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A Jewel Of A Crime By Valerie Taylor
Genre: Cozy Mystery

With green streaks in her hair and “Rock the Shamrock” polish on her nails, Venus Bixby is ready to trade dance recitals for airplane tickets.

After selling her dance studio, she has a brand-new plan: travel the world and recover stolen art. But life deals Venus an unexpected card. When she pulls back a curtain in the studio and finds the new owner dead on the couch, her next adventure becomes a very public nightmare.

With Chatham Crossing’s whisper mill in overdrive, Venus is now a prime suspect (because of course she is). In the process of clearing her name, she discovers her late husband secretly bought an emerald ring—and now it’s missing.
As burglaries ripple through this charming town, Venus wonders if the studio owner’s death and the missing emerald are part of the same glittering crime spree.

Between gossiping neighbors, buried secrets, and one very inconvenient corpse, Venus will need sharp instincts—and maybe a touch of Irish luck—to solve the case before her passport dreams are grounded for good.

A Jewel of a Crime is book three in the Venus Bixby Mystery series. Expect cozy clues, small-town charm, amateur sleuthing, cats, and a mystery that keeps sparkling with surprises..

About the Author

Valerie Taylor considers herself an “average Jane.” She might remind you of a reclusive neighbor who’s secretly writing her next novel. Unlike many of the writers she admires, she doesn’t hold a degree in literature. Instead, she credits her love of storytelling to a steady diet of classic comedy and suspense.

She’s the award-winning author of the romantic comedy trilogy What’s Not Said, What’s Not True, and What’s Not Lost, as well as of the first two books in the Venus Bixby cozy mystery series, A Whale of a Murder and Switched at Death. Her affinity for humor and whodunits was shaped early on by watching Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and The Twilight Zone.

When she’s not writing, Valerie enjoys oldies music, a passion sparked by hours growing up spent listening and dancing to Elvis Presley and The Beatles—and by proudly belonging to the Bobby Darin fan club.

Valerie lives close to her family in Connecticut.

My Thoughts

A Jewel of a Crime By Valerie Taylor is about a bunch of very interesting characters. One lady is named Venus, who sold her dance studio, which was located inside the Chatham Crossing, to a couple named Sam and Margo Abbott. Who ended up naming it SAM’s Studio inside the bustling local shopping center? They were sure it would be an easy switch of ownership. While on a casual visit to drop off flowers welcoming the couple to the area, Venus finds Margo dead behind the curtain. What happened to Margo? Where was her husband when it happened? What does this mean now for Venus’s plans… to take the money from the sale and travel the world as an investigator to locate stolen art? The story takes you on the journey as Venus uses her investigative skills to unravel who did it. One day while getting ready, she realizes a ring her late husband gave her is missing, backtracking to figure out where it may have gone. The emerald ring may have something to do with the crimes happening in her city. What an interesting trip you go on to figure it all out! Toss some tarot card readings into the mix; it made me question it all even more when I thought I had figured it out.

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