
Book One: Makeup & Murder
Book Two: Kiss & Makeup
Book Three: Eyeliner & Alibis
Book Four: Pedicures & Prejudice
Book Five: Beauty & Bloodshed
Short Story: A Ring to Die For
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This is s fun and enjoyable mystery. I like Ziva and her friends. I like the humorous situations she finds herself in her professional and private lives, as well as she investigates s murder. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good mystery with humor.
A fun and quirky murder mystery. A lot of girlie talk about makeup obviously already due to the fact that Ziva is a beauty consultant. But once I got past that it was a great mystery with a lot of colourful characters and interesting situations.
I loved the humor of Ziva, the main character in solving the murder and what she does in each chapter. I didn’t know who the murderer was until close to the end of the book. This is a very good cozy mystery.
Makeup, murder, and above all else, CHOCOLATE! What is not to love? This mystery has a well crafted plot, interesting and quirky characters and is very well written. I will be looking forward to the second book!
Cute book. Combination of romantic comedy and cozy mystery. Very light hearted.
My first in series. Will be interesting to see how characters grow.
Very fast and easy to read, I read it in a a few hours.
Makeup Delivery to Murder
(Disclaimer: I was recently provided a copy of the book. I decided to read it and provide my honest review.) Makeup and Murder, Beauty Secrets Book 1 by Stephanie Damore is a light-hearted read and your first introduction to Ziva the main character. There is a lot of laughs out loud moments, witty, funny, gossipy, and lively characters. Some of the plot’s potential places of murders (world-building)are interesting and fuels the page-turner tendencies of the book. Ziva is a strong, self-confident, lively, witty and funny character that drives you to keep turning the page to see what’s next. Overall, I applaud the author for writing a truly enjoyable fun-to-read cozy mystery with great characters. MY RECOMMENDATION: If you are in the feeling for a light-hearted, funny witty cozy mystery then Makeup & Murder is for you. Stuff it in your beach/Pool bag or your Vacation bag for some relaxing reading. –Tex.
Must.Love.Fashion
Perfectly narrated by Tonia Blake, our heroine, Ziva, initially seems . . . young. But one gradually realize her fixation on fashion and makeup isn’t due to her being an arrested teenager but because this is her business. Funny and frequently campy, you will meet gangsters and dancers and matrons and mothers along with a few hunky fellows as a murder or two is investigated and solved. See if you can figure out “whodunnit”!
Exciting Murder Mystery!
This book has lots of action, suspense, hanky panky, and great characters that make you hang onto the edge of your seat to find out what is going to happen next.
Ziva’s job as at Beauty Secrets makes her and her clients happy but a jealous beauty competitor named Justine is a thorn in Ziva’s side.
When Ziva stumbles onto a dead body, she is determined to find out who the killer is. Ziva starts getting threatening notes followed by a break in that leaves her house trashed. Luckily her best friend Aria is her go to when she needs her.
I loved reading this book and am looking forward to the next book in the series. Thanks for a great plot and interesting characters.
The characters were interesting, and I really enjoyed the humor in this book. I could have done without the sexual references even though there were only a few. I would like to read another of this authors books just to see what becomes of Ziva.
Great story! A fun and entertaining read.
A good clean read book.
Refreshing Cozy Mystery
This cozy mystery is the first in a series that should be very good. The action is fast and the plot is complicated. There is plenty of humor to keep you smiling. The characters are great! The personalities are realistic as are the emotions. I will be reading more of this auithor’s work. I received a free copy (ARC) of this book and voluntarily chose to share my honest review.
Tip of your chair read that you won’t want to put down until you know who did it! I could relate to the characters and felt Ziva’s adrenaline while she was trying to figure out who attacked her and was guilty of murder. Chapters were a little long for me (I prefer short, quick chapters, especially in cozy mysteries since I want to stop at end of chapters LOL). Great book for the beach!