COAT OF MANY COLORS: Maisey Friedman Mystery( Dressed to Kill 1) by Deanndra Hall-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 6, 2025

A dangerous killer, a psychic, and the coat that has all the answers …

Maisey and Aaron Friedman (Justice for Maisey) are enjoying married life and their new blended family. But everything changes after the social worker’s simple trip to a consignment shop where she finally purchases a coat she’s had her eye on.

Despite Aaron deeming the coat “ugly,” Maisey still loves the garment, and she’s sure he’ll love it too when she models it for him. But when she wakes up on the floor with her deputy sheriff husband standing over her, concern in his eyes, Maisey knows something is terribly wrong. The coat’s sad origin reveals an unsolved slaying, and without the victim to help them, the Friedmans begin their attempts to solve the case using the secrets the coat reveals in Maisey’s psychic visions as their only clues.

But as they delve deeper into the mysteries of the coat, the murderer refuses to allow them to uncover the truth. Suddenly, Maisey’s security is in question, leaving Aaron and his crew of hometown heroes to strategize ways of keeping her safe while unearthing the identity of the culprit. The coat comes with answers, but will those answers be the catalyst that puts them all in danger?

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REVIEW: COAT OF MANY COLORS is the first instalment in Deanndra Hall’s contemporary, adult MAISEY FRIEDMAN MYSTERY-DRESSED TO KILL paranormal, cozy mystery series focusing on social worker Maisey Friedman, a woman with psychic abilities. DRESSED TO KILL -Maisey Friedman Mystery is a spin off from the author’s JUSTICE FOR MAISEY -Police and Fire: Operation Alpha (Bluegrass Bravery) with the inclusion of the characters Maisey and Aaron Friedman. (March 2021)

Told from omniscient third person perspective (Maisey) COAT OF MANY COLORS focuses on the search for the truth. Approximately nine months earlier a nineteen year old pageant contestant named Victoria Hunt was brutally murdered, and her killer was never found. Fast forward to present day, social worker Maisey Friedman, having purchased a coat from a local thrift store, falls through the proverbial rabbit hole, witnessing the murder of the woman who had previously owned the coat. With the help of her husband Deputy Aaron Friedman, Maisey begins an investigation into the murder of Victoria Hunt, a murder predicated upon greed and madness.

The world building follows Maisey as her journey into the darkness continues to reveal the secrets long thought buried and dead. As Maisey and Aaron begin to ferret out the truth, Maisey is targeted for by the person responsible.

The relationship between Maisey and Aaron begins in the author’s JUSTICE FOR MAISEY, a part of the author’s Police and Fire: Operation Alpha (Bluegrass Bravery), erotic, romantic suspense series. Months earlier, Maisey fell in love with Deputy Aaron Friedman, while they worked together to solve the murder of Maisey’s co-worker, now their love forges a relationship wherein Maisey’s abilities help to solve crime.There are no $ex scenes-everything is implied.

COAT OF MANY COLORS is a story of murder and redemption, secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, redemption and retribution. The premise is dramatic ; the characters are determined. The crimes are committed off page; the $ex scenes fade to black or are mostly implied.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).

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