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    Fatal Brushstroke
    Fatal Brushstroke
    Fatal Brushstroke
    Audiobook8 hours

    Fatal Brushstroke

    Written by Sybil Johnson

    Narrated by Vanessa Daniels

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A dead body in her garden and a homicide detective on her doorstep . . .

    Computer programmer and tole painting enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson doesn't envision finding either when she steps outside to investigate the frenzied yipping coming from her own backyard. After all, she lives in Vista Beach, a quiet California beach community where violent crime is rare and murder even rarer.

    Suspicion falls on Rory when the body buried in her flowerbed turns out to be someone she knows-her tole painting teacher, Hester Bouquet. Just two weeks before, Rory attended one of Hester's weekend seminars, an unpleasant experience she vowed never to repeat. As evidence piles up against Rory, she embarks on a quest to identify the killer and clear her name. Can Rory unearth the truth before she encounters her own brush with death?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781541485976
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    • 3/5
      Rory Anderson wakes up one morning to the neighbor's dog barking in her backyard. After returning the dog, she goes to see what is the problem...and finds a finger sticking up out of her garden. After calling the police, she sees more of the body and discovers who the dead woman is. Hester Bouquet, her tole painting teacher. But it looks as if all the evidence points to Rory as the killer, and the chief of police is going to charge her even if she's not guilty, so she needs to find a killer fast.But when a second body is discovered, the rush is on, because they're getting close to charging her, and it doesn't look pretty...This is the first book in the series, and I do realize that it is an older book, but I do like to read them because they're not filled with author political views. That drives me crazy, unfortunately. But also unfortunately, this book just couldn't keep me interested. The only likeable character in the book is Rory. She's also the only one we know anything about. She's a computer programmer but never spends time doing anything, so I imagine she must have a healthy bank account.There were so many questions -- what kind of a town does she live in that her neighbors would shy away from her when she had nothing to do with the past? Pretty overly-righteous and overly judgmental people, if you ask me. I also had to wonder at the chief, who was blaming a small toddler for something she had nothing to do with so many years ago. Just sayin'Detective Green seemed off, too. He started out okay, but then just seemed to be a shell of a man going about his day and not even caring -- very unemotional. I realize cops have to be impartial, but this guy was almost robotic. Her mother didn't seem to care about anything that was happening to her daughter, either.I knew the murderer the minute that person stepped on the page. It wasn't hard to decipher, but I did look toward the end to see the reason why and how the climax was going to come about (I just couldn't finish this book; sorry; so I did move forward). At any rate, the ending was fine, and there was some resolution to a couple of things, but I will read the next in the series to see if it improves.
    • 4/5
      4 STARSI was surprised that this was book #1 in the series. The characters have detailed background and show the history. I like Aurora and her friend Liz. I did guess the murder early on and what the murder weapon was, but not all the motive and why frame Aurora.Aurora does not tell the police everything she knows or the full truth right away because she does not trust the police with good reason. The Chief of Police can only see her as the guilty party because of who her parents were.Why do people blame the innocent children for things that the parents do even before they were born?Rory finds a body buried in her yard and does the right thing and calls the police. It was her teacher on tole painting that she had taken a lesson from her a couple of weeks ago.Rory's adopted mom owns a craft store. This is centered around tole painting. Which takes a lot of time to do.Rory works on computers from home. She also helps her mom out in her store. She is single just broke up with boyfriend. Her good friend Liz sells homes.Detective Green is pretty new to town. He is looking at Aurora as one main suspect but he is also doing his job. He is good looking. He is very serious.The setting is Vista Beach, CA it is a mile wide and two miles long on the coast.I would read more books by Sybil Johnson in the future.I was given this ebook to read by Net Galley and Henery Press. In return I agreed to give honest review of Fatal Brushstroke.
    • 4/5
      From now on, Rory vowed to use the memo feature on her cell phone instead of the Post-it notes she usually employed. That way, she wouldn't leave little bits of herself lying around in unexpected places—like under dead bodies.For the longest time while reading this book I had my theory on who I thought was behind everything that was happening in the book. I was like "This is so obvious! Why can't anyone see that [character name redacted] is behind everything?" I have not included the name of the person that I thought was behind everything because even though I was completely wrong, I still don't want to spoil anything. Boy, I have never been so happy to have been so wrong. If I had been right this book would not have been as enjoyable as it was.There are events from Aurora's (Rory) past involving her biological parents that really affect the way that everyone in the community see her. Those events are mentioned a little bit into the book and so when everyone seemed suspicious of her I had felt like I was missing something. When her past was revealed things definitely cleared up for me. I really liked Rory so it was hard to continue to read this book once everyone became suspicious of her and started to blame her. The blame of her and the gossip got to be too much and I could have done without some of it. I mean couldn't the police have followed up on any other leads and done their job correctly?I really don't know what to think of Detective Green because even though I had hoped that he wouldn't have been blinded by the town's suspicion of Rory he at times seemed to really fall for it. Maybe I was just hoping that he would help Rory clear her name and that maybe they would become friends and eventually grow into a deeper relationship. Okay so I'm going a little overboard but I don't care.There were some pretty interesting twists that threw me for a loop. At the end when it was revealed who was behind everything and why they did it I was definitely surprised. It was a great ending to this book and I would be interested in seeing what happens next in this series. Thanks to NetGalley and Henery Press for the galley.