Evening The Score

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Summary: A Great Second Book in the Kate Carpenter Mystery Series
Review: Everyone needs a little excitement in their lives, but Kate Carpenter seems to get more than her share. Deborah Nicholson's second novel in the Kate Carpenter Mystery Series, Evening the Score, weaves a tangled web of love, hate, deceit and murder.
When the concert hall at the Calgary Arts Complex floods, a world piano competition is moved into Kate's theatre. She can manage that all right, but can she manage the unexpected appearance of a world-famous conductor and former lover with his wife and child in tow? What does she say to Cam when he catches them in a compromising position? Is she still in love with Stephan?
Evening the Score will keep you on the edge of your seat and may even leave you hanging from the second balcony. I read my advance copy in one sitting and am now anxiously awaiting book three.
My recommendation? Don't miss Evening the Score.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: Kate Carpenter can't seem to stay out of trouble as we are taken into the second book of this outstanding mystery series. It was a good feeling to already be familiar with Kate, her boyfriend Cam, her assistant Graham and the delightful police detective Ken, whose main job seems to be protecting Kate from being murdered.

Kate and Cam have just returned from a well deserved vacation after finding a body in the theater and solving the murder. However, their bliss would be short lived as a long lost love from Kate's past will suddenly reappear in Kate's life. As fate would have it, a flood at the Calgary Arts Complex causes the world piano competition to be moved into Kate's theater, and with it comes Kate's long ago lover, his wife, his daughter and another adventure.

Yes, we have another murder and this time it becomes quite personal for Kate, and more dangerous then she ever thought possible. Ah! The plot thickens.

I was very impressed with the twists and turns that the author weaved into this mystery. I really thought I had this figured out and was actually shocked at the ending being totally fooled at who the killer was; now that is a good mystery book.
I loved the way the author ended the work with a knock at the door and then not telling you who was there, but allowing you to know they shocked Cam, whoever it was. That was just plain unfair, now I have to know! Who was it? And what mystery is this going to lead into?

"Evening The Score" is a great work, one full of twist, turns, mystery, love, adventure and even some humor. Don't miss this one readers. Recommended highly.
Shirley Johnson
Senior Reviewer
MidWest Book Review