A review by cassiecat
Lowcountry Bombshell by Susan M. Boyer

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

3.75

🎧3.5-3.75⭐️

No 2 in the Liz Talbot Mystery series 

I had the audiobook narrated by Tiffany Morgan. I didn’t gel with the narrator, I struggled with the accent (sorry it’s not one that I enjoy listening to) 

This is my first book by this author. 

Calista McQueen is a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe, and so far her life has echoed the events in Marilyn’s but she’s coming up to the date and big anniversary of her death, which is thought to have been made to look like suicide. Calista approaches Liz to try and stop a repeat of history. 

It’s an easy quirky listen, surely a hit for Monroe fans, as a lot of her history and story is revealed in a modern day setting. I didn’t know anything of note about her life. It’s quite an imaginative plot line. There’s a romance thread alongside it, that doesn’t include sex scenes. 

One bit made me smile as having left the dog home alone over night there was mention of feeding kibble, but no mention of letting it out for ablutions a puddle on the floor😂 I think that’s just the animal owner in me. 

The cover made me think that it was going to be a much lighter more fun read, it is in fact a serious  mystery with a unique angle, it was the MM connection which encouraged me to go for it. It took me a long time to settle into it, but I enjoyed it in the end. It had some interesting twists and turns. I’m not the biggest fan of the writing style and I found the dialogue somewhat stilted  so I don’t think I’d read others in the series.