Tiaras & Texans
A Presley Thurman Mystery
By Laina Turner
Narrated By: Lee Ann Howlett
Presley wins a bet against her
boyfriend allowing her to finally work for his security company. Though she
starts the assignment especially excited knowing she will be good at this job
she ends up annoyed when she finds out that the job in question is to protect
beauty queens at a Texas pageant. Soon after beginning the job she and Cooper,
her boyfriend and now boss, find that this will be more than just protecting
the girls against childish pranks now they will have to find out who murdered
one of the girls before it happens again.
I absolutely loved Lee Ann Howlett’s
narration of this book. First off her characters where each distinct from the
low timber of cooper to the high pitched whine of some of the beauty pageant
contestants making the story come to life. What really made this an excellent
performance though weren’t just the different voices of her characters but also
the accents. I am a native Texan and so many times I come across audio books or
even on television where an actor or narrator will butcher the accent but Lee
Ann Howlett was spot on, I didn’t even cringe once. The story itself is a great
cozy mystery, which is a subgenre of crime fiction where the sex and
violence are downplayed or even portrayed humorously. (Thanks Wikipedia!) Laina Turner did a wonderful job with the
mystery aspect of the book not once did I suspect who had done it until the very
end which is great! You can tell this is not the first book in the series but
the fun of a cozy mystery is you don’t really have to start at the beginning
this book is no exception Laina Turner makes sure you can keep up with the
story from the very beginning. If you are a fan of cozy mysteries or even a
beginner I definitely recommend this book, and be sure to check out the great
audio book the narration makes it so much better.
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Thank you for the glowing review! I'm so glad you liked this book and my narration. I really enjoyed recording it -- it was a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Texas for three years when I was growing up and still have relatives there so that helped with the accents. :)
Thanks again,
Lee Ann Howlett