“Get ready for a sassy, sultry thrill ride filled with romance and suspense that will leave you dying for more!” Gemma Halliday, NYTimes Bestselling AuthorFrom USA Today Best Selling Author Wendy Byrne comes the first book in a new romantic mystery series.Down on her luck blues singer, Gabriella Santos, escapes her over-protective family, along with a series of bad relationships, for a gig in … family, along with a series of bad relationships, for a gig in Chicago to prove she’s not the flake her family believes her to be. But when she tangles with the sexy but aloof bar owner, Shane O’Neil, she starts to think she might have bitten off more than she can chew. Ex-special forces guy turned private detective and reluctant bar owner, Shane O’Neil has a laundry list of things he doesn’t like, starting with cops. He also doesn’t like a too-beautiful-for-her-own-good blues singer trying to tell him how to run his bar. She’s pushy, chatty, high-maintenance, and does everything she can do to get under his skin. But when he ends up beaten to a pulp in a Chicago alley, he has no choice but to rely on Gabriella for help. Despite the sizzling chemistry between them, finding the balance between trust and commitment is a formidable task.
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Mesmerizing tale of a Blues singer rescuing an ex-special forces agent from danger, a frame, and his past. The chemistry will snare you, the mystery will keep you hanging on. A 5-star must read that will hook you on this new series.
If you’ve read any of my other reviews, you know that I’m a sucker for a good murder mystery that involves music. This book did not disappoint! Gabriella is the sassy high maintenance singer you love to hate who ends up down on her luck in a small town dive bar. The twist is there is nothing about Gabriella you hate! She is so funny and fun to read about. This book has a lot going on but in a good way. I never got lost in the story line which is very important, and I really enjoyed this book a lot.
I received a free electronic copy of this mystery novel from Netgalley, Wendy Byrne, and Two O’s Publishing. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this novel of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work. Murder at the Blues Stop is an excellent contemporary mystery, told well, with personable protagonists, a winding, windy mystery, and a simple need to bet on this girl despite her rep. I thoroughly enjoyed Murder at the Blues Stop. I am pleased to recommend Wendy Byrne to friends and family. She is an author I will follow.
Ms. Byrne brings us a contemporary mystery novel set in Chicago, the first of the Santos Family Mysteries. Gabriella Santos has had a relaxed bid for achieving maturity, and despite having a great voice to carry the blues, she feels completely left in the shade by her brilliant, serious siblings and parents. The Santos name in Florida and the deep south screams respectable, public-minded go-getters. And then there is Gabby. As she sees herself, her assets are her voice, her sense of style, her stockpile of Jimmy Choos and Ferragamos, and her ability to find something good in everyone she meets. She leads with her heart, so her life choices are often flawed, her boyfriends are unquestionably wrong for both her and society and she is quickly bailed out of every mishap she encounters by her hovering family. Her solution – taking a month-long gig singing at a Chicago bar called The Blues Stop. She doesn’t have even one relative in the windy city. She actually has no family above the Mason-Dixon line. She CAN take care of herself!
Despite the fact that she is basically fired by one of the two new owners of The Blues Stop the first hour of her first day, she WILL stick around and make this work. It would be simple enough to grab the next flight back to Florida but then she would have one more stone of failure piled on the family temple of rescues, and she can’t let that happen. She will stay in this job – and not only because she sees it as her proof of maturity as far as her family is concerned, but also because she finds co-owner ex-military Shane O’Neil irresistible. Even after the bullets start flying too close to her personal space…