Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
Dying for a Dance (Laurel McKay #2)
by
Cindy Sample (Goodreads Author)
It takes two to tango-but only one to murder.Lead-footed single mom, Laurel McKay, agrees to learn a foxtrot routine for her best friend's wedding. After she trips her instructor, crashes into a pair of dancers and breaks the heel of her new shoes, she thinks her evening can't possibly get any worse. Then she stumbles over another dancer. A dead one. With her broken stilet...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
September 21st 2011
by L & L Dreamspell
(first published 2010)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
189)
Laurel McKay--single mom, mortgage underwriter and occasional murder suspect--returns to the mystery page in “Dying for a Dance,” a new release by author Cindy Sample. This time she’s taking ballroom dance lessons in preparation for an old friend’s wedding. Being Laurel, she simply must find a dead body and put herself into the middle of a murder investigation!
Joining Laurel in her adventures are her family and friends, her coworkers at Hangtown Bank and a studio full of intriguing dance instruc...more
Joining Laurel in her adventures are her family and friends, her coworkers at Hangtown Bank and a studio full of intriguing dance instruc...more
I love traditional mysteries. I love them even more when they’re funny and Dying for a Dance is a very funny mystery. Laurel reminds me of a boss I used to have who was also a very good friend. Marilyn, like Laurel, was an attractive woman who usually had her act together and had a good man in her life (still does). She was one of those women it would be easy to hate because she seemed to have it all, you know the type? And then she would pull off a ridiculously silly and inept move, frequently...more
Dying for a Dance is mystery novelist Cindy Sample's second outing for single working mom Laurel McKay. Laurel, an "Everywoman" for the rest of us, shares her insecurities with a rapid fire , self-deprecating wit that makes you want to be her BFF. At the same time, we get to vicariously experience the cutthroat glitz of the world of ballroom dancing. In Sample's earlier "Dying for a Date," also available on Kindle, Laurel fell into amateur sleuthing after two dates she met through a dating servi...more
This book series has me hooked. I truly like amateur sleuth and bank loan officer, Laurel McKay. She finds herself in amazing situations and truly copes with her ready sense of humor and the thing is...I get the jokes!
Jokes and murder? Yes, they do in fact go together like a fine glass of wine and dark chocolate. In this episode, we find Laurel attempting to learn to Foxtrot for her best friend, Liz's Winter wedding at Lake Tahoe. Laurel finds herself surrounded by a Russian cast just like on th...more
Jokes and murder? Yes, they do in fact go together like a fine glass of wine and dark chocolate. In this episode, we find Laurel attempting to learn to Foxtrot for her best friend, Liz's Winter wedding at Lake Tahoe. Laurel finds herself surrounded by a Russian cast just like on th...more
Single mom Laurel McKay reluctantly agrees to take dancing lessons for a routine for her best friend’s upcoming wedding in Lake Tahoe. Klutzy Laurel trips during a practice dance, breaking the heel of her shoe. Later that night, that same heel is found sticking out of the mouth of one of the male instructors, dead in the parking lot with a pool of blood under his head. Laurel thinks things can’t get much worse but they do when Detective Tom Hunter shows up to investigate. Hunter pegged Laurel as...more
When you are in the mood for a romantic mystery, without question, Cindy Sample is a go-to author. This is the second book in a series (Dying for a Date, being the first, but you don’t need to read the books in order). In Dying for a Dance the heroine (a forty nine year old divorced working mom) gets caught up in the ballroom dance world while innocently preparing to be in a wedding party. A series of murders occur around her. This book was at times funny, mentally challenging (who the heck was...more
All The Right Moves
While Laurel McKay, the harried, single-mom heroine of DYING FOR A DANCE, may have two left feet when it comes to dancing, her creator, author Cindy Sample, makes all the right moves in this laugh-riddled mystery. A follow-up to Sample’s debut mystery, this new tale offers the same ingredients that won DYING FOR A DATE so many fans— the return of a loveable, smart heroine, who can laugh at her own follies, a dreamboat detective we’d all like to meet, a zany cast of secondary c...more
While Laurel McKay, the harried, single-mom heroine of DYING FOR A DANCE, may have two left feet when it comes to dancing, her creator, author Cindy Sample, makes all the right moves in this laugh-riddled mystery. A follow-up to Sample’s debut mystery, this new tale offers the same ingredients that won DYING FOR A DATE so many fans— the return of a loveable, smart heroine, who can laugh at her own follies, a dreamboat detective we’d all like to meet, a zany cast of secondary c...more
view 1 comment
Who would think that a simple bridal dance could become a problem? But when Laurel's best friend, Liz, decides that the entire wedding party will have dance lessons, trouble steps all over Laurel's feet. And it isn't only that she's clumsy on the dance floor, either. Someone has stolen her dance shoes, and when she finds one stuck in the mouth of a very volatile, very dead, Russian dance instructor, she knows she's in trouble—again.
