Book Review: Murder, She Wrote: Design by Murder by Jessica Fletcher

Design For Murder by Jessica Fletcher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Once again, Jessica Fletcher solves a murder, this time with a murder dealing with two models during NYC Fashion Week.

I enjoyed this book, but what took me out of it was the detective, Aaron Kopecky, coming around every time she wanted to do something. It irritated me, like he wanted her to be his new wife because he talks about her ALL THE TIME. It got on my last nerve, and I wanted to scream, because bruh, I wanted him to focus on his job, not on her. I felt like he showed up and wanted to be around Jessica, not giving her any room to breathe or to do anything, but in a Jessica way, he does back off and he gets that she's not interested in him right now.

But the mystery felt...boring, in my opinion. Two models died--one was seventeen, another twenty-something, and they were and weren't weirdly connected. One died from a poisonous lipstick while another was killed in her apartment by someone named Jordon Verne. I kept trying to figure out what was going on in the story, to see if I could figure it out...But I thought that the doctor did it, but when this Jordon Verse confessed after being in a room with both Jessica and Sandy Black, then I just felt...disappointed.

I wanted it to be a bit...better, in my opinion. But all it did was make me a bit sad and a little bit excited for it, and I did enjoy myself reading this book because this was all I really wanted to read once I was done with Shield of Sparrows. But because of the stalking Detective and the clues that kinda went nowhere, I'm giving this book a 4.75 stars.

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Book Review: Murder, She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed by Jessica Fletcher

Aloha Betrayed by Jessica Fletcher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Aloha Betrayed was a really good book. We follow Jessica Fletcher as she goes to Maui to teach a class with retired detective Mike Kane. She meets a botanist professor named Mala Kapule, and she invites Jessica to a luau, where Jessica overhears two men talking about something-maybe Mala? But then the next morning, Mala is found dead, and just like the show, that's how this book kicks off.

I liked how Jessica and Mike teamed up to find out who killed Mala, and I also liked the Hawaiian sayings at the beginning of the chapters as we go around the island to find out who killed Mala. It felt like an old-school episode of Murder, She Wrote, and I loved how both Jessica and Mike figured out who did it. I felt like I was there with them, trying to figure out who did it with them. The one thing that confused me while I was reading this book was the whole Bob and Elaine side story. Elaine kept saying 'Oh Bob' while Bob just says and does the most random thing ever, and then they move on as if this couple was working out their problems while on their trip to Maui.

Abbott and his wife kinda didn't make any sense until the end. I was shocked that it was Mrs. Luzon that killed Mala-I thought it was something totally different that killed her like Jessica thought-but thanks to a little boy who saw something and was kept quiet about it, that's when Jessica knew that something was off. When the boy, Kono, runs away from home, Jessica and the other townspeople try and find him, and the part I liked about this was the fact that Aunt Edie, Mala's Auntie, started to pray to Uli, and Jessica was confused at first about it, but when the boy was found, unharmed because of the cane stalk fires, all of us was relieved.

The ending with Professor Luzon and his wife shocked me the most, mostly because she snapped after all these years of getting mentally abused while Professor Luzon went after every pretty girl he saw. When she finally snapped, though, I felt like Professor Luzon deserved it. It was just odd and weird, and was very unexpected.

I would love to read more in the written books of Murder, She Wrote while watching the show at the same time, this one was a really good one.

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