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Death of a Russian Doll

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by Barbara Early
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Just in time for the holidays, fans of Leslie Meier and Vicki Delany are going to want to pick up the charming third installment in Barbara Early’s Vintage Toy Shop mysteries.
It’s all fun and games with toyshop owner Liz McCall until deadly secrets are unwrapped upon the eve of the holidays.
Who knew? Liz McCall is not thrilled when her boyfriend Police Chief Ken Young introduces her to his estranged wife Marya. The model-quality Russian immigrant, back in East Aurora to rekindle their romance, will be working as a hairstylist at the barber shop next door to Well Played, the toyshop Liz manages for her dad. When Marya offers to help with the shop’s doll rehab project, Liz can’t help but offer up only a weak smile, but her secret hesitations are for naught when Marya’s body is discovered in the barber shop with a hair dryer cord wrapped around her neck.
Liz’s dad, retired from the police force, is asked to investigate since Ken is the prime suspect.The whole town is abuzz with the scandal and Liz has a few questions of her own, wanting nothing more than to forget the loud argument she overheard between Marya and Ken the night before. There could have been other motives...Was Marya going to cut into a competing hairstylist business? Who is the bumbling private investigator hanging around and why won’t he explain himself?
All eyes are on Liz, including those of an odd matryoshka doll in the shop which seems to move of its own accord, to unravel this entertaining riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma that is Death of a Russian Doll, the third jolly Vintage Toy Shop mystery from Barbara Early.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Vintage Toy Shop Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 9, 2018

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781683317036
      • File size: 2241 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781683317036
      • File size: 1579 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 6, 2018
      In Early’s appealing third Vintage Toyshop mystery (after 2017’s Murder on the Toy Town Express), the budding romance between Liz McCall, who works in her father’s vintage toy shop in East Aurora, N.Y., and Ken Young, the town’s police chief, abruptly ends when Ken’s beautiful Russian wife, Marya, breezes into town and quickly finds work at the hair salon next to the toy shop. When Marya is found strangled with the cord of a hair dryer, Ken is in the sticky position of being a person of interest for the police force he heads. This problem is solved when the mayor appoints Liz’s dad, the former police chief, to step in as interim chief until the killer is apprehended. The plot is complex enough, Liz and her gang of relatives and friends are entertaining, and the descriptions of the array of vintage toys create a nice mood of nostalgia. This quick and easy cozy is as comfy as its narrator’s well-worn Scooby-Doo pajamas. Agent: Kim Lionetti, BookEnds Literary Agency.

    • Kirkus

      August 15, 2018
      What to do when you discover that your boyfriend is married and may have murdered his wife? Get ready, get set, detect.Liz McCall dated Police Chief Ken Young until his wife, Marya, who cuts hair at a local barbershop, showed up and reclaimed him. Liz, who helps her dad, the former police chief, run a toy shop in a Buffalo suburb, has helped him solve a few murders along the way (Murder on the Toy Town Express, 2017, etc.). So when Marya is found strangled with the cord of a hair dryer, Liz goes on high alert, especially after Ken is suspended and the mayor asks her dad to take back his old job until the murder is solved. Although Liz is willing to believe that Ken's innocent and that he took Marya back only because he felt sorry for her, she still can't forgive him for concealing his marriage in the first place. In addition, there are two new men in her life, FBI accountant Mark Baker and wealthy playboy Ian Browning, whose family foundation she hopes will finance a charitable project her sister has cooked up, restoring old dolls for poor children. Since Marya was born in Russia, it takes a while to dig up background information about her, but the police learn that she was brought up by an older sister who worked in virtual slavery in a chicken factory. Marya couldn't possibly have been making a profit at the prices she charged for haircuts, yet large amounts of money passed through her bank account. Liz is determined to help solve a case in which she's a suspect herself while juggling her suddenly byzantine love life.A down-to-earth heroine faces plenty of complications in her attempt to solve a crime that hits far too close to home.

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