It’s 1958 at the Pinnacle Hotel in Manhattan. Evelyn Grace Murphy, the owner’s daughter, is enjoying the fundraiser party she’s arranged for local politicians. Her assistant and boyfriend, Mac Cooper, suggests they duck out so he can show her his apartment. He’ll drive her Rolls Royce. But when they enter the parking garage, Evelyn spots a shadow a few cars down. It appears to be someone sitting inside another car. A closer inspection reveals it’s the dead body of Judge Baker, whom she’d just seen at the party. But even more puzzling is the woman locked in the car’s trunk. When the police detective targets her and Mac as prime suspects, Evelyn vows to solve the case. This historical mystery is a delight to read with the heroine’s endearing personality, the luxurious hotel setting, and the murders that keep piling up. Evelyn must connect the dots in order to catch a killer while dealing with her father’s disapproval and the detective who’s watching her every move.

Second in the series, this book is every bit as wonderful and fun as the first. Evelyn, the daughter of an extremely wealthy and influential man, lives in the hotel they own, The Pinnacle. Slightly agoraphobic, definitely quirky, and fashion forward, she’s smart but pretends to be dumb, and above all loves to solve problems, aka murders. . Which is good because in this book there are four bodies, as well as an attack on her father who survives. Never boring because of Evelyn, this is a fun series, and I hope there are many more to come.
However, I am pleading with author and publisher to have Evelyn stop calling her boyfriend, Lover instead of his name. It’s cringeworthy, and I had to cringe a great deal because in the first third of the book alone she uses Lover more than 15 times. Definitely used almost every time she talks to him, I wanted to put the book down because it’s too annoying and took away some of my enjoyment. Definitely knocked it down from a 5 to a 4.