Book 1 of this new series - Murder at the Blue Stop was quite fun. The story as seen through the eyes of Grabiella Santos shows us how she escapes her over-protective family to Chicago where she finds herself in over her head.

In comes Shane, an ex-special forces and bar owner where Gabriella is singing. They clash until he calls upon her for help.

Loved getting to know the characters and I'm looking forward to reading book 2.

Music, murder, and romance all converge at The Blues Stop bar. Gabriella just wants to prove that she's not the screw-up she's always seemed to be to her family. Shane's just looking to live his life when Gabriella waltzes into it. Sparks fly between them as bullets fly around them, and the tension heightens in this captivating, suspenseful mystery. Who would've guessed that a blues singer and ex-special forces operative would make for such a compelling pair? A great page-turner.

This book was super interesting and I know I'd like to read more around this, and by the author for sure. The biggest issue for me was that the relationships were not always the most fleshed out and clear, but apart from that I thought the general execution of this book was good and I'd read the rest of the series.

A great murder mystery that draws you in from the beginning. I loved the main character Gabriella as she was bold and had a big personality. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to be transported into a world for a couple of hours.

Blues singer Gabriella has left her Florida home to take up a singing residency in a small Chicago blues bar. Where she get caught up in murder and mayhem in an attempt to save her moody boss Shane.

Sassy independent woman, unattainable alpha male and mystery. What’s not to love?

I received a free electronic copy of this mystery novel from Netgalley, Wendy Byrne, and Two O's Publishing. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this novel of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work. Murder at the Blues Stop is an excellent contemporary mystery, told well, with personable protagonists, a winding, windy mystery, and a simple need to bet on this girl despite her rep. I thoroughly enjoyed Murder at the Blues Stop. I am pleased to recommend Wendy Byrne to friends and family. She is an author I will follow.

Ms. Byrne brings us a contemporary mystery novel set in Chicago, the first of the Santos Family Mysteries. Gabriella Santos has had a relaxed bid for achieving maturity, and despite having a great voice to carry the blues, she feels completely left in the shade by her brilliant, serious siblings and parents. The Santos name in Florida and the deep south screams respectable, public-minded go-getters. And then there is Gabby. As she sees herself, her assets are her voice, her sense of style, her stockpile of Jimmy Choos and Ferragamos, and her ability to find something good in everyone she meets. She leads with her heart, so her life choices are often flawed, her boyfriends are unquestionably wrong for both her and society and she is quickly bailed out of every mishap she encounters by her hovering family. Her solution - taking a month-long gig singing at a Chicago bar called The Blues Stop. She doesn't have even one relative in the windy city. She actually has no family above the Mason-Dixon line. She CAN take care of herself!

Despite the fact that she is basically fired by one of the two new owners of The Blues Stop the first hour of her first day, she WILL stick around and make this work. It would be simple enough to grab the next flight back to Florida but then she would have one more stone of failure piled on the family temple of rescues, and she can't let that happen. She will stay in this job - and not only because she sees it as her proof of maturity as far as her family is concerned, but also because she finds co-owner ex-military Shane O'Neil irresistible. Even after the bullets start flying too close to her personal space...

This book is such a fun read! Gabriella is sassy, talented, and resilient. When the last performer at The Blues Stop is suddenly discovered dead in alley, Gabriella starts to feel a bit of concern. Everything is not what it seems in this small town. Gabriella has to decide if it's worth it to help solve this mystery or if she should just go home back to Florida.

The idea of the book was great, but I felt like it was not executed very well. The relationships were not fleshed out well and I did not feel any chemistry between the two main characters. I liked them separately, but I felt like something was missing. I think this book should have been longer and had more details. Right now it felt like reading a second or third installment in a series were you mostly had no clue what had happened before.

Mesmerizing tale of a Blues singer rescuing an ex-special forces agent from danger, a frame, and his past. The chemistry will snare you, the mystery will keep you hanging on. A 5-star must read that will hook you on this new series.

This is Shane and Gabriella’s book, Gabriella is the sexy stiletto wearing blues singer! Shane is ex special forces turned private detective and very reluctant bar owner. Gabriella, after a whole slew of bad relationships and a very overprotective family, runs off for a gig in Chicago to prove she’s not the flaky woman her family think she is! But when she gets to know the very sexy bar owner, she thinks she may have bitten off more than she can chew! Shane has a long list of things he doesn’t like starting with the cops! He also doesn’t like the sexy new blue singer at his bar, she’s pushy and high maintenance and sassy, and too sexy for her own good!! But when he ends up almost beaten to death in a Chicago Alley Gabriella is the one who nurses him back to health! Despite the sizzling chemistry between them can they find the balance between trust and commitment to see this relationship through? I really really love this book! It had a awesome story, it’s not really my usual read but I really loved it! I did have to takeoff a star because it’s told all in Gabriella’s POV I really can’t stand that LOL I was absolutely dying to know what Shane was thinking ?! UGH it bothers me so bad!! But the story made up for that, that’s why I gave it four stars normally in a single POV I only go two or three at the most but this book was really really good I just wish I knew what shane was thinking! And the book in a few spots kept pausing after almost every word?! But hopefully that’ll be fixed before it’s released? Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!