Liliana Hart’s Addison Holmes mystery series is fabulous! I cannot recommend it highly enough. This review refers to book one in the set, Whiskey Rebellion, but applies to all of the books in the series.
Hart is a very good writer and story teller and, while no one’s perfect at anything, you’d be hard-pressed to find any significant problem with these books. If you like a good story, with a lot of humor, romance, steamy sex, wonderful dialogue, great characterization, and a flawless sense of place, along with a mystery that will keep you guessing right up to the end, then this series is for you.
Addison Holmes is a financially strapped school teacher who stumbles into her first mystery, and a new career, when she becomes an ecdysiast as a means of earning extra money. Removing her clothing for money doesn’t really work out for her, but it turns out she’s a pretty good detective. Of course, she also draws trouble, danger, and hot cops like a magnet, but it’s not like she intends any of that.
Hart evokes the setting – Savannah, Georgia – in both dialogue, description, and characterization and the details are all just perfect. At the same time, we all know the hypocrites, judgmental gossips, and busybodies you’ll meet in these books. And the people you don’t recognize are an awful lot of fun to get to know.
Hart isn’t out to solve the world’s problems with these books; she’s out to entertain and spin a yarn you can love, laugh at, and enjoy. In that endeavor, she succeeds and then some. I love Addison’s determined outlook, her willingness to do what she has to, and her internal dialogue; this girl is the kind of character a writer hopes to create sometime in their career and Hart has done it with aplomb.
I love Nick Dempsey, the cop that Addison falls for (or not…?) and I love the chemistry Hart creates between our protagonists. I adore Addison’s relationship with her best friend, Kate. There is almost nothing about these books (yes, I read the four available books in this series in four days, and am waiting with bated breath for the next one, due this fall) that I didn’t like and frankly, whatever those small things were, they’re not worth mentioning here. Nothing and on one is perfect, but what I find to be a flaw or annoyance you might find entertaining or endearing.
I also need to say that I very rarely laugh out loud while reading, and that there are very, very few writers who can make laugh so hard that I have to stop reading to collect myself. The fact that Hart makes me do exactly that several times in each book puts her in a very small class of very funny writers. Dave Barry, for example. Really, some of this is so funny you’ll catch yourself snorting with laughter.
Read these books. Read these books because they are fun, smart, well-written, and entertaining as hell! Read these books because you’re looking for a series you can commit to. Read these books because you love a good story. Read these books if for no other reason than to take a lesson in how to create a fantastic mystery/romance/suspense/comedy story that is well done and worth the time to read.
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I found myself laughing out loud all the way through this hilarious book about a history teacher who has no luck at all. Luckily her BFF owns a PI agency and hires her. Oh--she manages to get all the jobs done--but she ends up bruised and some other minor catastrophes as well. It kind of reminded me of the Stephanie Plum series--which I also laughed my way through!! I will surely be reading more of this series!!
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