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Driven to Ink (Tattoo Shop Mystery #3)
by
Karen E. Olson (Goodreads Author)
The latest in the cleverly designed tattoo shop mystery series.
Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas's hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After discovering the corpse of a Dean Martin impersonator-sporting a spider web tattoo and a clip cord from a tattoo machine wrapped around his neck-Brett infiltrates...more
Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas's hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After discovering the corpse of a Dean Martin impersonator-sporting a spider web tattoo and a clip cord from a tattoo machine wrapped around his neck-Brett infiltrates...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
September 7th 2010
by Signet
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In this third installment of A Tattoo Shop Mystery, series our meddling tattoo artist and shop owner, Brett Kavanaugh, finds a dead body in the trunk of her car. The body looks an awful lot like Dean Martin. She'd recently loaned her car to friends for their drive-through wedding, and now with the elderly bride and groom missing, all sorts of thoughts--and fears--are running through Brett's mind. Despite her brother's advice that she leave the investigation to the police, Brett, joined by the br...more
Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist who owns an upscale shop called The Painted Lady in Las Vegas.
She lends her car to Sylvia Coleman and Bernie Applebaum, so they can get married at a drive-in wedding chapel. They're so elderly that she's doubly surprised to find a dead body in the trunk when they return it.
The body belongs to a Dean Martin impersonator who worked at the chapel where the couple were wed, and there's a clip cord from a tattoo machine around it's neck. When she tries to reach Sy...more
She lends her car to Sylvia Coleman and Bernie Applebaum, so they can get married at a drive-in wedding chapel. They're so elderly that she's doubly surprised to find a dead body in the trunk when they return it.
The body belongs to a Dean Martin impersonator who worked at the chapel where the couple were wed, and there's a clip cord from a tattoo machine around it's neck. When she tries to reach Sy...more
For the third time, Las Vegas tattoo artist managers to get herself mixed up with dead bodies, this time in page one of Karen E. Olson's latest tattoo shop mystery. After lending her car to elderly couple Sylvia and Bernie, friends of her rival tattoo artist and pal Jeff Coleman, she finds a dead body in her trunk with a That's Amore tattoo, plus a dead rat. The corpse was one of several Dean Martin impersonators at, yes, a wedding chapel called That's Amore, and she soon winds up immersed in ye...more
I think book # in the Tattoo Shop Mystery is my favorite so far for several reasons.
It starts with a bang, because right from the first chapter, Brett finds a dead body in the trunk of her car, which had previously been borrowed by her friend, Jeff's mother. Then, it's all fast-paced plot from there. There are Dean Martin impersonators being killed, Sylvia (Jeff's mother) and her husband missing, and there someone SHOOTING (!) on Brett and Jeff.
I love how Brett and Tim (her brother) teaming up...more
It starts with a bang, because right from the first chapter, Brett finds a dead body in the trunk of her car, which had previously been borrowed by her friend, Jeff's mother. Then, it's all fast-paced plot from there. There are Dean Martin impersonators being killed, Sylvia (Jeff's mother) and her husband missing, and there someone SHOOTING (!) on Brett and Jeff.
I love how Brett and Tim (her brother) teaming up...more
Is there anything more Vegas than competing drive-through wedding chapels, one side serenading Dean Martins and across the street singing Elvis’s? I do love the setting for this series. The Strip and it’s underbelly really does feel like a main character.
Brett is just as strong and nosy as ever and I still admire her spunk. The love interest that dumped her at the end of the last book is back and the spark is rekindled, only that doesn’t mean it will work out, there are other possibilites.
I love...more
Brett is just as strong and nosy as ever and I still admire her spunk. The love interest that dumped her at the end of the last book is back and the spark is rekindled, only that doesn’t mean it will work out, there are other possibilites.
I love...more
#3 in the Tattoo shop mysteries featuring Brett Kavanaugh, owner of the Painted Lady tattoo salon in Las Vegas. Brett kindly loans her red Mustang convertible to an elderly friend who is getting married--they are using one of the drive-through wedding chapels in Vegas and wanted something more classy than Sylvia's battered Gremlin. The morning after, Brett returns from a trip to Red Rocks where she does some hiking--only to discover a body in the trunk--dead as a doornail, with a dead rat undern...more
I continue to enjoy this book series. Brett hits a bump in the road and hears a weird thump as something hits the ceiling of her trunk. She opens it to see what she forgot to bring in from the grocery store and discovers... a dead Dean Martin, a Dean Martin impersonator actually, this is Vegas after all. Once again Brett becomes involved in solving a murder. It's incredible just how many times she finds connections to the murder in her life beyond finding the body. I won't spoil the surprise but...more
What’s it about? Driven to Ink is the third installment of the Tattoo shop Mystery books by Karen E. Olson. Again Brett Kavanaugh returns as amateur sleuth/ full time tattoo artist in the streets of Sin City.
The story starts with Brett finding a corpse in her truck of her car, the same car she loaned to a fellow tattoo artist for a drive-thru wedding. Not only is Brett the primary suspect but the newly weds are missing! In order to clear her name and find her friends Brett and Jeff Coleman begi...more
The story starts with Brett finding a corpse in her truck of her car, the same car she loaned to a fellow tattoo artist for a drive-thru wedding. Not only is Brett the primary suspect but the newly weds are missing! In order to clear her name and find her friends Brett and Jeff Coleman begi...more
Brett Kavanaugh is a high end tattoo artist in Las Vegas, living with her cop brother. She loans her car to an octogenarian friend, also a tattoo artist, for her drive through wedding. They return the car in good condition, including a body in the trunk. With only a "That's Amore" tattoo on the victim as a clue, curious and gutsy Kavanaugh proceeds to follow clues to locate her newlywed friend and the murderer.
