With the real estate world thriving and her daughter’s wedding around the corner, Cindy York is busier than ever. The bridal couple is searching for the home of their dreams and she's only too happy to help it become a reality.
When her daughter locates a house she wants to buy, Cindy is less than thrilled to discover that the listing agent is Hillary Ryder, a condescending snob who once dated Cindy's husband before they were married. For her daughter's sake, she decides to cooperate. But when Cindy arrives for the listing appointment and finds Hillary's lifeless body, she realizes her troubles are just beginning.
Cindy doesn’t want to get involved in another murder investigation, but it soon becomes apparent that someone doesn’t want this house to sell. What kind of secrets are lurking inside? Cindy is determined to close this deal, but she might die trying. (Summary via Goodreads)
One thing that I love when reading books in a series is how easily you glide into the story. As soon as you start reading a book in the series, you get the feeling like you are home and with the people you love. That is how I feel when I start reading a book in the Cindy York Mystery series by Catherine Bruns. Killer Under Contract is the sixth book in this series and hopefully you have read the previous books so that you also feel the connection. If not, you have time to catch up or just die right in with this book.
In Killer Undert Contract Cindy and her husband Greg are getting ready for their eldest daughter, Darcy, to walk down the aisle and marry the love of her life. But first they want to pick out their forever home and who better than to help but Darcy's own mother !! So while Cindy is keeping the house in order, making dinner for her family of 6, taking care of the family pets, working her realtor job, making sure everything is in order for the upcoming wedding, keeping her bride from getting too stressed, she will help find the house of her dreams. Unforunately she didn't know that the house of Darcy's dreams would have the realtor from Greg's past that he would like to keep in the past.
When Darcy finds the house she loves Cindy reaches out to the realtor and finds out that the agent is Greg's old high school sweetheart and ex-fiance, Hillary. Cindy's boss, Jacques, says that he will play interference but Cindy will have none of that and contacts her and sets up a meeting. It seems that Hillary has returned home after thirty years to try to win Greg back but before she can do that, Cindy finds her dead in the kitchen in Darcy's dream house.
There is no reason for Cindy and her partner in crime Jacques to look into the murder as it has no affect on Cindy but because her daughter still wants the house, they decide to team up as they have in the past and play Holmes and Watson and solve a murder .... again !!!
The Cindy York Mystery series is a great series to get lost into. You will love the every day happenings in the York family and love their close friends. Cindy and Jacques have an amazing relationship personally and professionally and you will long for that if you don't already have that in your life. Not to mention the love between Cindy and Greg and their relationships with the kids. And then you add a murder or two into the mix and you are hooked !!!
Bruns knows how to grab your attention immediately and you will be lost into the story and everything around you will fade away ..... but that's okay as long as you don't have dinner in the oven or water boiling on the stove. I highly recommend grabbing your copy of Killer Under Contract and all the previous books in you haven't read them yet ... you can thank me later.
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