Author: Tracy Kiely
Title: Murder Most Persuasive
publication: Paperback
Pages: 293
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Acquisition: LT Friends are lovely
Date: September 26, 2011
Rating: ****
Murder Most Persuasive opens with a funeral, but this particular death is not the one that causes concern; rather, it is the body that is found under the family's old pool that sets this narrative in motion. Keeping her tongue firmly in an Austen novel, Elizabeth Parker barely manages to navigate her family while trying to save them from suspicion of murder. In the end it's not Jane Austen, but rather Ben Stiller, that inspires the resolution, and Kiely does an admirable job drawing out the conclusion until things can be satisfactorily summarized. With plenty of pop-culture references, Murder Most Persuasive is not a book that will age well, but for the time being it is an enjoyable cozy.
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