Olivia is finally coming out of mourning and decides she wants to experience everything. Her first outing is a Masquerade where she meets Ian Drake, a spy thinking she is who is to contact him. He soon realizes his error. When they meet later she knows who he is but he has no idea who she is. He figures she is just a snooty aristocrat. When he later learns who she is he is unsure what to do as he still needs to help a French spy who helped the English escape from England.

I liked these characters. Olivia is a total innocent who gets herself involved in things she has no idea exist. Ian does his best to protect her. Because of Olivia's innocence many people are drawn to her. That is fortunate as it helps her at the end. The secondary characters were interesting and eclectic. The story was fun. This is a good read for a lazy afternoon.

TITLE:  The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

AUTHOR:  Teresa Solana

TRANSLATOR:  Peter Bush

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DESCRIPTION:

"Ingenious, always witty and sometimes gruesome short stories by one of Spain’s best-known crime writers.

An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also includes a sparkling web of Barcelona stories--connected by two criminal acts--that allows Solana to explore the darker side of different parts of the city and their seedier inhabitants."

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REVIEW:

This is a charming, witty and entertaining collection of crime stories, most set in Spain.  A fairly relaxing read for those over-stressed brain cells.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy of The Advocate's Conviction by Teresa Burrell published by Silent Thunder Publishing in an Amazon promotion.

That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave this book four stars.

"Sabre Orin Brown's clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them--before it's too late. In her race against the clock, Sabre must determine whether contemporary horrors are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions--or if it's something else at work."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Advocates-Conviction-Advocate-Book-ebook/dp/B00876SQN2

I received a complimentary Kindle copy of The Advocate's Betrayal by Teresa Burrell published by Silent Thunder Publishing in an Amazon promotion in exchange for a fair review.

I gave this book four stars.

Sabre is an attorney who is helping her friend, when Betty is accused of murdering her husband John.

In one of her other cases she had an advantage. "Fortunately for Sabre, she didn’t have an active role in her afternoon trial. Her client lived out of state, he supported the recommendations of the Department of Social Services, and he had little interest in the outcome of the case other than the negative effect it would have on his ex-spouse, for which he seemed to be gleaning a perverse kind of pleasure."

Link to purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Advocates-Betrayal-Advocate-Book-ebook/dp/B00876HPZ2