To coach a killer by Victoria Laurie

Description

Soaking up a luxurious new chapter alongside her saucy bestie, Cat Cooper plans on emerging as the premier life coach in East Hampton by summertime. All she has to do is survive an offseason replete with desolate beaches, slow business, and murder . . . 

 

As the Hamptons drags through early spring, Cat’s shot at becoming the toast of the town in time for Memorial Day is dwindling—and fast. The only client she can find has been housebound for decades and claims to be the victim of a devasting curse. Then there’s the matter of Detective Shepherd’s intense jealousy over Maks Grinkov, the handsome bad boy who approaches Cat with an unusual offer she can’t stop thinking about. Havoc finally breaks loose when a string of murders rocks the coastal community, landing Maks on the hook as the culprit . . . 

 

While the body count rises, Cat goes from life coaching to sleuthing for the truth about Maks’s less-than-wholesome background. But after digging deeper, she questions if Detective Shepherd had an unwitting hand in a related homicide case after tangling with the wrong people. With a storm approaching shore and no one to trust, Cat and her sharp-tongued best friend, Gilley, must solve a client’s curse and a series of violent deaths before a killer sends them all sailing to their doom . . .

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I will start with saying that this book was so good and unexpected in so many ways. 

It's great written and the characters are so well fleshed that i want to be her friend in real life. As for the villain in the story, the author managed to trick me into liking him a lot, without even knowing because his way of doing things and the psychological level games he played are really great and challenging on all levels that made it hard not to fall for it.

What i didn't like? The cover! I just can't stand the cartoonish ones and more so because i know that many readers like me will judge a book by its cover and it's a shame it this story goes not chosen because of that small but decisive element.

All my opinions are my own. Arc provided by the publisher through Netgalley