A Body to Die For by Kate White
>> Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Series: #2 in the Bailey Weggins series
Genre: Mystery / Chick Lit (is Chick Mystery a genre?)
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 365
Challenges: TBR 2009 Challenge Alternate #1
This series is somewhere between a mystery series and a chick lit series. Good for when I need something a little mindless to blast through quickly without being too far into the Chick lit realm.
Bailey Weggins is a free lance writer who has a fairly regular contract as the crime writer for a women’s magazine. She’s invited to spend a weekend in the Berkshires at the country inn/ spa owned by a friend of her mother’s. Bailey’s plan is for a nice weekend to get away from Manhattan to relax and figure out whether she’s really over her recent relationship. She’ll meet with her friend’s spa manager to talk about how to better publicize the inn with some of Bailey’s contacts in the publishing business.
Nice plan, but the first night at the inn ends with Bailey discovering a dead woman wrapped up like a mummy in one of the treatment rooms at the spa. Of course Bailey can’t help but start her own investigation ‘to help out her friend’.
It’s a pretty typical light mystery series. Not something I’d want a steady diet of, but worth picking up when I need a quick light book. I won’t be in any hurry to read the next book in the series, but I probably will sometime down the road.
Genre: Mystery / Chick Lit (is Chick Mystery a genre?)
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 365
Challenges: TBR 2009 Challenge Alternate #1
This series is somewhere between a mystery series and a chick lit series. Good for when I need something a little mindless to blast through quickly without being too far into the Chick lit realm.
Bailey Weggins is a free lance writer who has a fairly regular contract as the crime writer for a women’s magazine. She’s invited to spend a weekend in the Berkshires at the country inn/ spa owned by a friend of her mother’s. Bailey’s plan is for a nice weekend to get away from Manhattan to relax and figure out whether she’s really over her recent relationship. She’ll meet with her friend’s spa manager to talk about how to better publicize the inn with some of Bailey’s contacts in the publishing business.
Nice plan, but the first night at the inn ends with Bailey discovering a dead woman wrapped up like a mummy in one of the treatment rooms at the spa. Of course Bailey can’t help but start her own investigation ‘to help out her friend’.
It’s a pretty typical light mystery series. Not something I’d want a steady diet of, but worth picking up when I need a quick light book. I won’t be in any hurry to read the next book in the series, but I probably will sometime down the road.
No stars – I couldn’t even finish it
1 star – I didn’t like it but I managed to finish it.
2 stars – It was OK. Not good, but seriously just OK.
3 stars - I liked it. I didn’t think it was great, but I thought it was good entertainment.
4 stars – I really liked it. I really think you might like it too.
5 stars – It was amazing. I’d recommend this to just about anyone.
3 comments:
That's exactly how I felt about this book as well... nothing that I will jump up and run out and get but a pleasant filler if I run across the next one in the series.
Hi there! Love your blog and was just wondering if I could get your e-mail to shoot you a question? Thanks!
Kristie: you put it perfectly. There's definitely at time and place in the mix for this kind of book.
Janny: can't you just ask here?
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