Review : A Beautiful Corpse

A Beautiful Corpse by Christi Daugherty

(Harper McClain #2)

Genre: Mystery, Fiction,

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Pages: 320

Published: March 12th 2019 by Minotaur Books

From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain.

For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all.

With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees draped in a veil of Spanish moss, Savannah’s graceful downtown is famous around the world. When a woman is killed in the heart of that affluent district, the shock is felt throughout the city. But for crime reporter Harper McClain, this story is personal. The corpse has a familiar face.

Only twenty-four years old, Naomi Scott was just getting started. A law student, tending bar to make ends meet, she wanted to change the world. Instead, her life ended in the dead of night at the hands of an unseen gunman. There are no witnesses to the crime. The police have three suspects: Scott’s boyfriend, who has a criminal past he claims he’s put behind him, her boss, who stalked another young bartender two years ago, and the district attorney’s son, who Naomi dated until their relationship ended in acrimony. All three men claim to love her. Could one of them be her killer?

With the whole city demanding answers, Harper unravels a tangled story of obsession and jealousy. But the pressures on her go beyond the murder. The newspaper is facing more layoffs. Her boss fears both their jobs are on the line. And Harper begins to realize that someone is watching her every move. Someone familiar and very dangerous.Someone who told her to run before it’s too late…

When a women  Harper does everything she can as a crime reporter to help uncover the truth of who was behind it especially since its someone Harper knows. There are three suspects the boyfriend, her boss, or a well respected district Attorneys son. Each have some type of sketchy pasts or connections that can cover the truth. Harper has to work hard and fast because layoffs at her job are making things more stressful and solving this case can help her out.

It took me a while to read this book but when I did I just couldn't put it down. I loved reading romantic suspense, mystery thriller types. This book turns a bit unexpected when I found out while deep into this book is wasn't a romance and it was a book two. So I'd maybe recommend readers to check out the previous book before getting to this but I will admit it did a good job as a standalone but I think I would've appreciated the book more if I got to know more of what happened in the previous book. But with that being said this book did do a good job catching me up with brief talk about what happened in the past but it would've been nice if I had checked out the other book might even go back and check it out when I get a chance because I really enjoyed this book.

As for this book I really enjoyed it. I loved Harpers character and seeing the lengths she was going though to help out with the case. She really trusted her gut instincts and its helped her plenty of times. I thought that this book was well written and easy to fall into making the readers want to stick around and see more of what it had to offer. I loved seeing more into the case as she came across clues and how she pieced things together. It was just a pretty great mystery thriller book I really enjoyed it.