Book Description:As Philadelphia’s premier image consultant, Allison Campbell helps others reinvent themselves, but her most successful transformation was her own after a scandal nearly ruined her. Now she moves in a world of powerful executives, wealthy, eccentric ex-wives and twisted ethics.
When Allison’s latest Main Line client, the fifteen-year-old Goth daughter of a White House hopeful, is accused of the ritualistic murder of a local divorce attorney, Allison fights to prove her client’s innocence when no one else will. But unraveling the truth brings specters from her own past. And in a place where image is everything, the ability to distinguish what’s real from the façade may be the only thing that keeps Allison alive.
Part of the Henery Press Mystery Series Collection, if you like one, you'll probably like them all! KILLER IMAGE is the first in the Allison Campbell mystery series.
My Thoughts:
This was a good book. Allison Campbell is an image consultant. She is successful and now has been pulled into a tangled web! Her client, a fifteen year old daughter of a hopeful politician, Maggie is the center of it all. While Allison is all for helping her clients change their appearance and help their self-image, Maggie is the main suspect in a murder investigation. No one else seems to care if Maggie is railroaded, but Allison won't let that happen. She will put herself in danger to prove Maggie's innocence.
I really liked Allison. She isn't just someone who is telling women they are in need of a makeover and parading them around. She has gone through her own personal transformation and now wants to help others. The fact that she was determined to make sure Maggie wasn't railroaded was great. The author does a great job with her secondary characters and making them real but fit into their roles so completely. Mystery along with some romance in this one!
I rate this a 4/5. It was an amazing start to a series I intend to read more of!
Thank you to the author/publisher for the review copy of this book (via Pumpupyourbook). I received this book in exchange for an honest review and the opinions stated above are 100% mine.
Thanks for the review, sounds like a good read.
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I like the idea of the book. I know image is everything nowadays and I can see how that can be a good premise for the book.
ReplyDeleteGreat review
Ruty@Reading...Dreaming
Thanks for hosting KILLER IMAGE on your blog!
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ReplyDeleteI really need to get into reading more. I used to read daily, now I am lucky if I finish a book every month.
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ReplyDeleteI'll have to add this to my book list and pick up a copy when I get time. I love a good mystery series and this one sounds like it has some interesting twists to it.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that the client is 15. I like that twist, it makes it unusual and probably very fun to read.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this review! I like the idea behind this book.
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ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a book I would love to read, I love suspense books. Something about someone helping to protect someone that nobody else seems to care about seems to be the main type of suspense/thriller books I read.
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ReplyDeleteTiffany
Sounds like a good thriller! I need to get back on the reading wagon and this looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteVery nice. Poor girl though forced to struggle to live. Sounds amazing.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a book that would grab me and hold me until the end! Might even make a great movie with this story line!
ReplyDeleteI like books that have great suspence. It does sound like one that could be made into a movie.
ReplyDeleteSounds very interesting to me... I'm a fan of suspense but not violence.. :-)
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ReplyDeleteI love that you can see that kind of transformation in the character, sounds like a great read.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a thrilling book! Great review
ReplyDeleteDear Ashley,
ReplyDeleteI read your review of Wendy Tyson book Killer Image and feel that you did a great job. In my judgment, your review was balanced, fair and well-thought out. You have demonstrated a justified objectivity, giving a reader a clear impression of what to expect from the novel. I will be following your other reviews with interest.
Thanks!