Houses of Deception (The Madeline Dawkins Mystery Series Book 6) by Cynthia Hamilton – Review by Sherry Sharpnack
Houses of Deception by Cynthia Hamilton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Madeline and Mike Delaney run a husband-and-wife private detective business, as well as Madeline’s party-planning business.
Early the morning after an anniversary bash for a real estate power couple, Madeline is called by the husband to state that the wife is missing and the husband wants his wife found. Could Madeline and Mike help?
Just as M&M start investigating the wife’s, Tara’s, disappearance, the son of an old friend also disappears, and M&M’s PI business mentor asks them to help find the missing young man.
So the plot line switches back and forth between the two disappearances. Plots thicken, and M&M methodically work their cases.
I loved the art-heist dimension (stolen by the Nazis?) added to the missing young man’s case, and nothing was as it first appeared in either case.
This was a fun book ,b/c I did not ever know what was happening in either (all three, really) of the disappearances until the author started telegraphing possibilities. My only quibble is really my own fault: this is book #6 in a series, but the first I’d read. I think knowing more of the back story on Mike and Madeline would have helped.
Otherwise, a very enjoyable mystery.
