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The Deadly Directorial Affair (Daisy McDare Cozy Mystery Book 2) Kindle Edition

by K.M. Morgan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

3.6 1,134 ratings

Book 2 of 12: Daisy McDare Cozy Mystery

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"A delightful cozy read with a sweet, cupcake loving sleuth, a quirky cast of characters, and plenty of charm to spare."

Daisy McDare is back with a new case to crack!

Murder once again strikes the quaint little tourist town of Cozy Creek. This time the victim is an arrogant independent film director who has a bad habit of making of enemies.

As the set decorator for the movie, Daisy is in a unique position to do some serious sleuthing. But she can't solve the murder alone.

She enlists her cupcake baking best friend, Samantha, wise cracking, Granny Annie, private investigator crush, Gavin, and her lovable West Highland terrier, Shamus, to find the killer.

Daisy McDare Deadly Affair series book order:
Book 1 -- The Deadly Legal Affair
Book 2 -- The Deadly Directorial Affair
Book 3 -- The Deadly Real Estate Affair
Book 4 -- The Deadly Rock Star Affair
Book 5 -- The Deadly Restaurant Affair
Book 6 -- The Deadly Secret Affair
Book 7 -- The Deadly Rival Affair
Book 8 -- The Deadly Radio Affair
Book 9 -- The Deadly Political Affair
Book 10 -- The Deadly Dinner Theater Affair
Book 11 -- The Deadly Floral Affair
Book 12 -- The Deadly Judicial Affair
Book 13 -- The Deadly Fiery Affair

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B016C4G33K
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (October 7, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 7, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1095 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 118 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #982,002 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,493 in Cozy Craft & Hobby Mysteries
- #4,967 in Cozy Crafts & Hobbies Mystery
- #5,739 in Mystery Romance

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venky

Beware! Daisy can spot you if you lie! Sweet Daisy who loves lot of sweet things nabs the culprit! Fun reading

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2015

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It was fun reading this book. It is light reading, detective in action, well paced, but not intended to make your heart race. Daisy, who is been dumped by her boyfriend, a small town simple girl with her dog and sweet teeth is a interior decorator. When she is contracted to design and redecorate the offices of a law firm, she finds herself meeting the employees who are all united in hating the boss and when the boss is found murdered in his office, Daisy takes it upon herself to get involved in finding who did it!
Daisy uses her in-built antenna to determine the veracity of statements made by the several employees and ultimately snags the culprit. Simple plot, few characters, well knit, cohesive and light.
Have some fun and enjoy a "who did it" book.

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LeahG

Good read, but a few too many sweets

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2015

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This is totally my fault but I think I have read these books out of order. I got book 2 first and then book 5 and now book 3. Because of the order mix up I sometimes get confused about Daisy's relationship status. I really liked this one as I got to see her relationship from where it was in book two to blossom and lead to what I read in book 5.

Daisy is excited to be working as a set director on a movie that is filming in Cozy Creek. While decorating the set Daisy is in the prime location to hear and see all the on set shenanigans. This is useful when the director is murdered and Daisy doesn't trust the bumbling detective to get anything right, even his donut choices are questionable as he frequents another shop instead of Sweet Tooth Bakery.

This was a good cozy mystery. Sometimes its a little bumpy to read, but overall its a quick and entertaining story. Though I was a little disturbed by Daisy's eating in this book. In the other books she has sweets regularly but not enough that its worrisome. This book was a little overboard with the purse cupcakes and brownies and on set food. I felt like I needed a good salad half way just to get through the rest of the book.

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belinda

I recommend this book as a must read to everyone

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2015

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I recommend this book as a must read to everyone, very enjoyable and never wanted d to put it down. Another great book written by a great author. This book did not want me to put it down. It was so mind capturing!

