Reviews

Rainy Day Women by Kay Kendall

taisie22's review

3.0

Maybe I should have read the first book. This one was kind of blah, not particularly a mystery as you could figure out the plot by about one quarter of the way in. The characters were not engaging and I found the heroine just whiney. She complained about everyone else's mood swings but didn't seem to notice her own. I didn't like her constant lying to her husband who was only concerned about her and their child. If she was an adult she would be honest with him - she never told him she had been in training in the CIA and had people after her now? Really?
The story takes place in my era so that was fairly interesting and the cover is great, but it wasn't my cup of tea. I received this as an ARC from the author for an honest opinion.

juliewrayh's review

5.0

Raise your consciousness with the tale of murder and mayhem. Kendall does a lovely job showing Austin's emerging willingness to do what women of that day did--solve problems on their own. The 1960s were a time when women not only did what they had to do--they began to push back against the repression of the 1950s. Austin's investigation begins with a phone call from an old friend--who has been falsely accused of murder. Austin and her new baby dash across Canada to help solve the case. Highly enjoyed this vintage mystery.