Week 19 Review: Grave New World

From Goodreads:

Jane Ladling cordially invites you to the world's most romantic wedding. But first, there's a few items to check off her to-do list.

Actually plan the festivities

Find a way to pay for said festivities

Avoid finding a dead body. OOPS! Solve a murder

As the owner of a landlocked cemetery and self-proclaimed expert amateur sleuth, Jane knows death inside and out. After receiving an invite to speak at a local writer's club, she discovers a dead body upon arrival, plus an invitation from the killer.

Player one is ready. Are you?

Now the game is on!

With a newly elected (smoking hot) sheriff who doubles as her overprotective fiancé, a gaggle of enabling best friends, and a lovingly vicious guardcat at her side, the intrepid Jane has no doubt she’ll win. But as clues lead everywhere and nowhere at once, another victim is discovered, and an ancient family curse rears its ugly head. Jane realizes she's caught in a battle between cat and mouse. To succeed, she'll have to lay a trap of her own…

My Review:
Oh this was such a great and delightful read! It was a bit sad to say goodbye to these characters (and Beau didn't get a love interest!) but they had a really interesting mystery to deal with to wrap things up that was really entertaining to read! 

This mystery was really interesting, because of the amount of suspects, who are in a writing group, that are apparently playing a game with Jane ad Team Truth. I had a fantastic time seeing Jane go undercover as a future best-selling novelist, and with all her off the wall theories! 

I'm really glad that Lucy got brought back, that was a lingering question in my mind, and it was great to see it resolved! I loved what she added to the story, because she was a friend, but she also stole all that money, so the question was if she was trustworthy or not.

Besides all that, there was also the wedding preparations, which was so cute to read, of Jane and Conrad figuring out who was going to do what roles and such. It was such a fitting end to this book, between this book's resolution to the mystery, to her and Conrad overcoming her fear of the family curse! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read the new series that it seems that Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe are doing next! 

Authors: Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe 
Series: A Jane Ladling Mystery #6
Read: May 4th, 2024
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love their writing and this series, and it's a End of Series 2024 Book and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book! 
Publisher: Author Talk Media LLC
Published: April 29th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars