MYSTERY

Lights! Camera! Puzzles!

Lights! Camera! Puzzles! Pegasus Crime. (Puzzle Lady, Bk. 20). Apr. 2019. 272p. ISBN 9781643130590. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9781643131214. M
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If Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, didn't need the money, she certainly wouldn't be sitting in a theater watching actresses audition to play her in the movie made from her fifth ex-husband's trashy tell-all book. But, when a production assistant is murdered before filming even starts, Sergeant Crowley, a homicide detective and one of Cora's ex-boyfriends, calls her to the scene. Lovers' spat gone wrong? It's possible, because the woman's boyfriend is found dead as well. Something doesn't feel right to Cora, but she's sidetracked when a TV actress steps in to play her in the film. Filming might start, but murders continue to roll. While Cora is willing to let Crowley solve this series of murders, it's actress Angela Broadbent who pushes her to investigate. The one-liners and witty comebacks never stop in the latest "Puzzle Lady" romp.
VERDICT Hall's humorous mystery takes us behind the scenes in the film world. Readers who appreciate fast-paced cozies with an outrageous amateur sleuth will relish puzzling out the follow-up to The Purloined Puzzle.
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