{"id":10319,"date":"2024-04-12T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=10319"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:59:03","slug":"lyn-reviews-heather-havens-the-dagger-before-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/lyn-reviews-heather-havens-the-dagger-before-me","title":{"rendered":"Lyn Reviews Heather Haven’s The Dagger Before Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>The Dagger Before Me<\/a> by Heather Haven<\/a>
\nMy rating: 5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dagger Before Me, by Heather Haven was the first book I have read by this author. The subtitle for the 3 book box set of the first three in the series is \u201cBlazing a Trail as one of Manhattan’s first female gumshoes.\u201d Percy, short for Persephone, Cole, lives on the lower East side of New York City in the early 1940s. Miss Haven has the period hard-nose PI down to a T (despite the fact that Percy is plump, 5\u201911\u201d and is a single mom). Despite these factors, Percy is so much like the early Perry Mason\u2014so audacious and always skating close what\u2019s legal and what isn\u2019t. (If you’d like to read an early Erle Stanley Gardner try The Case of the Shoplifter\u2019s Shoe.) Altogether this first book in the series really charmed me, entertained me. And kept me guessing! I\u2019m now reading book 2 Iced Diamonds. I\u2019m so glad that she offered this 3 book box set on sale-one the ways I discover new authors!<\/p>\n

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