Very funny scenes in drive through wedding chapels including a war between a Dean Mart...more
Very funny scenes in drive through wedding chapels including a war between a Dean Mart...more
Brett Kavanaugh is a trouble magnet. She just falls into situations that other people couldn't even imagine. As Vegas' top go to person for custom tattoos, she meets some of the most interesting people in the world.
This time out, she loans her car to a friends mother to use for her drive through wedding, and she gets it back with a dead boy in it. From there it's just one roller coaster ride after another.
With car chases, people getting run over, and lots of shooting she barely gets out of thi...more
This time out, she loans her car to a friends mother to use for her drive through wedding, and she gets it back with a dead boy in it. From there it's just one roller coaster ride after another.
With car chases, people getting run over, and lots of shooting she barely gets out of thi...more
Lots of twists and turns in this book and although I guessed who was behind the murders I still questioned if I was right as I read further. With all the characters mentioned throughout I was unsure how they were involved but the author does really well drawing all the threads together so it all makes sense in the end.
I have to say that felt worn out on behalf of Brett with the full day of events she had to cope with. Her dealings with Jeff are interesting and I do hope that it is leading somew...more
I have to say that felt worn out on behalf of Brett with the full day of events she had to cope with. Her dealings with Jeff are interesting and I do hope that it is leading somew...more
This third installment in the Tattoo shop mysteries was a quick read, although I felt there were too many possibilities considered by the main characters. Although I like the idea of the tattoo setting, Brett doesn't quite feel real to me..her attraction to fellow tat artist Jeff Coleman is obvious to everyone but herself and her puppy crush on Dr Bixby seems contrived. He also doesn't seem like a real person either. Coleman is the only character that seems to be realistic enough to play out in...more
Brett Kavanaugh keeps running into tattooed criminals in Las Vegas - not that surprising when you think about it. This time around, Brett loans her beloved Mustang Bullitt to friend Sylvia Coleman to use for driving through a Dean Martin-themed wedding chapel. It comes back with a body in the trunk, & no one can locate Sylvia & her new husband. The body, an employee at the "That's Amore" wedding chapel, appears to have been strangled with a part from a tattoo machine. Of course Brett fee...more
I'm sorta over this series. It's a little daunting that the story occurs at such a wild rate and once the journey begins, it seems that everything in Brett's life has to revolve around whatever mystery she's mixed up in. I continue to be curious about her and Jeff Coleman, even though Colin Bixby makes his second appearance in this book. I mean, really, Colin...Bixby. She should dismiss him out of hand just because of his name, I don't care how hawt he is. And he lives down the hall from his mom...more
Entertaining cozy I have really grown to like this series. The characters are odd and fun and the plots convoluted but entertaining. This hit connected to a drive though wedding chapel featuring Dean Martin impersonators and some strange family connections. Light and easy this was fun to read.
Tattoo artist Brett Kavanaugh does more detecting than tattooing. She is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this installment, she loans her car to Sylvia so she can get married at one of those drive-thru wedding chapels in Vegas. Only problem is the dead body in the trunk when she returns the car. Of course it being Brett's car, Brett is insatiable in her desire to find out why some dude from the wedding chapel wound up in her trunk. A lot of mixups and shenanigans later, Brett solv...more
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After Brett finds a body in the trunk of her car, she starts nosing around to figure out how and why he was there.
There's no shortage of clues and action in this fast-paced mystery.
There's no shortage of clues and action in this fast-paced mystery.
I totally failed to read the first two, but it didn't really matter. Total brain candy, but I enjoyed the relationship with her brother. On to the previous installments, I guess.
Sep 12, 2010
Lori Whitwam
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review of another edition
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Still good, still amusing, still good mystery plots (if a few too many in the cast of suspicious characters)... But I really hope the characters evolve at least a bit in #4.
Solid entry in the series, will definitely continue on. Glad she pulled Brett back from the edge of being TSTL.
Brett Cavanaugh cannot catch a break away from dead bodies. This time there's one in the trunk of her beloved Mustang. The Mustang that her friend Sylvia Coleman borrowed to get hitched at the drive-thru wedding chapel known as That's Amore.
Brett's admonished to not get involved, but she can't help but to help her friends.
A fun cozy series. I love Las Vegas anyway so the setting is perfect and makes it fun to revisit the city through the author's eyes. I would love to visit Brett's shop, The Pa...more
Brett's admonished to not get involved, but she can't help but to help her friends.
A fun cozy series. I love Las Vegas anyway so the setting is perfect and makes it fun to revisit the city through the author's eyes. I would love to visit Brett's shop, The Pa...more
Tattoos + Murder Mystery? HECK YES! Drive-thru weddings, murders, mystery and drama! Fantastic read, I would recommend it!
The plot is pretty far fetched but fun and the romance angle is much more intriguing here.
Another compelling volume from the Tattoo Shop Mystery series. Thoroughly enjoyable.
wish i could have read them in order, hope she writes more of this series
I loved the first two books in this series, but this one wasn't as good.
Really a 3.5 rating. Still love this series, but this title felt a little frantic to me.
Good book, enjoyed, shared title with others who enjoyed too
Fun mystery series that takes place in good ol' LV!
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I am the author of the Annie Seymour mystery series: SACRED COWS, SECONDHAND SMOKE, DEAD OF THE DAY, and the Shamus Award nominated SHOT GIRL. SACRED COWS won the Sara Ann Freed Memorial Award at Mysterious Press/Warner Books and was a Gumshoe finalist. Annie Seymour is a police reporter in New Haven, Connecticut. She is tough-talking, sassy and smart. She has been compared to Janet Evanovich's St...more
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