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Priced To Move Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Ginny Aiken / Revell Reviewed by Susan SleemanDo you like shopping? Like jewelry? Like a chick-lit voice in your novels? Then you’ll love A Steal of A Deal by Ginny Aiken.Priced To Move opens with gemologist, Andrea Adams hard at work for a less than thankful boss in New York's Diamond District. Though Andrea loves her field of work, she's struggling to find a sense of satisfaction in her current job. When her wacky Aunt Weeby breaks her leg, Andrea jumps on the opportunity to quit her job and move back to Louisville, Kentucky to care for her ailing aunt. Before Aunt Weeby leaves the hospital, Andie is offered a job as the jewelry host on the Shop Til U Drop, S.T.U.D., television shopping network where she is paired with a hunky but completely clueless about gems co-host, Max Matthews. Max is so clueless about gems that he torments Andie on the first taping of the show when he drops a princess cut diamond as easily as he'd drop a football. Andie considers this first day as a Shop Til U Drop co-host a complete and utter disaster, but the audience loves the chemistry between the pair. Andie, shocked at the audience's reaction, retrieves the precious diamond and rushes out of the building, but she doesn't get far. In the parking lot, Andrea realizes she doesn't need the responsibility and riskes involved in babysitting a three-carat treasure. Andie returns the diamond to the show's vault and this is where the mystery in the book begins as she discovers a dead body. At this point, the story picks up pace as Andie and Max travel to Myanmar to visit the country's mines and find themselves wrapped up in a mystery that leads to the solution of the murder. Priced To Move is contemporary and fun with a mystery to boot. It is not a rapid race to the finish suspense book but one written in a chick lit manner with a lot of introspection and self-discovery on the part of the main character. The supporting cast is quirky and odd, at times lending a cozy mystery feel to the book as well. |
Ginny Aiken's Bio
Former newspaper reporter Ginny Aiken discovered books at a very early age, writing her first novel at age fifteen. She is the author of the Silver Hills Trilogy, the Deadly Decor Mysteries, and Priced to Move. A frequent speaker at women's events and writers' conferences, Ginny lives with her husband and four sons in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Read more about Ginny at: http://www.ginnyaikenwrites.com
Suspense Books By Ginny
| A Steal of a
Deal, Shop-Til-U-Drop Series #2 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Ginny Aiken / Revell When gemologist Andrea Adams gets a chance to go to the Kashmir region of Pakistan for a mission trip, she jumps at it. But her boss at the S.T.U.D. home shopping network wants to turn the trip into another on-location shoot for the station. That means Andreas co-host Max is part of the deal, and she isn't happy about it. When their guide turns up dead and a famous sapphire turns up in Max's possession, Andrea thinks all her worst fears are confirmed. Is this her chance to get rid of this know-nothing pretty boy? Or is Max innocent after all? |
| Decorating Schemes,
Deadly Decor Mystery Series #2 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Ginny Aiken / Baker Haley Farrell's life is back on track. Cleared of any involvement in the murder of her best friend, Haley has found loyal decorating clients and has taken over a successful auction house. Life is good--even if she does have to deal with good-looking but infuriating general contractor Dutch Merrill once again. |
| Design on a Crime,
Deadly Décor Mystery Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Ginny Aiken / Baker Armed with an interior design certificate, Haley Farrell opens her own decorating business. Meeting new people is exciting-finding them dead is not. When her mentor, Marge Norwalk, is murdered, Haley becomes the prime suspect. What will she discover when she sets out to find the real killer? Book One in the Deadly Decor Mysteries. |
| Interior Motives,
Deadly De'cor Mystery Series #3 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Ginny Aiken /Baker Interior designer Haley and contractor Dutch clash over just about everything---but when their new client mysteriously dies, the creative cohorts are forced to stop sparring and start sleuthing! Can they solve the crime before they drive each other crazy? Find out in this lighthearted sequel to Design on a Crime and Decorating Schemes. 288 pages, softcover from Revell. |
| Married to
the MOB Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Ginny Aiken / Steeple Hill Books When FBI agent Dan Maddox agrees to protect "number one" on the mafia's hit list, he never imagines it will be Carlie Papperelli---the spitfire wife of a recently slain mob boss. Can he keep her alive long enough to testify? Only their faith in each other---and the Lord---will keep them safe. 250 pages, softcover from Steeple Hill. |
| Priced to
Move, Shop-Til-U-Drop Series #1 Click title to read excerpt or buy from CBD.com By Ginny Aiken / Revell Despite her plum job in New York's Diamond District, life has lost its sparkle for gemologist Andrea Adams. Swapping the Big Apple for bluegrass, she joins Louisville, Kentucky's S.T.U.D. television shopping network as its newest host. But between foul play, a hunky-but-clueless cohost, and ruby-hunting in Myanmar, is Andrea cut out for such multifaceted new settings? 304 pages, softcover from Revell. |
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Susan Sleeman
Susan Sleeman
is the author of Nipped in the Bud, available May of 2009 from Heartsong Presents: Mysteries, an imprint of Barbour Publishing.
