T's Stuff: Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery by Gayle Leeson

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery by Gayle Leeson

Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery (Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series)
by Gayle Leeson

About Perils and Lace

Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Publisher: Grace Abraham Publishing
Number of Pages - 212 (approx.)
Digital ASIN: B086KXY34W

A murderer outwitting a quirky flapper ghost? Seams unlikely!
Budding retro fashion designer and entrepreneur Amanda Tucker is thrilled about making costumes for Winter Garden High School’s production of Beauty and the Beast. But when the play’s director Sandra Kelly is poisoned, Amanda realizes there’s a murderer in their midst. She’s determined to keep herself and the students safe, so when her ghostly fashionista friend Max suggests they investigate, Amanda rolls up her sleeves and prepares to follow the deadly pattern…

My Review: 5*

Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery is the second book in the series by Gayle Leeson. It was the first book in the series and by Gayle Leeson I have read. I am hooked and looking forward to more books both by Gayle and in the series. This is a clean read and very little romance, jut a few kisses here and there. It is not spooky at all even though one of the main characters is a ghost. The book is kind of quirky at times. Shop and the school names do get to be a redundant at times, I mean every time the school or one of the shops is mentioned it is called by the full name of it. Like the main characters store is Designs On You, it is never just called the shop or the store, the same with every other shop name and the High School. I think it is just me though, but by the end I was kind of rolling my eyes about it. This is a mystery, with lots of clues and lots of suspects.

Amanda Tucker is a fashion designer and runs a small shop called Designs On You. She is asked to make costumes for the High school play of Beauty and the Beast. Shortly after she agrees Sandra Kelly the director and teacher at the school is found dead in her home. Amanda and Max the resident ghost at the building where Amanda's shop is decide to look into the murder. There are suspects all over the place and Amanda follows the clues and her instincts to bring down the murder and to keep her and the rest of the town safe as well.

About Gayle Leeson

Amanda Lee, she wrote the Embroidery Mystery series, and as Gayle Trent, she writes the Daphne Martin Cake Mystery series and the Myrtle Crumb Mystery series. Going forward, Gayle intends to keep her writing until the Gayle Leeson name. She has a series of women's fiction novellas set in a shopping mall that has been converted to include micro-apartments (the Kinsey Falls series) and is enjoying writing the Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series, the Down South Cafe series, and co-writing the Victoria Square series with Lorraine Bartlett.