My Nails and My Book Review - The Book Club Murders by Leslie Nagel

**NetGalley**

Title: The Book Club Murders

Series: Oakwood Mystery #1

Author: Leslie Nagel

Goodreads Summary: In a charming cozy mystery series debut, Leslie Nagel’s irrepressible small-town heroine finds that her fellow mystery book club members may be taking their Agatha Christie a bit too literally—and murder a bit too lightly.

Charley Carpenter has poured heart and soul into her clothing store, Old Hat Vintage Fashions. She’ll do anything to make it a success—even join the stuffy Agathas Book Club in order to cultivate customers among Oakwood, Ohio’s wealthy elite. 

Although mixing with the most influential women in town has its advantages, Charley finds the endless gossip a high price to pay. But after two women with close ties to the Agathas are brutally murdered, everyone falls under threat—and suspicion. When key evidence indicates that both murders are the work of the same hand, Charley realizes that the killer has arranged each corpse in perfect imitation of crime scenes from the Club’s murder mystery reading list. She uses her membership in the Club to convince Detective Marcus Trenault to use her as an inside informant. Not that he could stop her anyway.

Intelligent, fearless, and every bit as stubborn as Marc is, Charley soon learns the Agathas aren’t the only ones with secrets to protect. Passions explode as she and Marc must race against time to prevent another murder. And if Charley’s not careful, she may find herself becoming the killer’s next plot twist.

My Review: **I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review**

This book has enough twists to make Agatha Christie proud! There is a lot going on in this story, but I had no trouble following along and making incorrect guesses. It seriously took until right before the killer was revealed for me to figure it out. The writing quality is amazing for a first-in-series.  

My Manicure: So this one took some creative thinking. I knew I wanted to do a book theme, but I had no clue what colors I should do. So I did the logical thing - went to Google. I figured Dayton (the closest big city to the setting) probably had a college, and this is loosely based on the college's colors. The blue is Orly Royal Navy, and the red is China Glaze Ruby Pumps. I love these colors! I don't know why I don't wear them more often. The stamping is done with Pure Ice Silver Star and MJ JR 2.

~Kelly