Nancy Curteman

This book follows Lysi Weston who is in Montana to do a sexual harassment seminar at a company there. Her friend ends up getting murdered so she has to stay and the whole book is her trying to figure out who killed her friend along with her falling in love with the detective that is investigating the case. I feel in love with the characters and thought that the author does a great job of explaining things. She doesn't give so many details that it is over done but she gives enough to keep you reading and wondering what is going to happen next.… (mehr)

Lysi Westin and her partner Grace Wright are in Sydney, Australia for a conference on sexual harassment. They plan to take an evening off for dinner with Grace’s childhood friend, Marita. But that meal never materializes for Marita was brutally murdered.

Murder Down Under by Nancy Curteman is a fast-paced murder mystery where amateur sleuth, Lysi Westin attempts to unravel a tangled assortment of leads and incriminating evidence to determine Marita’s killer. As Lysi gets stuck in a cobweb of facts and misinformation, Maynard Christie, an attractive Sydney detective working on the murder investigation, tries to thwart her meddling.

Sparks fly between Lysi and Maynard as Grace comforts Marita’s grieving fiancé. Through the complex plot twists Curteman shows us Australia with a colorful narrative style depicting the Aussie continent’s culture and landscape.

Murder Down Under is written in the third person omniscient point of view. By exploring characters’ thoughts readers are provided an enjoyable read by a very talented writer. And the good news is, another Lysi Westin novel, Murder in a Teacup, is waiting in the wings to be read.… (mehr)