Dying for a Dance

If you like the idea of Dancing with the Stars combined with a murder mystery, you’ll love "Dying for a Dance."  Laurel McKay is trying to learn a ballroom dance routine for her best friend’s wedding. She has two left feet, but things only go downhill from there. One of the dance instructors is found dead with Laurel’s shoe heel stuffed in his mouth.
A murder mystery, a wedding, ballroom dancing… what more could you want? How about a hunky detective thrown into the mix? Detective Tom Hunter is Laurel’s ex-boyfriend, but the attraction is still very much alive. This isn’t Laurel’s first murder mystery, and her boss quickly pulls her in deeper when his wife becomes the prime suspect and he asks Laurel to help clear her.

In between learning to dance and playing detective, Laurel is a single mom juggling two kids. She’s also struggling with her mom’s decision to remarry and the hustle bustle of the holiday season. The whole family heads to Tahoe for the wedding, the same location as the ballroom dance competition. Here, the mystery finally comes to an exciting conclusion.

"Dying for a Dance" will leave you guessing until the very end and enjoying the ride while you are trying to figure it out. The twists and turns, no pun intended of course, are fun and the writing is witty and amusing. Cindy Sample makes murder entertaining in all the right ways. It’s a fast, entertaining read.

I only wish I had read "Dying for a Date," the first in this series. I wanted Laurel, as fun as she was, to be more fleshed out. Maybe that was done in the first book, but I don’t know and neither would other readers who picked up this book first. The gap of not knowing is all that kept this from being a five-star read.


Dying for a Dance
Cindy Sample
L & L Dreamspell 2011
ISBN 9781603184274
Reviewed byTia Bach for RebeccasReads (1/12)