Book #59 |
Book: Anxious in Nevada | Author: Diana Xarissa | |
| Source: Free BookBub download Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 206 | Duration: 07/25/25 – 07/26/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: fiction, cozy mystery | ||
| 📕10-word summary: A woman’s airplane seatmate gets murdered and she’s sucked in. 🖌6-word review: Easy read. Typical cozy mystery. Satisfying. |
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| 💭Favorite quote: “That mother of his looks as if she’d eat her children for profit.” | |||
| Description:* I’m Holly Parker, and on my 50th birthday I decided to stop adding things to my bucket list and start crossing a few items off instead. Visiting all 50 states was at the top of the list. A low-cost, direct flight to Las Vegas was exactly what I needed. After chatting with the couple in the seats next to mine on the flight, I was happy to arrive in Vegas and go straight to bed. My body clock, not yet reset to Vegas time, had me awake and eager to explore very early the next morning. I’d barely finished my breakfast, though, before I stumbled over a dead body. What are the odds that the victim would turn out to be the man I’d sat next to on my flight? Why is his former fiancée suddenly trying to be my best friend? And how do I convince the local police that I had nothing to do with his murder?*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This was a super easy and fast read, and I’m always happy to read a book I downloaded over a year ago, but just hadn’t gotten to yet. I’d never heard of this author, and this is the first book in her Midlife Crisis Mystery Series comprising 6 titles to date, and whose titles are of the schema “[Emotion] in [State]” and presumably going down the alphabet for the emotions: Anxious in Nevada, Bewildered in Florida, Confused in Pennsylvania, Dazed in Colorado, Exhausted in Ohio, and Frustrated in Massachusetts. If it were me, I’d’ve gone for alliteration of the emotion and the state, so perhaps: Nervous in Nevada, Fun in Florida, Pensive in Pennsylvania, Confused in Colorado, Ostracized in Ohio, and Morose in Massachusetts. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
