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Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta by Carole Nelson Douglas

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This was a hot mess. Now part of it might be my fault as I haven't read this series in forever. I've been on GR 15 years and haven't reviewed one in this series in that time so I've forgotten a lot. That said, to me, it's rather poor form in a mystery series to have more than 75% of your book be working on plot threads from previous books and I'm not talking just romantic entanglements. Let me outline the plots in this.
1. Savannah contacts Temple to help her aunt which happens in the beginning but we don't see this again for almost 100 pages. This is also the main 'new' crime
2. Max, Temple's ex, is back from the dead and she's dealing with that.
3. Matt, Temple's currant fiance is back from Chicago with a hot job offer that might mean a move
4. Molina, the detective Temple conflicts with wants to recruit Max for something
5. Molina wants Temple's help with the Barbie Doll killer as this serial killer (from previous books) may be targeting her daughter
6. Max and Matt have their conflicts
7. Family crap
8. disappearing cats (this Aunt Violet's issue that Temple is hired to help but more importantly she's ill with no will and it looks like she's being drugged in order to get in the will/kill her)

So yeah, hot mess. Most of the book is working on all these previous plots from older books. Aunt Violet's issue is an afterthought. So we have a mystery book with barely a mystery. We have a book that exists to work out Temple's complicated love life with way too much about Max and his issues and Matt and his issues and oh yeah some serial killer. And we get to hear these issues from Temple's pov, Matt's, Max's, Molina's and even the cat's. This wasn't good or interesting. Maybe if i were more up on the series it wouldn't be so bad but even so, it felt pointless.



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