Permed to Death is the first whodunit in the hilarious Bad Hair Day mystery series. Hairstylist Marla Shore is already having a bad hair day when one of her clients dies in the shampoo chair at her salon. Then Detective Dalton Vail accuses her of putting poison in the woman’s coffee creamer. Grumpy Bertha Kravitz might not have been Marla’s favorite customer, but she wouldn’t have murdered the … she wouldn’t have murdered the lady. With her reputation at stake, Marla decides it’s up to her to unmask the killer.
Combing the woman’s privileged world for clues, Marla discovers the town is crawling with potential suspects. Bertha’s son is resentful about being written out of her will. Her shady business partner has secrets to hide, and then there’s the niece, who inherits Bertha’s fortune. But Marla might have to look closer to home for the culprit. Her janitor has vanished without a trace, and one of her stylists leads an upscale lifestyle that doesn’t match her income.
As the case grows more snarled, Marla determines to unravel the clues. She’d better hurry before the smart detective discovers her scandalous secret, or he’ll pin her with a motive and lock her away in a place where a bad hair day will become permanent.
“Marla the beautician is a delight!”—Tamar Myers, author of the Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries
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Permed to Death
Bad Hair Day mysteries #1
Nancy J. Cohen
Orange Grove Press, Mar 2016
269 pages
Cozy mystery
Purchased for Kindle app
Well, the cover shows the story, but I really don’t find it attractive. The colors are gaudy, sorry. Just too many colors for a cover. And the main character is really quite conservative in the way she …
I truly loved the way the book pulls you in to being like you are there solving the mystery. I fell in love with the characters and love all the author’s work.
Nancy J. Cohen’s Permed to Death is one of those books that start out fast and don’t slow down. In this, the first novel in her acclaimed and long-running “Bad Hair Day” mysteries, we meet main character Marla Shore in the styling salon she owns in Florida. One page later we get the dead body—the deeply unpleasant Bertha Kravitz, who dies right …