Author: Nanci Rathbun
Narrator: Kieren Calland Metts
Series: Angelina Bonaparte Mysteries, Book 2
Publisher: Dark Chocolate Press LLC
Released: Apr. 24, 2018
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Genre: Modern Detective; Mystery
A double murder. A mysterious inheritance. One PI is about to follow the money all the way into a den of thieves…
After surviving a bullet, Angelina Bonaparte was certain she could handle any case that came her way. But when her next client walks through the door with an unexplainable seven-figure inheritance after the death of her parents, the private investigator wonders if she’s in over her head. After all, when she visits her client’s family attorney, Angelina discovers yet another bloody crime scene.
With the help of her new flame, Angelina follows the clues into an underworld of war-plundered artifacts, stolen treasures, and deadly consequences. As their last lead grows colder, the PI must catch the killer before an endless cycle of murderous greed gets her client killed.
Cash Kills is the second book in the suspenseful Angelina Bonaparte Mysteries series. If you like hard-as-painted-nails female detectives, historical mysteries, and twists and turns you won’t see coming, then you’ll love Nanci Rathbun’s loaded crime thriller.
Buy Cash Kills to follow the money trail to a sassy, suspenseful mystery today!
This is the second volume in the Angelina Bonaparte Mysteries series, and I enjoyed it as much as, if not more than, the first volume. You don’t need to have listened to (or read) the first volume to understand what is going on, but some characters are easier to understand if you know the first book.
This time, we meet with a lot of the characters from the first volume, but the case Angelina is investigating is a lot more serious and dangerous than the first one.
This book is quite political, but it is not about US politics. It is about war, and what that does to people — the victims as much as the perpetrators.
Here, we deal with an especially heinous post war crime. In German, we’d say: Leichen pflastern seinen Weg, which means as much as that there is a high body count where the killer is near.
It isn’t obvious from the start who is the killer, and even once it is, it takes a while to understand what exactly is behind all of this.
Angelina herself is a lot happier than she was when we got to know her, and there is a reason for that (which I won’t go into).
She is still very much obsessed with her clothes and her looks, and again all those detailed descriptions are totally lost on me, but that is the only beef I have with the story.
Again, there’s a quotation at the beginning of each chapter, and again, I was tempted to look them up. I like this way to start a chapter.
The characters become more distinguished, especially Angelina’s love interest.
Once again, Kieren Calland Metts does a perfect job at narrating the story.
Now, I can’t judge the pronunciation of the Polish words and words in the other foreign languages, but they sounded good to me. My impression was, that Kieren has done her homework and informed herself about the pronunciation.
Again, I enjoyed listening to this book and would recommend it to anyone who loves a good detective story/mystery.
I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Nanci Rathbun. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
Nanci Rathbun is a lifelong reader of mysteries – historical, contemporary, futuristic, paranormal, hard-boiled, cozy … you can find them all on her bookshelves. She brings logic and planning to her writing from a background as an IT project manager, and attention to characters and dialog from her second career as a Congregationalist minister.
Nanci grew up an Army brat, living in Germany, France and Korea, as well as several states in the U.S. After her dad retired from the service, the family settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There, Nanci raised her daughter and son, while working at AT&T. She never expected to move, but when her second grandchild was on the way, she wanted to be closer. One of her greatest joys is hearing her three granddaughters shout ‘Nana’ when she comes in their front door in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Nanci’s Maltipoo, Teeny, and she now live in Wellington, Colorado. No matter where she makes her home, she will always be a Green Bay Packers fan.
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Kieren Calland Metts is addicted to audiobooks. She has almost 1,000 in her Audible.com library and has listened to most of them! She tends toward mysteries of all kinds, especially cozies, and YA dystopia.
She grew up a diplomat brat, traveling to tours in Baghdad, Iraq; and Kabul, Afghanistan. After several more moves in the U.S., the family settled in Ohio.
Kieren has a background in copy editing, book & newspaper design, and web production; adores arts and crafts; and has a weakness for fluffy orange kitties.
BOOK ONE
Oct. 16th:
Bound 4 Escape
The Book Junkie Reads . . .
Oct. 17th:
Dab of Darkness Book Reviews
A Page to Turn
Hall Ways Blog
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Turning Another Page
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T’s Stuff
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The Book Addict’s Reviews
Page Princess
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Book Addict
Jazzy Book Reviews
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BOOK TWO
Oct. 23rd:
The Book Junkie Reads . . .
Lynn’s Romance Enthusiasm
Oct. 24th:
Dab of Darkness Book Reviews
A Page to Turn
Oct. 25th:
Bound 4 Escape
Blätterflüstern
Oct. 26th:
Jazzy Book Reviews
Oct. 27th:
2 Girls and A Book
Turning Another Page
Page Princess
Oct. 28th:
Writers N Authors
Book Addict
T’s Stuff
Oct. 29th:
Lilly’s Book World
The Book Addict’s Reviews
Hall Ways Blog
BOOK THREE
Oct. 30th:
Dab of Darkness Book Reviews
The Book Junkie Reads . . .
Oct. 31st:
Jazzy Book Reviews
A Page to Turn
Nov. 1st:
Turning Another Page
Nov. 2nd:
2 Girls and A Book
Nov. 3rd:
Writers N Authors
Book Addict
Page Princess
T’s Stuff
Nov. 4th:
Bound 4 Escape
Lynn’s Romance Enthusiasm
Nov. 5th:
Lilly’s Book World
The Book Addict’s Reviews
Blätterflüstern
Hall Ways Blog
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