Jake has promised Laura that his risky gumshoe days are over he is a novelist now, a new leaf turned over for the woman he loves. Murphy has penned a winner! My thanks go to Net Galley and Alibi Publishers for the ARC. All That Glitters, the new episode of Michael Murphy’s Jake and Laura series, a cozy mystery if ever there was one, is full of Depression-era flavor, complete with celebrities from the time and place in which is it set. Jake Donovan and Laura Wilson have left the Big Apple in their dust and gone to Hollywood, where Laura is about to enter a new phase of her career with a lead role in one of the new talking pictures. Don’t be left out in the dark when it hits the shelves in January!
You never know you may become addicted to the series.This was a quick read, and a fun one. In other words: it’s a doozy!Ĭold weather has come, and now is the perfect time to curl up in your favorite warm hidey-hole with this extremely entertaining mystery. Murphy peppers the narrative and dialogue with generous applications of Depression-era slang that sounded to this reviewer as if it had fallen from the lips of her late parents. The story is enhanced by one detective who carries a torch for Jake, and another who creates all manner of ridiculous situations with his obvious, bumbling surveillance.
Who would dream that Blackie Doyle, the protagonist of his series, would have to solve a real-life murder to clear author Donovan of a murder charge that has been tethered to him by scant evidence and lazy cops? Louella Parsons, a real-life celebrity journalist whom Murphy has borrowed to add spice to his already spunky story, wants to see him behind bars just think what a scoop it represents!
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