Island of Last Resorts
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Private investigator Kate Weller knows her co-workers are in serious trouble when she is unable to reach them in the third enthralling Marked for Retribution mystery.
Kate Weller’s boss, Nate Price, has some exciting news: Julian Frazier, a friend of one of the agency’s wealthy clients, has invited the Nate Price Investigations team and their partners on a trip of a lifetime to his home on Elysian Island, an exclusive retreat off the Georgian coast.
But there’s a catch. Frazier has written his own murder mystery script, and the PIs must work out whodunnit. As they’re about to discover, though, the murder Frazier wants them to solve is a real cold case, and there's a killer twist that isn't in the script . . .
Unable to reach Elysian Island and her co-workers, Kate is sure that someone wants her to stay away. Can she stop a ruthless killer and uncover the truth behind a deadly game?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A tedious romance and a penchant on the author's part to slap on backstory with a trowel weigh down Ellis's plodding third outing for PI Kate Weller (after Sweet Taste of Revenge). Kate, who has returned to Charleston, S.C., and to her boyfriend, chef Eric Manfredi, receives a message from her boss, Nate Price, inviting her and the rest of the Price Agency investigative team to an all-expenses-paid getaway on Elysian, a private island off the Georgia coast, owned by Julian Frazier. All Frazier asks in return is that the operatives participate in a murder mystery game. Of course, the only way to get to Elysian is on Frazier's private yacht. Kate is delayed, and, by the time she arrives, several people have been murdered and her remarkably dull-witted colleagues are fighting for their lives. Clunky prose doesn't help ("she loved one man of Italian heritage more than life itself"). This tiresome romantic mystery is a haphazard collection of clich s.
