Forty Day Fiancé by Erin McCarthy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


McCarthy does it again. With sassy wit and irresistible charm, she gives readers what they want. Forty Day Fiance' is a laugh out loud, can't help but fall in love, kind of read. Felicia is one step away from finding her happy ending with the man of her dreams. Except he doesn't know it yet. What began as a curiosity becomes a disaster in the making. McCarthy proves she knows her readers by heart and continues to give them a reason to smile. 

McCarthy brings light to an often times dreary day. Her mysteries are eccentric, her characters are eclectic and her sense of humor is a welcome breath of fresh air. Five First Dates is a perfectly, imperfect temptation that proves itself irresistible on multiple levels. Chase away your blues and open your heart to an addictive kind of fun.

*bookish series created by Moonlight Reader

So I passed on the Amazon promotion because I didn't want to get that many books and make my TBR balloon again. A sale like that would need me to be at below 200 books and making a dent in my series reading. 

Print additions

None 

NOOK additions

Nothing 

Kindle additions

Nothing

Library Borrows

Physical:

+1. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicole Yoon (Book club pick for November)

Digital:

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Print read

Nothing

NOOK read

-1. Crazy (Crazy Ella #1) by Eve Langlais

-2. Gone with the Ghost (Murder by Design #2) by Erin McCarthy

Kindle read

Nothing

Library Returns

-4. A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes

*Total TBR from last week: 292

*Total books added: 1

*Total books read: 3

*Total TBR #: 290

Date Published: May 3, 2017

Format: Ebook

Source: Own Copy

Date Read: October 26-27, 2019

Read for Halloween Bing Amateur Sleuth square

Blurb

Bailey Burke has had a rough six months—it’s not easy thinking your romantic overtures toward your best friend caused him to kill himself. Except that’s exactly what happened. Ryan is very much dead, having shot himself with his own police-issued gun. Guilt and grief shouldn’t cause hallucinations though, but six months after Ryan went into the ground, Bailey is freaking out and swearing his ghost is standing in her kitchen. Which he is…

Ryan claims he didn’t commit suicide, but was murdered, and he needs Bailey to help him find his killer so he can earn his ticket out of purgatory. Ryan’s counting on a stairway to heaven, as opposed to wings, since that might be a little unmanly for a cop, even a dead one.

An expert in home design, with her own staging business, Bailey can tell you where to place a couch to improve flow and comfort, but solving a crime? Not her area of expertise. But with help from Ryan’s former partner, Marner, she is unraveling the mystery of what happened to Ryan that day… and unwittingly putting herself in grave danger.

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Pretty good cozy mystery for a freebie from the NOOK store. I liked Bailey and Marner, Ryan the ghost I could have done with a little less. I actually didn't guess who the killer was until the very end when it was revealed. Bailey is smarter than she gives herself credit for and it comes in handy; the girl can't lie to save her life though which makes for some weird sleuthing. It does veer into shallow chick lit territory, especially when it comes to comments about women's bodies (specifically Bailey's body). If my library has the series, I will pick them up to read.