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MY REVIEW

Every once in a while I need a palette cleanser, an easy read to while away the hours, and a cozy mystery is always a good fit. That’s why I’m sharing Framed For Murder by Marla A White. a perfect fit for poolside reading.

I love dysfunctional and quirky characters, and we have a plentiful supply. We have a laugh out loud grandmother, who is a computer whiz, that makes a visit to the small town of Pine Cove. We have Poppy, a cat burglar and Mel, who is the main character. She was a cop in Los Angeles, until she was benched after an injury. We have Gregg Marks, the Deputy Sheriff, Jackson Thibodeaux, a love interest and owner of the Hungry Puppy, Liam, Mel’s brother, is in town to help with The Babbling Brook, Mel’s B&B, repairs. We gotta have a critter and we do. Chewbarka is a Labradoodle. All the requirements for a cozy mystery are in Framed For Murder.

We have plenty of mystery, murder, and crime, but I never felt a sense of urgency. I love to be so into the book that I race through the pages. Framed For Murder kept me reading, but I strolled through the pages, happy to find the answers in the author’s time.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Framed For Murder by Marla A White.

GOODREADS BLURB

After a life-changing injury, Mel O’Rourke trades in her badge for bed sheets, running a B & B in the quirky mountain town of Pine Cove. Her peaceful life is interrupted when an old frenemy, the notorious and charismatic cat burglar, Poppy Phillips, shows up on her doorstep, claiming she’s been framed for murder. While she’s broken plenty of laws, Mel knows she’d never kill anyone. Good thing she’s a better detective than she is a cook as she sets out to prove Poppy’s innocence.

The situation gets complicated, however, when the ruggedly handsome Deputy Sheriff Gregg Marks flirts with Mel, bringing him dangerously close to the criminal she’s hiding. And just when her friendship with café owner Jackson Thibodeaux blossoms into something more, he’s offered the opportunity of a lifetime in New Orleans. Should she encourage him to go, or ask him to stay? Who knew romance could be just as hard to solve as murder?

• Genre: Cozy Mysery, Fiction, Mystery
• 284 pages, Kindle Edition
• Expected publication June 17, 2024 by The Wild Rose Press

ABOUT MARLA A WHITE

Marla White started her illustrious career as a storyteller at the age of four by drawing on the TV screen to help Winky Dink get out of mortal danger, earning her a firm spanking. Deterred by the negative feedback, she studied to be a park ranger instead until she realized it was really a TV show about park rangers she liked, not the actual outdoors.

After a stint working in local TV as an assistant/hand model/ad copywriter and occasionally a camera operator, she came out west. Her first job was working for the producers of “A League of Their Own” but no, the character of Marla is not named after her. She’s been involved in several award winning television movies and was the head of television for Emmy Award winner Peter Tolan’s Fedora Entertainment. Additionally, she teaches story analysis and story workshop at UCLA Extension.

Appropriately, she found out on April Fool’s Day she’d sold her first book, “The Starlight Mint Surprise Murder” to Wild Rose Press.

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