Solid cozy mystery with paranormal emphasis

The House That Vanity Built (A Misty Dawn Mystery Book 2)

By: Nancy Cole Silverman

Rating: 4 of 5

This is the second in the Misty Dawn mystery series. While it was certainly a good mystery to read, it was not as funny as the first book in the series.

Things became more serious when it came down to the situation under which the murder took place. A murder takes place that brings many individuals under suspicion and brings Misty into the fray to try to solve it.

Misty is approached by a young woman whose extravagant engagement ring has gone missing and needs her help to locate it before the wedding day. When the same young woman is implicated in a murder, Misty feels honor bound to try to help her.

The book seemed to spend a lot of time describing what ghost, luminaries and shades (paranormal apparitions all three) can do and what they cannot do. As someone who doesn’t read serious paranormals, this became a little heavy reading. I like mysteries, including mysteries which have amusing paranormal sidekicks.

Apart from that and the more serious tone of the mystery, it was a good cozy mystery story. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series and am hoping it brings back the lighter tone of the first novel.

I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher via Edelweiss.