You don't mess with the Kidd') comes across as silly rather than convincing, and the intelligence Kidd must have had to succeed in her field is sadly absent in her avocation as amateur sleuth. National bestselling author Diane Vallere delivers your. To access more Cozy Mystery Books Recommendations, click on this link P.S. Her bravado ('Some crazy killer out there was going about to learn one thing. Read Designer Dirty Laundry A Samantha Kidd Mystery by Diane Vallere available from Rakuten Kobo. Designer Dirty Laundry is the first book in the feel-good Samantha Kidd mystery series. Diane Vallere: Samantha Kidd Mystery Series I will list the authors and series that have been recommended, but I urge you to read the comments below so you can see the reasons other Cozy Mystery readers thought these were their best reads of the month. Patrick's scheduled involvement in an upcoming design competition%E2%80%94he was to be one of the judges%E2%80%94is one of several motives Kidd investigates.

Determined to restore her reputation, Kidd sets about playing detective. With the only person able to verify her employer dead, and no actual body to examine, the police are naturally skeptical of her story. But the first day at her new job couldn't be worse: she finds her fashion director boss, Patrick, dead in an elevator, and after the EMTs arrive to transport the corpse, the body vanishes.

Samantha Kidd takes a professional gamble%E2%80%94leaving her secure job as senior buyer of ladies' designer shoes in New York City to become the trend specialist at Traveda%E2%80%94a family owned company in her hometown of Ribbon, Pa. Vallere's decades of experience in the fashion industry don't quite translate into entertaining storytelling in this middling cozy.

Designer Dirty Laundry by Diane Vallere