The Missing Ink (Tattoo Shop Series #1)

by Karen E. Olson

Overview

Murder leaves a mark

Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of an elite tattoo parlor in Las Vegas. When a girl makes an appointment for a tattoo of the name of her fiancé embedded in a heart, Brett takes the job but the girl never shows. The next thing Brett knows, the police are looking for her client, and the name she wanted on the tattoo isn't her fiancé's...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101061374
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/07/2009
Series:	Tattoo Shop Series , #1
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	299 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Karen E. Olson is the author of the bestselling Annie Seymour, Tattoo Shop Mystery, and Black Hat Thriller series. Her first novel, Sacred Cows, won her the Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award for best debut mystery in 2005. She was also a finalist for the Shamus Award for the fourth book in her Annie Seymour series, Shot Girl. She lives with her husband in Connecticut.

Editorial Reviews

The Painted Lady, a tattoo shop in contemporary Las Vegas, and its owner, artist turned tattooist Brett Kavanaugh, are central to this pleasantly jargon-free themed mystery from Olson (the Annie Seymour mysteries). When a woman requests a devotion tattoo from Brett and then vanishes, her disappearance is quickly linked to a series of murders involving tattooing equipment and rival shop Murder Ink. Brett's police detective brother, Tim, requests her expertise, and a murder at an engagingly excessive fictional hotel leads to Brett meeting its mysteriously handsome manager, Simon Chase, providing a solid base for further sleuthing and romance. Readers need not be conversant with "street flash" or other industry terms to enjoy the setting and follow Brett down a trail of needles and gloves to the dramatic finale. (July)

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