Yellow Tape - BookWyrm

English language

Published 2024 by Alicia Ellis LLC.

ISBN:: 978-1-939452-61-0

(1 review)

Two estranged sisters, one father accused of murder, zero time to catch up.

Ivy and Rose share only one thing: a father they don't know. Ivy, an on-leave FBI agent with a predilection for order, and Rose, a reformed hacker with a knack for chaos, are summoned to their father's private investigations office when he goes missing. The sisters come running and finally meet—over his assistant's corpse.

With their dad the number-one suspect in this brutal murder, Rose hatches a plan to pose as his partners. She and Ivy tackle a wealthy client's case in a small town with big secrets, all the while digging up dirt on the townspeople's ties to their father and his assistant's death.

Can these odd-couple sisters work two cases, or will one of them be next to disappear?

Fans of Janet Evanovich, Jasmine Webb, and TV's Castle, who like traditional mysteries with twists, red …

Two estranged sisters, one father accused of murder, zero time to catch up.

Ivy and Rose share only one thing: a father they don't know. Ivy, an on-leave FBI agent with a predilection for order, and Rose, a reformed hacker with a knack for chaos, are summoned to their father's private investigations office when he goes missing. The sisters come running and finally meet—over his assistant's corpse.

With their dad the number-one suspect in this brutal murder, Rose hatches a plan to pose as his partners. She and Ivy tackle a wealthy client's case in a small town with big secrets, all the while digging up dirt on the townspeople's ties to their father and his assistant's death.

Can these odd-couple sisters work two cases, or will one of them be next to disappear?

Fans of Janet Evanovich, Jasmine Webb, and TV's Castle, who like traditional mysteries with twists, red herrings, and humor, will love this fast-paced series opener.

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Redge reviewed Yellow Tape by Alicia Ellis

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5 stars

After having read Alicia Ellis’s YA sci-fi mystery series Flesh and Metal, I was looking forward to reading more of her mysteries, and the “Gray Girls” did not disappoint.

I found by-the-book Ivy and very-much-not-so Rose to be interesting and compelling main characters I enjoyed getting to know. More often than not, their strong personalities set them on a collision course, yet they turned out to be a formidable team whenever they managed to get over their various hangups and brought their respective strengths to bear.

I was a bit disappointed that their investigation of the mystery that brought the sisters together - the disappearance of their father - didn’t seem to make much progress. But since this is the first book in a series, I assume more pieces to that puzzzle will be revealed over the course of the following books.

Subjects

Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Fiction, thrillers, general