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R.I.P. in Reykjavík: A Traveler Cozy Mystery
by A R Kennedy
Have you ever traveled with your mother? I have and we have had a lot of fun.
We’ve gotten lost in Boston. We’ve enjoyed mojitos and nachos in Miami. We’ve frozen in Chicago. While traveling, we’ve watched baseball games in nine different Major League Baseball stadiums.
But my relationship with my mother is far different than the one Naomi has with her mother, Deirdre. One, my mother raised me, while Naomi was primarily raised by her father.
I think a lot of daughters would enjoy a trip with their mother but I don’t know too many single women who would be thrilled to learn that their travel companions on vacation are a wedding party. Especially when you’re traveling with their judgmental mother.
Naomi isn’t looking forward to traveling with her mother at all. (You’ll have to read R.I.P. in Reykjavik to find out how they wound up traveling together.) If she could run away when she meets the others on their tour, a wedding party, she would. Especially since when she met Milo, the groom, she thought he was single, attractive and interested in her! Akward-ness all around.
Will this mother-daughter duo find a way to co-exist and enjoy their Icelandic vacation? And solve a murder? Check out R.I.P in Reykjavik to find out!
Thank you for stopping by today, Alicia!
About R.I.P. in Reykjavík
R.I.P. in Reykjavík: A Traveler Cozy Mystery
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting – Iceland
Independently Published (May 19, 2020)
Print Length: 149 pages
Digital ASIN: B08477CQTR
Traveling with your family can be murder.
One wedding party + one estranged mother = another vacation that goes array for Naomi.
Naomi is off on another international vacation. She thinks traveling with her mother will be the most difficult part of her trip until she meets the rest of the tour group—a wedding party. It only gets worse when she finds the groom dead. Everyone’s a suspect on her Icelandic tour of this stunning country.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
It’s time for another adventure for Naomi and this time her mother invites herself along paying no attention to the packing instructions or itinerary. Naomi immediately knows she will have her hand’s fulls when her mother starts flirting with every man she meets. Plus her mother is just full of barbs at her daughter. It should be a great trip.
They arrive in Iceland and meet the rest of their group, a wedding party complete with the bride’s parents and maid of honor and best man on the honeymoon trip. Their very first excursion ends on a bad note with one of the wedding party dead in the water literally. With everyone now a suspect, and Naomi with one murder mystery solved under her belt, she starts investigating this Icelandic. murder knowing the killer could be anyone.
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This is another fun mystery from A.R. Kennedy.
I love traveling with Naomi. She goes off the beaten path and takes us to such interesting places. First, on a Safari, and now to Iceland in this story. I have always heard that Iceland should be called Greenland and Greenland should be called Iceland and Naomi confirms that. Swimming in the freezing waters and hiking the glaciers were just two excursions I would love to have tried. Ms. Kennedy does an excellent job taking us to exciting places, even without a murder.
The author has introduced a very interesting group of characters this time. Parents and friends along on a honeymoon are not my idea of a good time, but it sure works for this story. I did love that Naomi’s sister Charlotte was still part of the story, albeit from afar. Her mother texting her sister basically tattling on every move Naomi makes and Naomi texting Charlotte on ways to deal with her mother. It really added humor to the whole book.
The mystery is like a closed room mystery with all the suspects known and amateur sleuth Naomi following the clues and uncovering secrets. It is well-plotted with a twisted ending that caught me by surprise.
As soon as I finished R.I.P. in Reykjavík
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About A. R. Kennedy
A. R. Kennedy lives in Long Beach, New York, with her two pups. She works hard to put food on the floor for them. As her favorite T-shirt says, ‘I work so my dog can have a better life’. She’s an avid traveler. But don’t worry. While she’s away, her parents dote on their grand-puppies even more than she does. Her writing is a combination of her love of travel, animals, and the journey we all take to find ourselves.
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Iceland sounds like such an exciting place to go. Thanks for the chance to win a book about it.
Iceland is a great vacation spot.
Good luck in the drawing for the book.
A R
Thank you for the great review. (I commented yesterday but it didn’t go through 🙁 )
A R
Great cover! Makes the book sound mysterious & “deadly!” Just watched the Hallmark movie LOve on Iceland yesterday. Looks like a beautiful place & a great coutry to visit… without a murder, please!