Sex, Murder and a Double Latte

Sex, Murder and a Double Latte is a fun mystery chick lit that will have you staying up through the night! Sophie Katz, a sassy mystery writer, becomes the target of a killer who is using her book as a means to determine how she will die. With the help of her unconventional friends (a sex toy shop owner, the ditzy-but sweet-Mary Ann, and a fashionable gay hairstyist with a quick wit), she must find the killer before the killer finds her. Of course, her new, sexy Russian boyfriend might be the prime suspect. Kind of puts a damper on Sophie's sex life. Kyra's debut novel is told in an entertaining, unique and absolutely fun way! Sophie is hip, strong and will have you cheering her on. This book is must read for any fan of the chick lit genre!

It took me a while to get into the new Mystery Chick lit sub-genre, but now that I am in it, I'm hooked - completely, for which I have Red Dress Ink to thank so far! "Sex, Murder and a Double Latte" by Kyra Davis is the third such release from Red Dress Ink - and I hope there are many more to come. Our main heroine Sophie Katz is a mystery-writer with quite an imagination. She has just about completed her latest novel when she hears the bad news: famous movie producer Michael Tolsky has committed suicide. Sophie thinks it is odd that his "suicide" was done just as a scene in his movie was done. Also, Tolsky was supposed to be making one of Sophie's books into a movie. Needless to say, she is a bit upset. Things don't get much better when other people begin dropping like flies around her - and their deaths begin resembling scenes from one of her bestselling novels. Around the same time, Sophie begins finding tiny clues that someone is following her around and breaking into her apartment. Things such as a broken glass in the middle of her kitchen floor and a book out of place in her bookcase that she knows she didn't touch. When her car is completely vandalized, Sophie knows that someone is out to get her - using methods she described in her book. The question is, who is doing it? There is a wide array of people to choose from, such as the hunky, difficult Russian guy named Anatoly who has recently moved into her neighborhood (and on whom she has a crush). There is also: the brain-damaged neighbor who seems to have a crush on her; her gay best friend Marcus, who has a new love; her friend Dena's new boyfriend Jason, who is very suspiciously into vampires. Will Sophie make it out of this mystery alive, without losing any loved ones (or her sanity) in the process? "Sex, Murder and a Double Latte" was a totally addictive read that I simply could not put down. Sophie as a main character is great - she is very funny, sharp and realistic. The other characters that color the pages are also amusing. A lot of the dialogue in this book is laugh-out-loud funny, and Kyra Davis kept me guessing until the very end who the killer was. With such a solid, suspenseful and witty story line, I could find very little wrong with this book, except that the main character has the annoyingly stereotypical gay best friend and quirky cat. Also, the dumb-as-bricks police force bit was a little overdone. However, this novel was so good that these things didn't matter very much. Overall, I highly recommend any mystery and/or chick lit fan to give this book a read. Just don't start it too late at night, or you'll be up reading all night!

This is a book that is fun to curl up with, and is hard to put down. The characters are all people that you would love to spend time with, and Sophie Katz, the protaganist is the best thing to come down the pike since Stephanie Plum. She is sassy, witty and utterly delightful...and to top it off Davis writes some killer dialogue.