A Tourist's Guide to Murder (Mystery Bookshop #6)

by V.M. Burns

My twin nephews, Christopher and Zaq, had both just turned twenty-one. Each had brought a date. Christopher’s date was a very serious young woman with a short pixie cut hairstyle and wire-rimmed glasses. I think she said her name was Tiffany or Brittney or some other Nee.

Melanie or Stephanie, or whatever her name, was ultra conservative and unyielding in her opinions on everything from capital punishment to abortion to gun control.

Sam is very judgmental and can't remember the name of her nephew's date and doesn't seem to care.

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions; however, she would have fared better by not sharing her opinions quite so adamantly or by not calling her date’s great-grandmother a liberal, left-wing commie, especially not to her face.

Zaq’s date was Emma Lee, a petite Asian American with dark hair, almond-shaped eyes, and the loveliest southern accent.

Isn't there a better way to describe her?

Dorothy, like Nana Jo, was a vibrant older woman who was just shy of six feet tall and teetering toward three hundred pounds.

She seems preoccupied with people's weight and size. Judgemental.

Ruby Mae was an African American woman with skin the color of coffee with a touch of cream and salt-and-pepper hair that she wore pulled back in a bun.

Also obsessed with people's race and looks. Do

large-breasted woman in a dress

UGGHHHHH

kind gray-haired woman

glamourous woman

Yes she actually describes people this way.

Mediterranean god

eye roll

Sebastian Rothchild-Black, indeed. You can’t honestly believe I’d be associated with a Jew.”

Yikes! For real? In public??

That would mean that I am the Earl of Lochloren, not you.” He pointed at Victor. “That means I own Bidwell Cottage, and you two are mere interlopers.

Actually no, you're illigititimate so you can't inherit the title or property. Any period Anglophile should know that and all the other etiquette and everything that would make the books plausible.

EMT

Isn't that an American term?