Book Review: Pushin up Daisies by Carolyn Brown

By brucesbiblepage on July 23, 2024

Pushin' Up Daisies (A Black Swan Historical Romance, #1)

Pushin' Up Daisies by Carolyn Brown

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Wonderful story In keeping With the author's ability to research a location and a history, then weave in romance and mystery, you get a masterful tale of the period just after WW1. Everything is there: Spanish flu decimating families and small towns lots of men returning from war looking for jobs, right up to the red scare at the end; which was also historically accurate. Do you suppose she ever told him what happened to Bridget's abusive husband?

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Catherine O'Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O'Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father had been one of the first to succumb to the flu and her fiancé was killed in the war. And now there is a detective living at her hotel, the Black Swan, looking into the disappearance of her abusive brother-in-law. He is entirely the wrong person and it is absolutely the wrong time for her to be giving Detective Massey a second look, much less a third and fourth. She'll have to control the sparks that fly every time they are together.

Quincy Massey just wants to get the little job of finding Ralph Contiello done and go back home to Little Rock, Arkansas. The small town of Huttig is friendly enough but it sure isn't his type of town. And Catherine O'Shea with her smart remarks and red hair is getting under his skin entirely too much.

Quincy's unstoppable quest for the truth and Catherine's unflappable determination to keep it hidden immediately sets the two of them at odds. In order to look towards a future with its offer of unconditional love they'll first have to bury the past.

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