Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too

by Nancy Martin

Overview

What's a down-and-out heiress to do? In this updated version of the bestselling Blackbird Sisters, Nora Blackbird collides with one blue-blooded family with a peculiar penchant for archery tournaments, plus a former angry rock and roll star turned bakery maven, and even a spoiled rich girl who will stop at nothing to become a bigtime influencer. All these Main Line eccentrics are mixed up in murder--nothing new for Nora Blackbird, a one-time Old Money heiress who's now working her pretty butt off to make a living.

This time she is on the grounds of a fabulous estate when one of the most distasteful aristocrats is shot dead with an arrow on the eve of opening his tacky club called Cupcakes. How to find out whodunit to the Cupcake King?

Meanwhile, in her darkest hour Nora has a big secret she must keep at all costs from her sometime lover, tough guy Mick Abruzzo. This time it's definitely life or death for Nora, and there's not a minute to stop for a cupcake break.

"What a hoot! What a treat!" --Bestselling author Rhys Bowen

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781962790086
Publisher:	Yinz Reads
Publication date:	11/20/2023
Series:	The Blackbird Sisters , #5
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Nancy Martin is the bestselling author of over fifty novels full of wit, mystery and maybe too much sex appeal. She used to write romance novels, but turns out it's more fun to kill people...at least on paper. Her mysteries combine a Sex and the City with a little Cabot Cove and a dash of Agatha Christie to keep readers turning pages late into the night. She's a lifelong Pennsylvanian, except when traveling with her husband, Mr. Football. Her favorite things are Venice, books in the bathtub, someone else's puppies, and her own grandchildren. Find her at NancyMartinMysteries.com

Editorial Reviews

Murder on Philadelphia's Main Line distracts a society columnist from her busy social life. Since she stops every five minutes to turn green and vomit, observant folks might figure that The Intelligencer's Nora Blackbird (Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die, 2005) is pregnant. But of her two sisters and her two lovers, only one of each starts out in the know. Part-time dominatrix Emma and goody-two-shoes crime reporter Richard D'eath both know Nora's little secret, but she's kept yoga-freak Libby and mobster Michael Abruzzo in the dark while deciding who she wants to be "the father of my child," an honor she assumes either gene-pool applicant would be thrilled to accept, whatever the DNA says. Nora's maternal stirrings are rudely interrupted by the murder of Zell Orcutt, shot by bow and arrow at nearby Fitch's Fancy while he's selling off its assets to finance Cupcakes, his strip club. The police suspect Delilah Fairweather because she's black and she won some archery medals years ago at summer camp, but Nora's checking out semi-senile Pierpoint Fitch and his dim state senator son Boykin, whose family heirlooms Zell just put up for auction, as well as stepdaughter Verbena Barnstable, whose daughter Clover is shaking her teenaged booty on Cupcakes. Nora's social connections and bedrock sentimentality rub all the sharp edges off her alley-cat behavior. Instead of Tart Noir, think Slut Gris.

Kirkus Reviews