Misleading Ladies

Emma Rhodes #3

by Cynthia Smith

“Fast . . . clever . . . charming.”— Publishers Weekly “Cool, sardonic, and unflappable Emma Rhodes sparkles diamond bright in Smith’s clever, twisty tales. This highly original series has panache.”—Carolyn Hart “Wonderful! . . . Encore!”—Kerry Greenwood “Brash, beautiful and smart as hell, Smith’s heroine will hook you from page one.”—Leann Sweeney Back in print, the third Emma Rhodes “Private Resolver” novel. Private Resolver Emma Rhodes is used to getting her way. She’s smart. She’s beautiful. And with a 100 percent success rate, it means she handpicks any case she wants. But when Emma boards the train to Hastings, all she wants is a little R&R. Until she meets Juliet Bishop, a baronet’s daughter with a story too good to resist . . . Juliet is getting a divorce. She’s madly in love with her husband, but his jealousy is just too much to bear. Now Emma is out to reunite the two lovebirds. While she’s searching for answers, Emma finds he’s been dumped twice before. What’s more, both of the women have been set up with generous trust funds—by their ex! Now, someone seems to want the two dead. And what used to be an open-and-shut case of love has turned into a full-fledged murder mystery. These high-society mysteries are sure to appeal to fans of Nancy Martin, Marne Davis Kellogg, Kerry Greenwood, and Jane Stanton Hitchcock. Cynthia Smith is the author of five Emma Rhodes novels, all of which Busted Flush Press will reprint. She lives in Florida.

Genres: Mystery

216 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

Cynthia S. Smith was the author of best-selling non-fiction books until she turned to crime. She lives in Florida.

Reviews

[Megan]

I enjoyed the storyline, and felt the suspense wanting to find out who was the murderer. This book was well written. I actually picked up this book because I know someone named Cynthia Smith (author's name), not because I had heard anything good about it or thought I would like it.

I did not like the main character's moral code. She says she is monogamous, but then she loves one guy and is "unmonogamous" with two others. In one chapter she says she thinks hunting is horrible, but in the next she thinks abortion is okay. So, it is okay to kill human babies, but not animals?

[Rose]

2015 reading challenge: a book at the bottom of your to-read list

Now I know why it's at the bottom of my reading list.

If she's not giving me history classes, she's giving me recipes. Plus she's vain. She loves talking about herself and how there's apparently a lot of things she can do.
Also, the plot wasn't as good as people make it out to be.

[Linda Smatzny]

This is the third book in the Casebook of Emma Rhodes series. This time Emma decides to help a woman keep her husband. Along the way another woman gets murdered and Emma decides to help another family. Emma is a private resolver who helps people mostly wealthy with their problems. The book was a quick easy read.

[Deb]

Fun