Fatal Brushstroke
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A dead body in her garden and a homicide detective on her doorstep…Computer programmer and tole painting enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson doesn't envision finding either when she steps outside to investigate the frenzied yipping coming from her own backyard.
After all, she lives in Vista Beach, a quiet California beach community where violent crime is rare and murder even rarer.
Suspicion falls on Rory when the body buried in her flowerbed turns out to be someone she knows—her tole painting teacher, Hester Bouquet. Just two weeks before, Rory attended one of Hester's weekend seminars, an unpleasant experience she vowed never to repeat.
As evidence piles up against Rory, she embarks on a quest to identify the killer and clear her name. Can Rory unearth the truth before she encounters her own brush with death?
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FATAL BRUSHSTROKE by Sybil Johnson - A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you’ll probably like them all.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/54 STARSI was surprised that this was book #1 in the series. The characters have detailed background and show the history. I like Aurora and her friend Liz. I did guess the murder early on and what the murder weapon was, but not all the motive and why frame Aurora.Aurora does not tell the police everything she knows or the full truth right away because she does not trust the police with good reason. The Chief of Police can only see her as the guilty party because of who her parents were.Why do people blame the innocent children for things that the parents do even before they were born?Rory finds a body buried in her yard and does the right thing and calls the police. It was her teacher on tole painting that she had taken a lesson from her a couple of weeks ago.Rory's adopted mom owns a craft store. This is centered around tole painting. Which takes a lot of time to do.Rory works on computers from home. She also helps her mom out in her store. She is single just broke up with boyfriend. Her good friend Liz sells homes.Detective Green is pretty new to town. He is looking at Aurora as one main suspect but he is also doing his job. He is good looking. He is very serious.The setting is Vista Beach, CA it is a mile wide and two miles long on the coast.I would read more books by Sybil Johnson in the future.I was given this ebook to read by Net Galley and Henery Press. In return I agreed to give honest review of Fatal Brushstroke.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Completely stupid. The main character is too self absorbed. Thinks only about her convenience, lies at all times and then thinks that people don't trust her
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Did not like the heroine. Rory was stupid and silly. She withheld info and lied to police. Plot simple with useless embellishments and misdirection. All characters were flat stereotypes. Ending insipid. Police detective and Rory didn't even get together. Only thing that would have been satisfying. Don't bother book very frustrating.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From now on, Rory vowed to use the memo feature on her cell phone instead of the Post-it notes she usually employed. That way, she wouldn't leave little bits of herself lying around in unexpected places—like under dead bodies.For the longest time while reading this book I had my theory on who I thought was behind everything that was happening in the book. I was like "This is so obvious! Why can't anyone see that [character name redacted] is behind everything?" I have not included the name of the person that I thought was behind everything because even though I was completely wrong, I still don't want to spoil anything. Boy, I have never been so happy to have been so wrong. If I had been right this book would not have been as enjoyable as it was.There are events from Aurora's (Rory) past involving her biological parents that really affect the way that everyone in the community see her. Those events are mentioned a little bit into the book and so when everyone seemed suspicious of her I had felt like I was missing something. When her past was revealed things definitely cleared up for me. I really liked Rory so it was hard to continue to read this book once everyone became suspicious of her and started to blame her. The blame of her and the gossip got to be too much and I could have done without some of it. I mean couldn't the police have followed up on any other leads and done their job correctly?I really don't know what to think of Detective Green because even though I had hoped that he wouldn't have been blinded by the town's suspicion of Rory he at times seemed to really fall for it. Maybe I was just hoping that he would help Rory clear her name and that maybe they would become friends and eventually grow into a deeper relationship. Okay so I'm going a little overboard but I don't care.There were some pretty interesting twists that threw me for a loop. At the end when it was revealed who was behind everything and why they did it I was definitely surprised. It was a great ending to this book and I would be interested in seeing what happens next in this series. Thanks to NetGalley and Henery Press for the galley.