She agreed to work for her boyfriend’s ex. A break-up made her an ex, too. Can she trust the woman at the center of her love life crisis?Samantha Kidd’s love life is lukewarm. After agreeing to help her ex-boyfriend’s maybe-former girlfriend with a runway show, she hides her broken heart behind her reputation. But when she’s assaulted outside the venue, accusations of attention-seeking make her … attention-seeking make her lose her cool.
Determined to find her attacker, she investigates the scene as an outsider. When a fire starts on the catwalk and destroys the designer’s collection, Samantha suspects her assailant was linked to the show. This is no longer about providing help to a disgruntled designer; if Samantha ever wants to feel safe again, she has to find the person behind the crimes.
Can Samantha expose an angry arsonist before getting burned?
Some Like It Haute is the fourth sizzling mystery in the Samantha Kidd mystery series. If you like strong-willed characters, romantic entanglements, and feel-good fiction, you’ll love Diane Vallere’s funny, no-murder mystery.
Buy Some Like it Haute and warm up to wacky fashion drama today!
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Fashion Industry on Fire
This book is the fourth in a series. In my opinion, a reader should read them in order to get the best enjoyment from the series. In this episode, our favorite fashionista sleuth is working behind the scenes at a fashion show. Or at least until it goes up in smoke. This is a fast-paced cozy mystery with lots of moving pieces. The many pieces of the puzzle will keep you guessing until the final denouement. I can’t wait to read the next book!
Samantha Kidd has landed yet another temporary job in her home town of Ribbon, Pennsylvania. This time, she’s helping her ex-boyfriend’s maybe ex-girlfriend prepare a fashion show. Amanda is going to turn heads with this collection – assuming nothing goes wrong before then. Samantha thinks everything is going well, so she is surprised when she is fired the night before the big event. Then she is attacked on her way out to her car as she leaves. But when disaster strikes the show, Samantha begins to suspect that something larger is at work. Can she figure out what is going on?
The plot of this book started from page one and never let up. Samantha is facing quite a few challenges over the course of the story, and they always kept me engaged. While I don’t know much about fashion, it was used as a backdrop to the mystery, and I never felt left out. Having said that, Samantha’s fashion knowledge does provide her with a couple of clues that help her solve the mystery. Samantha is the strongest character in the book. The rest are interesting and hold our attention, but Samantha is the one who really shines. She’s also the one who gets the most growth, and I enjoyed watching that happen. I’m now anxious to see what happens to Samantha next.
Does Samantha attract trouble or troublesome people?? She certainly holds centre stage in these fiery situations and while she loves to analyse and deduct, she is not so keen to get hurt. Feeling stuck in her life and career path she agrees to work with Amanda, the maybe ex girlfriend of her ex boyfriend, Nick. An enjoyable read with lots of action and mystery and a reluctantly agreeable Detective. I like the easy to read writing style and the witty and funny approach to the story. Thanks Diane Vallere.
I enjoyed this book. There was enoughy going on to keep it interesting and with plenty of suspects it sure kept you guessing. I liked the characters who are fun and likeable, especially Eddie the best friend, he is always good for a laugh. I have a number of Diane’s books but not sure I am reading them in order, so will have to check which book is next. It doesn’t really matter though because each book is a stand alone book, it just affects her relationship. Off to start the next book.
Sam is doing the un imaginable. She is working for her ex boyfriends ex girlfriend to help make her runway show a success. But things don’t go to plan she is fired on opening night and then attacked, the one of the model’s kimono catches fires while on stage. Somebody wants this fashion collection to go up in flames but does Samantha really want to help her ex’s ex? Things heat up with more fires breaking out over Ribbon and threatening notes arriving. Can Samantha with help from best friend Eddie and smoking hot photographer Dante get to the bottom of this mystery before someone gets burned for real?
This book will be a good addition to my audio book collection when it comes out.
Samantha keeps on facing trouble at every opportunity she has to start working and this time it was not different.
It´s loads of fun to read about her interaction with the police, specially Detective Loncar, and how her way of thinking leads to more suspects than there really are and inevitably to discover who is the guilty one. Eddie – her best friend also helps her a lot this time. Very enjoyable reading!!!