The Missing Ink
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...
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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...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451227461 (0451227468)
Publish date: July 7th 2009
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Tattoo Shop Mystery (#1)
Pros:* Vegas* Tattoos* MysteryCons:* Is this really a mystery?I learned a new term, "cozy mystery." Evidently there is an entire sub-genre of crime fiction that tends to have amateur female detectives who solve crimes in their hometown. This is definitely a cozy mystery. Though before learning this ...
2.5 stars Cozy mysteries rank somewhere around chick lit and romantic suspense for genres I don't read much of, out of personal preference. The reason why I chose to indulge with The Missing Ink was because of the tattoo shop setting. I'm not sure if I was expecting more of an edgy slant than what w...
3.5 starsFirst, I picked up this title because of the cover. It needs to be said, the cover is so cute!!Okay, the story itself is quite intriguing. Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist in Las Vegas. She gets involved in a investigation of a missing girl -- who turns out to be a fiancée of a man from a...
The story, set in Vegas, started well with a tattoo-artist/business woman with clear-cut goals and an apparent level of common sense. Unfortunately there was just a little too much hiding while eavesdropping, being trapped where one shouldn't be, not telling her cop brother things she should, and I...
Hard read. So many characters to keep up with, and two of them had the same name. Nice concept.