New Year's Eve Murder

By: Leslie Meier

Narrated by: Karen White

After the annual parade of Christmas presents in Tinker's Cove, Maine, has ended, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth are ready to ring in the new year in style. Elizabeth has won mother/daughter winter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie magazine! But the all-expenses-paid trip is bound to have some hidden costs - and one of them is murder.

After arriving at the magazine’s offices, meeting their fellow makeover candidates, and being treated to a fashion show, Elizabeth is enamored of the extreme outfits and stick-thin models - while Lucy’s having some misgivings. The pampering is nice and the glamour of haute couture is bizarrely fascinating, but bitterness and aggression lurk behind the hipper-than-thou façade. And things turn downright ugly when self-absorbed fashion editor Nadine Nelson falls mysteriously ill and dies.

Lucy can tell that backstabbing, rumors, and cliquishness have stirred up some bad blood at Jolie over the years. But this Manhattan murder mystery hits too close to home when Elizabeth gets rushed to the hospital with symptoms disturbingly similar to Nadine’s - and Lucy must dress down a killer before the ball drops in Times Square....

©2006 Leslie Meier (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

5 stars

This is one of the best cozy mystery series I've read. Leslie Meier manages to keep the series fresh and entertaining with every book. I've read all of the books in this series up to date and don't mind rereading the older books as they come out.

What?!!

This was the dumbest story! So, a regular person just wanted to solve a murder that has nothing to do with her! And spoiler alert...the murder didn't even take place on New Years Eve! It was like an afterthought! And the culprit(s)...really?!!! I'm glad I didn't have to pay for this.