Author: Katie Gayle
Published: December 2nd 2020 by Bookouture
Format: ebook, 238 pages
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Epiphany Bloom Mysteries #1
Refreshing when you discover a new series where you can’t decide which character you adore more. Usually, the reader is subjected to annoying personalities just so they can find one or two that they like, but not so with this first in a new series book.
Epiphany (Pip) Bloom tends to get into awkward situations, the kind that can happen to anyone if anyone would involve arms dealers and things going up in flames. Pip is once again down on her luck, and with her mother cutting her off from the finance train, Pip must scrounge for another job to pay for rent and cat food. When a temporary file clerk position opens at a local private investigation agency, Pip paints on her best smile and opens the door to this next in a long line of failed jobs. Instead of the job that she was expecting, she is mistaken for a missing persons expert.
Before she knows it, Pip has found herself a seat at the table, and with her expert knowledge of the celebrity gossip pages, she is the perfect, according to her, fit to find the missing son of an Angelina/Gwyneth actress currently preparing for a movie role in England. As Pip digs into the case and takes on her daft sister’s blog persona, she encounters oddball characters and possible love interests. A twisted tale of green activists, pro-plastic activists, a cult-ish retreat, a boxer, chemical engineer, and anything else offbeat and wacky that the writing team of Katie Gayle can think up.
It all sounds absurd, but it works. The authors have created endearing characters, and besides, who could not love a central character who has set her mother’s ring tone as the Flight of the Valkyries.
Epiphany (Pip) Bloom tends to get into awkward situations, the kind that can happen to anyone if anyone would involve arms dealers and things going up in flames. Pip is once again down on her luck, and with her mother cutting her off from the finance train, Pip must scrounge for another job to pay for rent and cat food. When a temporary file clerk position opens at a local private investigation agency, Pip paints on her best smile and opens the door to this next in a long line of failed jobs. Instead of the job that she was expecting, she is mistaken for a missing persons expert.
Before she knows it, Pip has found herself a seat at the table, and with her expert knowledge of the celebrity gossip pages, she is the perfect, according to her, fit to find the missing son of an Angelina/Gwyneth actress currently preparing for a movie role in England. As Pip digs into the case and takes on her daft sister’s blog persona, she encounters oddball characters and possible love interests. A twisted tale of green activists, pro-plastic activists, a cult-ish retreat, a boxer, chemical engineer, and anything else offbeat and wacky that the writing team of Katie Gayle can think up.
It all sounds absurd, but it works. The authors have created endearing characters, and besides, who could not love a central character who has set her mother’s ring tone as the Flight of the Valkyries.
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