Book four in the Lucille Mystery Series continues with the
laughs in this cute cozy series that features a mature Italian-American woman
and her extended family and friends.
Lucille follows in the footsteps of her namesake, Lucille Ball, and
teams up with her Ethel, best buddy Flo, to get into all sorts of crazy
adventures, all with the goal of solving a murder mystery.
The folksy narrative voice is from Lucille's perspective
(3rd person limited narration), and the humor comes mainly from her sarcastic
tone, silent prayers to saints, eternal dieting attempts, and a penchant for
stealing vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
Don't take any of it seriously, despite the author putting in one
medical problem, here and there, specific to mature readers.
Book One
This is book four in the Lucille Mystery Series. Here are all the books to date in the series:
- Confession is Murder
- Unholy Matrimony
- Hit and Nun (Reviewed on this site)
- A Room with a Pew
Book Two
A Room with a Pew (the title is cute but it has very little
to do with the story) begins on Thanksgiving day with Lucille catering the
holiday dinner for her family and friends.
Lucille is proud of her ability to handle the busy holiday:
...she may not be one of them executive types she read about in magazines all the time who wear pantsuits to work and order their lunch from fancy restaurants, but she knew how to roast a turkey and she knew how to care for her family.
Book Three
She is also proud of her ability to sort out criminals and
crimes, despite always landing in a heap of trouble with her friend Flo. The bad guys in this book are particularly
bad, and the ladies have some very close scrapes to escape from. There are family problems to deal with along
the way, of course, in her working class family.
The series is a light read not just because of the
humor. The writing is kept simple with
lots of dialog and minimal description.
There is a regular cast of characters, but the author is very good at
bringing the reader up to speed on them, in case you haven't read the other
books in the series, or you've read them a long while ago.
The author's other cute cozy mystery series - Gourmet De-Lite
From the book's description, A Room with a Pew:
Lucille Mazzarella is back, and this time she’s investigating the murder of her own poor cousin Louis. Tracking down a killer might lead the fifty-something housewife into the clutches of a Godfather she never wanted to meet.
When Lucille discovers the body of her cousin Louis in the church parking lot, her first thought is that he may have skipped one service too many, but when the cops shock her with the news that Louis was killed by a professional hit man, she realizes the Almighty had nothing to do with the deed.
Even more shocking is the discovery that the victim, who never had a penny to his name, had socked away a huge wad of cash. As Lucille and her best friend Flo follow the money trail, it leads them from a seedy strip joint to a high-stakes gambling ring and all the way to the mob.
As the thugs close in and threaten to end Lucille’s detecting days for good, she’s tempted to give in to the most dangerous crooks she’s ever faced, but then she remembers she’s got a little family thing of her own that means more.
Here is a direct link to the book at Amazon.com
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