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January 8, 2011 By
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.

Priced to Move (Shop-Til-U-Drop, Book 1)
Priced to Move (Shop-Til-U-Drop, Book 1)
by Ginny Aiken
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Review – Priced to Move
Reviewed by Susan Sleeman
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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.
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Susan Sleeman


Susan Sleeman SUSAN SLEEMAN grew up in a small Wisconsin town where she spent her summers reading Nancy Drew and developing a love of mystery and suspense books. Today, she channels this enthusiasm into hosting the popular internet website TheSuspenseZone.com and writing romantic suspense and mystery novels.

Much to her husband’s chagrin, Susan loves to look at everyday situations and turn them into murder and mayhem scenarios for future novels. If you’ve met Susan, she has probably figured out a plausible way to kill you and get away with it. Don’t worry, she’d never follow through on it.

Her GARDEN GATE MYSTERY series featuring landscape designer Paige Turner, debuted in October 2010 with NIPPED IN THE BUD in Barbour Books Hometown Mysteries line. The second book, READ BETWEEN THE TINES released in e-book format in the Spyglass Lane Mystery series in February of 2012.

Her first romantic suspense novel, featuring the Morgan Brothers, released with Ryan’s story in HIGH-STAKES INHERITANCE , Russ’s story in BEHIND THE BADGE and the Reid’s story in THE CHRISTMAS WITNESS.

This year Susan’s latest series about five adopted siblings who leave law enforcement to form a private investigations firm called the Justice Agency will debut with DOUBLE EXPOSURE in June and in November, DEAD WRONG will release.

Susan currently lives in Florida, but has had the pleasure of living in nine states. Her husband is a church music director and they have two beautiful daughters, a very special son-in-law and an adorable grandson. In her spare time, you can find her traveling to Oregon to visit her children and grandson, reading, gardening or working on TheSuspenseZone.com. To learn more about Susan, please visit her website, or follow on Twitter and Facebook.
 
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