Assault and Beret
Written by Jenn McKinlay
Narrated by Karyn O'Bryant
4/5
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About this audiobook
William Graham is not only handsome and charming, but he also has a glamorous job as an insurance investigator who works with priceless pieces of art, most recently a small Renoir that has been discovered in a junk shop. But when both Will and the masterpiece suddenly disappear, it's up to the ladies from London to follow the trail of clues. They'll need to hold on to their chapeaus, however, because someone is a master in the art of deception . . .
Jenn McKinlay
Jenn McKinlay is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several mystery series, including the Good Buy Girls series and the Decoupage Mystery series, which she wrote under the pseudonyms Josie Belle and Lucy Lawrence. A former librarian, she studied English literature and library science at Southern Connecticut State University before moving to Arizona, where she lives in a house that is overrun with kids, pets, and her husband’s guitars. For more information, visit her at www.jennmckinlay.com.
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Reviews for Assault and Beret
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reading this novel was very bittersweet! - Sweet as always to read as the novels in this series were my introduction to novels by Jenn McKinlay and I absolutely fell in love with the entire cast of characters! I've adored spending time w/characters Scarlet (Ginger), Viv, Fee, Harrison (Harry), and everyone we as readers met through the adventures at Mim's Whims on Portobello Road including the incredible dinner gatherings at the home of neighbors Nick Carroll and Andre Eisel. With this novel setting in the beautiful city of Paris - doubly sweet!
However, a few days before I planned to read "Assault & Beret" I learned that this novel is the end of the A Hat Shop Mystery Series. Oh my! That added the bittersweet thoughts to the reading - I couldn't wait to follow the adventures of Scarlett and Viv in their travel to Paris but the ending came much too soon! How I'll miss all of the characters! I haven't felt this way since reading "1225 Christmas Tree Lane" (last novel of the Cedar Cove Series) by Debbie Macomber. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5London hat-maker Vivian Tremont is teaching a millinery class in Paris and has taken along her American cousin and business partner Scarlett Parker along. Certainly, they can’t get into too much trouble, right? Viv is hoping Scarlett can help her find her husband William Graham and that they can convince him to sign the papers for an annulment of their marriage. Vivian has some vague reasons for ending the relationship, which had barely gotten off the ground.Soon after beginning the search for Will, Scarlett finds him – he’s an investigator/appraiser with a high-end art insurance firm. And, after a reunion dinner, he shows Viv and Scarlett a Renoir that is involved in one of his latest cases. The painting was given to a museum, stolen from the museum, sold at a flea-market and then returned to Will’s insurance firm, which paid out on the painting years ago. Then Will and the painting turn up missing and the flea-market buyer turns up dead. Soon the girls’ male friends make the trip across the channel to help protect them. Assault and Beret is the latest in a lovely cozy series that has just the right amount of romance but not too much to put off readers who like their mysteries unadulterated, as I do.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! Great book! One of the best cozies I have ever read. Well Done!!!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5"Well that was all kinds of awful. This series stared out so strong with a fun setting (a hat shop in London), and fun characters, but just got progressively weaker with every book. The duel tracks that the mc's (Scarlett) mind constantly ran on: "I'm so attracted to Harrison!" and "No! I can't get involved with any man for 1 year!" were petty and immature, especially as their repetition through 5 books just got more and more frequent. Scarlett also never seemed to really mature in any other way either. By the end, she was, if anything, more shallow and childish that she was when the series began. But the plot of this one really just takes the cake for silliness, implausibility, and just... it was crap. I don't even know what the author's goal was with Will and Alistair but it was a fail. I didn't want to DNF the book because I was in it for a resolution for Scarlett and Harrison, and I may have gotten it but it was soured by the pure stupid of the plot itself. This was the final book in the series, to which I can only say thank goodness. It was a concept with a lot of promise that was treated badly and I'm glad to see the backside of it."
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reading this novel was very bittersweet! - Sweet as always to read as the novels in this series were my introduction to novels by Jenn McKinlay and I absolutely fell in love with the entire cast of characters! I've adored spending time w/characters Scarlet (Ginger), Viv, Fee, Harrison (Harry), and everyone we as readers met through the adventures at Mim's Whims on Portobello Road including the incredible dinner gatherings at the home of neighbors Nick Carroll and Andre Eisel. With this novel setting in the beautiful city of Paris - doubly sweet!
However, a few days before I planned to read "Assault & Beret" I learned that this novel is the end of the A Hat Shop Mystery Series. Oh my! That added the bittersweet thoughts to the reading - I couldn't wait to follow the adventures of Scarlett and Viv in their travel to Paris but the ending came much too soon! How I'll miss all of the characters! I haven't felt this way since reading "1225 Christmas Tree Lane" (last novel of the Cedar Cove Series) by Debbie Macomber. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Viv is in Paris to teach a millinery class and Scarlett has tagged along to try to find Viv's estranged husband. Viv has decided that an annulment is in order but needs to get in touch with her spouse whom they have tracked to Paris. This husband is an art appraiser and is anxious to show Viv a recovered Renoir that had been stolen from a museum. He also wants to get back together. Mon Deux, what a mess. When the husband and the Renoir go missing, Scarlett is on the case.I just love this book. Less about hats in this one, but that is OK. McKinlay did a wonderful job of making feel like I was in Paris with them. As always, the mystery was very good and there is a nice twist. By the end of the book, all the regular characters from the series manage to make an appearance. I have heard that this is the last book in the series. It does have an nice tie-up at the end. But I can still hope for more.