Soon, Laurel is shoved into the murder investigation when her b...more
Soon, Laurel is shoved into the murder investigation when her b...more
Author Cindy Sample has another hit on her hands. Dying for a Dance is a tense murder mystery that is loaded with funny one-liners and quips from soccer-mom-turned-detective, Laurel McKay. McKay is learning to dance for her best girlfriend's wedding. Little does she know that murder is afoot and McKay is in the middle of the action. McKay juggles kids (who are both wonderful by the way), a mom who is dating a retired cop, an ex-boyfriend who is a current cop that she wants back, as well as a ful...more
Weddings, dancing and a mystery - what’s not to love about this book? “Dying for a Dance” offers all of the elements of an excellent cozy mystery. The characters, the plot, the setting were all interesting. The writing was fast paced. I struggled to figure out what it was that stood out that made me really enjoy the book and I decided it was the tone. It is a feel-good book, it makes you smile. It almost makes you want to take ballroom dance classes too.
Read more of the review on http://www.exa...more
Read more of the review on http://www.exa...more
I know not to expect in depth, character developing, deep reads from this type of book but this one needed a little more. For being the matron of honor at her best friends wedding she did hardly anything, a better role in that event would have worked better. Too much emotion wrapped up in a relationship that lasted 2 weeks and the ending flopped for me.
Looking for a fun read with quirky characters, a mystery AND ballroom dancing? Cindy Sample delivers it all. I read Dying for a Dance in one sitting and went away smiling. I missed the first book in the series, Dying for a Date, so that's next on my to-read list!
Laurel McKay just wanted to learn enough ballroom dance steps to be part of her friend's wedding party, but things take a turn when male dance instructors turn up dead almost at Laurel's feet...and not because she couldn't follow. Once again Cindy Sample has written a good, fast, madcap adventure of the intrepid mortgage underwriter, not a career that normally turns up bodies! But you'll root for Laurel, who's trying to make sense out of her single-mom-hectic daily routine and stumbles over men....more
Even if you don't usually read mystery novels, read this one to enjoy the dialogue. Well written, good plot, you'll love it.
Even better than the first in the series and that's saying a lot! Funny, witty with an intriguing mystery- a must read!
A laugh out loud whodunit! This book has humor, romance and mystery. Looking forward to her next book."
Category: Mystery
Dying for a Dance sounded like a good book so I decided to enter the giveaway and happy to discover that I won a copy! I enjoyed this tale of a woman who always seems to have trouble follow her. This time, her broken dance shoe finds it's way into the mouth of a dead dancer. Discovering this is a sequel, I look forward to reading it.
Mar 31, 2013
Alicia Renee
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2013-purchases,
suspense-and-mystery
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Cindy Sample is a former corporate CEO who decided plotting murder was more fun than plodding through paperwork. After one too many mergers,she retired to write her award-winning humorous mystery series set in the gold country of California. Her experiences as a single Mom with on-line dating sites and dating agencies fueled the concept for DYING FOR A DATE. Ballroom dance competitions inspired DY...more
More about Cindy Sample...
Share This Book
No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »
