When Josie Matthews buys a Victorian mansion with a notorious past, she hopes to turn it into a successful inn. While she expects all the headaches of renovating an old house, she isn’t prepared to be sent back in time to the site of a double-murder which occurred at the mansion in 1929. While the murders were never solved, they were believed to have been committed by Wall Street financier, David … David Remington, forever known as the Tycoon Murderer.
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, David Remington has invited several friends and acquaintances to a house party, including a Chicago bootlegger and his moll, a Broadway playwright and his best friend, a corrupt U.S. Senator and his wife, a handsome silent screen star and a disgruntled federal agent. After a mysterious woman arrives uninvited, guests start dying one-by-one, making everyone wonder who will be next.
Determined to solve the murders before being sent back to her own time, Josie investigates the crimes and tries not to be the next victim. But the biggest mystery is whether David Remington was falsely accused or whether he truly is the Tycoon Murderer.
THE TYCOON MURDERER is a time-travel romance/cozy mystery with a retro flair. It contains mild violence, humor and a great deal of bootleg booze.
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As an author of a dozen time-travel novels, I am happy to recommend a new addition to the genre. In The Tycoon Murderer, Maureen Driscoll provides readers with a compelling time-travel tale wrapped in a suspenseful cozy mystery. Set mostly on a Victorian estate in rural Oregon, the novel follows recently divorced screen writer Josie Matthews from 2018 to 1929, where she becomes quickly embroiled in a decades-old murder mystery. I hope that Driscoll, the author of more than a dozen regency romances, continues to branch out to other genres. The Tycoon Murderer, filled with classic Roaring Twenties characters, is proof she can do it well.
I enjoy reading time travel books and was glad to find this enjoyable book with its interesting characters and story.
Great characters and details of the 1920’s make this time travel novel a good read. A surprise time travel crasher makes the plot exciting. The house itself is almost a character in both time lines. A fun read.
Before I say anything about this story, I have to disclose that I’ve had the privilege to work with this author for sometime now and I’ve come to love her writing voice. My review of this story is, as is with every book I read regardless of who wrote it and if I’ve worked on it, totally subjective and honest opinion.
That said, I can truly say that I’ve loved this story for so many reasons. First, I’ve been a fan of Time Travel genre ever since I’ve seen The Time Machine with Rod Taylor and Timeline with Gerard Butler. I’ve also read Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander and Karyn Gerard’s Timeless Heart series.
And if none of these sound familiar to you, I have two more movies that I am sure you’ve seen and that’s Kate and Leopold with Hugh Jackman and Meg Ryan for one, and please don’t tell me you’ve never seen Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymore in Somewhere in Time. All of these have a time travel in common with one another, but romance and mystery are predominant through all of them.
This is well written and plotted cozy mystery with romance elements. Its main characters are very likable duo of amateur sleuths that I liked from the start. It has an array of very fun and funny secondary characters and a mystery murderer whom I tried to identify from the start and just got it wrong every time.
I also enjoyed the setting of this story in the 1920s as well as the way the time travel occurred. It sounded like a plausible and interesting theory.
If you’ve never read Maureen Driscoll’s stories before, this story would be a perfect time to sample her work. I am sure that you’ll have as much fun as I did discovering her writing voice.
Melanie for b2b