Monday, April 21, 2025

WRITTEN IN SECRET (The Art of Love and Danger #1) by Crystal Caudill, Reviewed by Rebecca Maney

THE ART OF LOVE AND DANGER SERIES Book #1

REBECCA'S REVIEW
"I wasn't flirting. I was being witty and charming. I have to test, on occasion, what my heroines say, just so I know what a man's real reaction would be."


"Everything is research. Including flirting."
   . . . okaaay . . . crime novelist Lydia Pelton has just completed a first person case study in unsuccessfully evading arrest for . . . stealing a three legged goat from the circus??? In the middle of the night? Getting caught up in an actual crime scene and thwarting Officer Abraham Hall's chance to apprehend an honest to goodness thief? As ludicrous as it sounds . . . that about sums it up . . . her trip to jail, wearing trousers and face paint (posing as a clown, breaking out into hives, what were she and Theresa thinking, they weren't) . . . and best of all, being introduced to a classic version of officer "swoony".

The woman was insufferable . . . what a night. . . . "of course he had been accosted by a clown. He hated clowns." Lydia Pelton was trouble personified with those big brown eyes and unruly curls, the combination could drive a man to distraction. Fortunately, or in Abraham's case unfortunately, lurking beneath that attractive surface was a keen mind and a brilliant pen, yet unknown to Abraham, Lydia's stories were about to spawn a series of murders exactly as she had so carefully written them. Abraham Hall had not seen the last of Lydia Pelton.

Brilliant, just brilliant! Loaded with wit, charm, and carefully concealed criminal activity, this romantic mystery dissects the power of the pen while effectively revealing God's mercy and grace through two fumbling, bumbling humans who keep landing sided by side (or in some cases on top of each other, now that's a story all by itself! ) until "there is no need to write in secret anymore".

This new series is off to a grand beginning!
 
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BackCover Blurb:
What happens when fiction becomes reality? In the corruption-infested Queen City, danger lurks in every shadow, but Lydia Pelton refuses to stay silent. She writes under a pseudonym, E. A. Dupin, crafting crime novels to exact justice and right the wrongs she sees in society. When a serial killer decides to be the sword to her pen, Lydia is confronted with the consequences of her words. Four men are dead, and the city blames her.

With murders on the rise, Officer Abraham Hall's only lead is Lydia's fiction, and he is thrust into an investigation with the "Killer Queen of Romance." Despite his misgivings about the woman, he realizes that even with his reputation for catching elusive criminals, he needs her help. But his unexpected attraction to Lydia proves as difficult to manage as the woman herself.

As the mystery unfolds, Abraham and Lydia race to rewrite the ending, not only for Cincinnati's citizens, but for their own hearts too.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Kregel Publishing, March, 2025
Available in digital ebook or paperback

 





 

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