Most housecleaners don’t do windows, but Tallie Graver loves leaving a pane of glass streak-free and sparkling. After a dirty divorce from a filthy-rich jerk, she's started her own cleaning business to make ends meet. On her latest job, prepping a renovated bed and breakfast for a grand re-opening, she's standing outside on a ladder, wiping off a grimy pane, when she spies a man on a bed through the glass. But the B&B isn't open for business yet—and the man's not sleeping. Her family owns the Graver Funeral Home, so Tallie knows a corpse when she sees one.
The victim is a shady building inspector with a reputation for handing out passing grades for a greased palm.With the local police resistant, Tallie launches her own investigation, before she gets a rep as a town crank. But it's going to take more than a squirt bottle and a squeegee to clean up this mess. With the help of her gal pal Gina, Tallie searches for a killer's motive. But she'd better be careful, or it'll be curtains for this window cleaner . . .
“An amusing new series with an engaging, spirited sleuth.”—Library Journal (Summary via Goodreads)
The Tallie Graver Mystery series by Misty Simon is a MUST READ !! The main story line is enough of a story but when there is a new murder in every book and with the story behind that murder, readers cannot help but love it !!
Tallie Graver has a pretty good life. She lives above the family business that her father keeps trying to get her to commit to full time. She doesn't want to work at the Graver's Funeral Home for the rest of her life, she is happy with her small cleaning business.....and solving murders. She has her boyfriend, Max, who lives in Washington D.C. currently and her best friend, Gina, who lives across the street. She is pretty contend with her life and readers would totally enjoy reading about all of that without Tallie getting involved when there is a murder in her town......but it does add speed to our page turning !!
In Deceased and Desist, the third book in the series, Max is in Hawaii for work and he did ask Tallie to go with him but because of her cleaning business, she was unable to go.....but once she sees a dead body laying on a bed in the inn that she is cleaning windows for, I'm sure she regretted that decision. When the coroner rules the death a heart attack but Tallie remembers clearly that the head looked wrong and the neck had to have been broken, she knows that she has to investigate. And to make matters worse or better (depends on the readers idea of it) Police Chief Burton is out on medical leave due to an injury so he has a replacement, Hammond, that dislikes Tallie from the very beginning. Those two butt heads worse that Tallie and Burton !! And when Burton calls Tallie and asks her to look into things, she can not believe it !!!
With Max out of town Tallie looks to Gina to be her side kick and Gina couldn't be happier until her new boyfriend, Tallie's brother, gets upset with her !! Readers will love that Gina and Jeremy are dating and we can only hope that maybe there will be a double wedding in the series ??
Deceased and Desist is an explosive story !! Blackmailing, secrets, murder, love, commitment, lies, family.....this story has it all and more !! And Tallie and Gina are right there in the middle of it !! I really like the Tallie and Max duo but Tallie and Gina working together is also a good fit !!
There is no way that readers will not love this series and with every book they read they fall deeper and deeper in love with Tallie and her life !! I cannot wait to see what trouble she gets into next....how about you ??
Review by Missi M.
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