{"id":26977,"date":"2021-02-12T07:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T12:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=26977"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:57:32","slug":"review-hiss-h-for-homicide-by-t-c-lotempio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/review-hiss-h-for-homicide-by-t-c-lotempio\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \ud83d\udd0d Hiss H for Homicide by T.C. LoTempio"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-26977\" data-postid=\"26977\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-26977 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_bbbcac8 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_49667e8 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_7036296 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hiss-h-for-homicide-tc-lotempio.jpg?w=640\" title=\"Review \ud83d\udd0d Hiss H for Homicide by T.C. LoTempio\" alt=\"Review \ud83d\udd0d Hiss H for Homicide by T.C. LoTempio\">\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_a1982ef customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Never one to turn away from a challenge\u2014even when it goes against her better judgment\u2014Nora Charles can hardly say no when an old friend of her mother\u2019s comes to town seeking her help. The author of steamy romances has learned that her writing partner is severing their relationship and threatening to reveal dark and dirty secrets in a tell-all, and she pleads with Nora to intervene. Reluctantly agreeing to help, Nora pays a visit to the writing partner, ready to make her case\u2014right up until the moment she discovers the woman\u2019s lifeless body.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">With the police convinced that Nora\u2019s friend is the culprit, she and Nick begin delving into the dead woman\u2019s past and her provocative tell-all. It soon becomes apparent that the woman had a knack for digging up dirt and wasn\u2019t shy about exposing skeletons in closets, and before long Nora has a seemingly endless list of suspects who were at risk of having their darkest secrets revealed. With a police force intent on throwing the book at Nora\u2019s friend and time running out, she and Nick must outwit a dangerous killer before they take their own secrets to the grave . . .<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_23787e9 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2d1ea91  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16467 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3_5-hearts.jpg?resize=146%2C44\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong> Feb 9, 2021<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>A Nick and Nora Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:<\/strong> 4<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Beyond the Page<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $4.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/><br \/><br \/>Nora Charles<\/strong> gets a call from Desiree Sanders, a friend of her deceased mother. Desiree is one half of a successful romance writing team. Desiree thinks the other half, Marlene McCambridge, is planning to end the partnership and she wants Nora to find out why. Nora agrees to speak to Marlene, but discovers the woman\u2019s dead body. Nora learns that Marlene had been planning to write a gossipy tell-all, revealing secrets of her friends and rivals. Nora and her feline partner,<strong> Nick<\/strong>, launch their own investigation to find out if someone had secrets worth killing for.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s been a few years since the prior book in this series and I was excited to see Nora and Nick\u2019s adventures are continuing. The premise of the book with a smart cat finding ways to communicate with Nora to help solve crime is reminiscent of Lilian Jackson Braun\u2019s Cat Who&#8230; Series. This part of the book is well-done with Nick\u2019s abilities coming across as amazing and fun and not too whimsical. The plot is interesting and the book starts out really good with Nora tracking down possible suspects in Marlene\u2019s murder. Things bog down towards the middle with no real progress being made in the investigation and Nora making poor decisions.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nora is dating an FBI agent and seems to still be attracted to a high school boyfriend who is now a police detective. In spite of this, Nora withholds her theories, plans, and even evidence from both of them and puts herself into dangerous situations from which her cat has to rescue her. Things start getting a little too unbelievable, but then Nora seems to learn from her mistakes and gets smarter about how she proceeds with her sleuthing. The story quickly turns around for an exciting ending. In fact, in spite of some disappointments in this book, developments at the end of the story have me already anticipating the next book in this charming series.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Christine<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_eb0616c customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3p89IQw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/hiss-h-for-homicide\/id1545399182?itsct=books_toolbox&amp;itscg=30200&amp;at=11l88k&amp;ct=books_hiss_h_for_homicide&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/hiss-h-for-homicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/T_C_LoTempio_Hiss_H_for_Homicide?id=xqYPEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to turn away from a challenge\u2014even when it goes against her better judgment\u2014Nora Charles can hardly say no when an old friend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,89,48],"tags":[148,223,367],"class_list":["post-26977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beyond-the-page","category-christine","category-reviews","tag-3-5-stars","tag-cozy-mystery","tag-mystery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review \ud83d\udd0d Hiss H for Homicide by T.C. 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LoTempio\" alt=\"Review \ud83d\udd0d Hiss H for Homicide by T.C. LoTempio\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Never one to turn away from a challenge\u2014even when it goes against her better judgment\u2014Nora Charles can hardly say no when an old friend of her mother\u2019s comes to town seeking her help. The author of steamy romances has learned that her writing partner is severing their relationship and threatening to reveal dark and dirty secrets in a tell-all, and she pleads with Nora to intervene. Reluctantly agreeing to help, Nora pays a visit to the writing partner, ready to make her case\u2014right up until the moment she discovers the woman\u2019s lifeless body.<br \/><br \/>With the police convinced that Nora\u2019s friend is the culprit, she and Nick begin delving into the dead woman\u2019s past and her provocative tell-all. It soon becomes apparent that the woman had a knack for digging up dirt and wasn\u2019t shy about exposing skeletons in closets, and before long Nora has a seemingly endless list of suspects who were at risk of having their darkest secrets revealed. With a police force intent on throwing the book at Nora\u2019s friend and time running out, she and Nick must outwit a dangerous killer before they take their own secrets to the grave . . .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3_5-hearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong> Feb 9, 2021<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>A Nick and Nora Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:<\/strong> 4<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Beyond the Page<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $4.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/><br \/><br \/>Nora Charles<\/strong> gets a call from Desiree Sanders, a friend of her deceased mother. Desiree is one half of a successful romance writing team. Desiree thinks the other half, Marlene McCambridge, is planning to end the partnership and she wants Nora to find out why. Nora agrees to speak to Marlene, but discovers the woman\u2019s dead body. Nora learns that Marlene had been planning to write a gossipy tell-all, revealing secrets of her friends and rivals. Nora and her feline partner,<strong> Nick<\/strong>, launch their own investigation to find out if someone had secrets worth killing for.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s been a few years since the prior book in this series and I was excited to see Nora and Nick\u2019s adventures are continuing. The premise of the book with a smart cat finding ways to communicate with Nora to help solve crime is reminiscent of Lilian Jackson Braun\u2019s Cat Who... Series. This part of the book is well-done with Nick\u2019s abilities coming across as amazing and fun and not too whimsical. The plot is interesting and the book starts out really good with Nora tracking down possible suspects in Marlene\u2019s murder. Things bog down towards the middle with no real progress being made in the investigation and Nora making poor decisions.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nora is dating an FBI agent and seems to still be attracted to a high school boyfriend who is now a police detective. In spite of this, Nora withholds her theories, plans, and even evidence from both of them and puts herself into dangerous situations from which her cat has to rescue her. Things start getting a little too unbelievable, but then Nora seems to learn from her mistakes and gets smarter about how she proceeds with her sleuthing. The story quickly turns around for an exciting ending. In fact, in spite of some disappointments in this book, developments at the end of the story have me already anticipating the next book in this charming series.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Christine<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3p89IQw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/hiss-h-for-homicide\/id1545399182?itsct=books_toolbox&amp;itscg=30200&amp;at=11l88k&amp;ct=books_hiss_h_for_homicide&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/hiss-h-for-homicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/T_C_LoTempio_Hiss_H_for_Homicide?id=xqYPEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}