
by Nancy Warren
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There’s nothing pretty about murder!Meet Toni Diamond, make up artist to middle America. She’s got a nose for trouble and a passion for solving mysteries. Imagine Columbo in a lavender suit. She never met a woman who wouldn’t look better with a little help from the Lady Bianca line of cosmetics. But don’t be fooled by appearances. Underneath the fake diamonds and the big hair is a sharp brain and a keen eye that sees the details as well as the funny side of life. When a Lady Bianca sales rep is murdered at the annual convention in Dallas, Toni is the one who notices things that some people, like sexy Detective Luke Marciano, might easily miss. Only someone who understands as much about how to make appearances deceiving could see into the mind of this killer -- a murderer who wants to give Toni a permanent makeover. Into a dead woman. At the sales convention, Toni has to deal with her arch rival Nicole Freedman, a woman who would stab Toni in the back if it would get her the coveted top sales award. She's got her own beauty consultants to encourage, her mother who's taken Dolly Parton as her pattern and her patron saint, her daughter Tiffany, who, at sixteen, is mortified by everything her mother does. Including breathing. In this humorous, cozy mystery, complete with a wily and entertaining amateur female sleuth, a sexy police officer, a murder or two, a little comedy and some racy scenes, a suburban cosmetics sales woman matches wits with a fiendish murderer. New York Times Bestselling author Lori Foster calls Nancy Warren's writing 'sexy and wonderfully witty.'
I was really enjoying the book and the characters, but then Ms Warren lost me when she just had to throw in the sex scene between Toni and Luke. Why is it that just about every writer now days has to make their book porn. Is it because they don't think that anyone will read their work without it? Take out the porn and you would have a good book.
Frosted Shadow, a Toni Diamond MysteryBy Nancy WarrenI had no expectations going into the reading of this book. I’d never heard of the author or the main character before, probably because this is the first book in the series (with the only other one I found being published in May of this year – 2014). It sounded like a fun, easy, no-heavy-thinking involved reading, and it was. First – great editing and proofreading. I only found one error – blondr for blonder at location 646 on my Kindle, in th
I love this book it has amazing details and out going thought this book is one of the most high track, mind thinking nail bitten book it all starts out with romantic comedy. There's nothing pretty about murder.Meet Toni Diamond, make up artist to middle America. She's got a nose for trouble and a passion for solving mysteries. Imagine Columbo in a lavender suit. She never met a woman who wouldn't look better with a little help from the Lady Bianca line of cosmetics. But don't be fooled by appear

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