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Murder, Curlers, and Cream: A Valentine Beaumont Mystery (The Murder, Curlers Series Book 1) by [McFarlane, Arlene]

Murder, Curlers, and Cream: A Valentine Beaumont Mystery (The Murder, Curlers Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Arlene McFarlane (Author)

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“Smart, entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny!” —Liliana Hart, New York Times Bestselling Author

Valentine Beaumont is a beautician with a problem. Not only has she got a meddling mother, a wacky staff, and a dying business, but now she’s got a dead client who was strangled while awaiting her facial.

With business the way it is, combing through this mystery may be the only way to save her salon. Until a second murder, an explosion, a kidnapping, death threats, and the hard-nosed Detective Romero complicate things. But Valentine will do anything to untangle the crime. That’s if she can keep her tools of the trade in her bag, keep herself alive, and avoid falling for the tough detective.

In the end, how hard can that be?

Length: 292 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Print Length: 292 pages
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Publisher: ParadiseDeer Publishing (8 November 2016)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B01M3RMQMG
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Lots of fun

17 April 2018

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This is a cozy with a difference in that there's a good mystery and plot, whilst typical for this genre, the book is light on character development, it still manages to create credible characters . My only complaint is that the heroine was such a klutz and borderline on dizzy.

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Robynne

Ideal rainy weekend entertainment.

4 May 2018

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Captivating, amusing, addictive weekend read.

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Susan

Too much chatter

17 April 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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I managed to finish this book but it wasn't easy. The premise was good but the endless chatter was crazy. I still don't know much about the heroine except she is supposed to be sexy looking, likes gaudy clothes and is incapable of making a reasonable decision. I get that it's supposed to be funny and quirky but if one of your stylists knocked out a customer you would fire her no matter what death bed promises you made. The whole book was so superficial. The love interest had no real interaction with Val. Why would he fall for her. The only character who remotely had a personality was Max, her fellow stylist. Why did she use to afford Jimmy Choos but can't now. Why is she so indecisive and against men. Why would anyone go to her salon. There was a lot of unrealized potential here but not enough that I would get book 2.

23 people found this helpful.

jeg

Another silly amateur investigator (this one owns a salon). Spoilers ahead!

18 April 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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I thought this book had great promise when I read the description and I did finish it. However, the main character was flighty and irritating. Her best friend/employee Max was the best character in the book. I knew and understood more about him than I did Valentine.

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW:
I find it incredible that this woman is actually a business owner as she seems to have no concept on how to run a business. She usually doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment and doesn't seem to understand the concept of liability. Because of a promise made to a family member, she employs a distant cousin who is hateful to everyone, repeatedly insults customers, destroys equipment, and actually injures customers. Yet she is not fired for that, but is fired for calling another employee stupid. In the real world and even most fictional worlds, she would have lost her shop to lawsuits for damages some time ago. As far as the crime is concerned, she keeps receiving threats and doesn't share them immediately with the police. In fact, after receiving one threat, rather than telling the detective in charge about it, she wonders what he will share with her about the case.

The ending was actually decent, if somewhat expected, as the least likely person is the murderer. However, the final scenes are much better than the rest of the book and may indicate future books will be better. I won't know because I am done with this author.

14 people found this helpful.

No love lost for Valentine

6 June 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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I just couldn't like this despite hoping to; I really wanted to get on board with the new backdrop of a hair/beauty salon in this genre. I can understand trying to make the main character, Valentine, relatable - and wanting the bumbling idiot cousin to provide comic relief, but both failed for me. Max, despite the obvious cliche, was the most likeable, followed by the elderly twins. I respected what the author was attempting, but it fell flat for me.

However, my real problem, which will prevent me from trying the next in the series, was the killer. I suspected who it was in Chapter two. In chapter five, I was certain. Disappointing. I Did read the entire book, but that speaks more to my compulsion to finish and a desire to unknowingly stumble into a twist that never came than the quality of the writing or plot.

4 people found this helpful.

S. Thomas

Don't try so hard

24 May 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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I wanted to love this book. However, there were too many unnecessary characters and plot points. I want twists and turns but I kept feeling like I didn't know who anybody was. Also, if you're hinting at a romance for the entire book, give us more than a quick chapter at the end to satisfy our curiosity. It also drove me nuts about all the references to a previous murder (was it a previous book?). If I wanted to know more about that murder, I'd read about it. Stick to your story line and stay on your current focus. But a fun, funny beach read overall.

4 people found this helpful.

Kay Hudson

Valentine meets murder

13 March 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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Arlene McFarlane’s Murder, Curlers & Cream introduces Valentine Beaumont, beautician and amateur detective. It’s not that Valentine wants to be a sleuth—she’s already trying to live down a past incident involving a killer and a perm rod—but she’s got problems. Business is down, the mortgage on her salon is due, and she’s short of rent money. She’s also saddled with the world’s worst employee, a distant cousin she can’t quite bring herself to fire, despite regular disasters, and a rival salon owner trying to poach her best employee. But all that takes a back seat to the client waiting for a facial, found dead with an electric cord around her throat.

Desperate to restore her salon’s good reputation (before the bank forecloses on the shop and her landlord kicks her out of her house), Valentine sets out to solve the case, armed only with her bag of beauty tools. Her plan leads to more problems, not the least of which is handsome police detective Mike Romero, who thinks Valentine should stick to the beauty business.

She tries, but between a fire, an explosion, and another murder, she can’t seem to avoid trouble. This is a delightful first installment of Valentine’s adventures. And by the time you finish reading about the potential weaponization of various beauty products, you may think twice before your next salon visit.

10 people found this helpful.

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