Review: Toasting Tina

Jane Stuart, literary agent, meets with her client Nate Barre and Tina Vale, publisher of Corsair Books. Unfortunately Tina wants to make Jane pay. She chooses to do it by canceling Nate’s million-dollar contract. Apparently, Jane’s husband (now deceased) was Tina’s lover before they married. Jane never knew about it. Tina never got over it.

Tina is in town to get an award at the Romance Authors Together (RAT) convention. Tina fails to show up and is found dead in her bath. It appears she committed suicide. She was electrocuted with one of her prized antique toasters. A note was found.

At the same time, there is a cat show at the same Inn. Jane’s son Nicholas and nanny Florence are there showing their housecat Winky. Jane makes an appearance to see how they’re doing. Things aren’t going very well.

Plus the RATs and the cats are not getting along well. Detecive Stanley Greenberg, Jane’s boyfriend, has to keep an eye on things and help settle any disputes.

Jane does not believe Tina committed suicide. Stanley finally acknowledges that it appears to have been murder. Bad part is that Jane is one of the suspects.

Fearing this would ruin her business reputation, she decides to try to find the killer before word gets out that she’s a suspect. She enlists her assistant, Daniel. They begin interviewing the various parties.

Shelly Adams, Tina’s assistant, meets with Jane to provide information about Tina.

As Jane gets deeper into investigating, she finds herself in danger. Can she find out who killed Tina without ending up another victim?

This is the first book I’ve read in this delightful series. It definitely won’t be the last. They have a new fan.

Jane is such a likeable character. She is the type of person you would want to get to know. She is able to stumble onto information in a believable manner. Her literary contacts really helped in this story. Her relationships with the other characters were well written and believable.

Reprinted with permission. Do Not repost without permission from the author, Dawn Dowdle

Book Review: Toasting Tina