Great mixture of suspense, mystery, drama, intrigue, and need of bakery goods. Needed a little more romance and friendly advice....wasn't as much here as in other books...nor did she have as much need for her bakery goods. (Good for her figure but not for her thought process.)
crumble was soft on daisy and was not shown as so bumbling as before. He and his efforts are barely mentioned. Hard to compare his progress and daisy's in the case. Overall everything was great and came together...story was even pased and had twists that could not be predicted. Kept you guessing and wanting you to keep turtur ning the page find out what happens next. You can not guess until the very last moment who the killer is.

I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Pure escape literature, okay plot, awkward characterizations--popcorn for your mind.

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2015

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'Lite' cozy mystery in a series where each ebook sells for $0.99 apiece and not underpriced. The plot is okay, awkward dialog sometimes. Reminds me of reading the original Nancy Drew books when I was 10, then rereading at 12; and lots of poorly written but enthusiastic mysteries I've read since then, although not as well written as many of them. Pure escape literature. It will take up your time and attention without really much effect.

For one thing, there's so much "elegant variation" for the word "said." It's clear from the dialog what the character's emotion is, then the writer picks a word to replace "said" that doesn't really support the emotional buildup. Isabel's really angry, Isabel's worked up and talking loudly about how angry she is, and the word used is "admitted," a weaker word. This kind of thing is distracting.

You don't really see much about what Daisy actually does as a decorator., just, she's decorating the set in a folksy style, now it should be a different style. Like the author picked decorating because it sounds like a nice safely feminine career that could appear in lots of different settings, but the author doesn't personally find it as interesting as the cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts -- more on that later. Her "investigation" takes the form of asking questions to the point of being annoying, then giving up.

There's very real characterization, little physical description of any character, but there's a lot about EYES. Daisy is always asking somebody questions and their faces are still but their eyes are full of rage. EVERYBODY. A bit overdone. She looks at their eyes, mostly, Eyes, and pastry.

Somebody mentions Daisy's always eating cupcakes. Well, to be fair, she also eats a doughnut, an unknown number of chocolate chip cookies perhaps on several evenings (with her rom coms), a piece of bundt cake, several cupcakes (she keeps one in her purse for "emergencies") and treats stress with chocolate, which she thinks about often until the mystery gets underway..She unwraps a chocolate granola bar as she exits an exercise studio (not there to exercise, but to investigate.) She eats a brownie bite at the craft table, and yearns for a croissant. There is no mention of ANY other food group.

This might be kind of mean but I figure Daisy, regardless of cover illustrations, must be on the heavy side. She walks her dog to the dog park, that's all the exercise she takes. We don't know what sort of climbing or carrying she is doing in her "decorating" work. It's like the author is writing about endless cakes and cookies rather than eating them, but doesn't write about exercise or exertion because that's no fun.

And Daisy seems to be eating at the end of nearly every scene: sad = eat cookies, stressed = eat cupcake. I was expecting to find the next book would be Daisy McDare the Diabetic Decorator, who figures out why she is Type 2 diabetic before elderly Dr. McPyles even gets the results of her blood sugar test. Oh, her best friend has a bakery so Daisy gets freebies. And the friend bought the bakery from an 80-year old lady who makes weird remarks for comic relief, and then goes off to the kitchen -- reminds me of Janet Evanovich's Grandma Mazur and her daughter, the mother constantly cooking or ironing in Stephanie Plum stories. Maybe the older lady does more in other books? Hope so, in this book she has little to do and just seems derivative.

The goodies and her broken heart are the main things in Daisy's mind. There's a possible romance but oh it isn't working. The awkwardness of the dialog serves the author better here.

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Simple

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2020

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A really nice gentle mystery. No unpleasantness at all. If you like a simple plot and nice storylines this is one for you.

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Not a very good read, very boring and too much nonsense about ...

Reviewed in Canada on July 2, 2015

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Not a very good read, very boring and too much nonsense about food. Read it halfway then just skipped thru the rest to the end. There are too many other good books to read, don't waste your time.

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Oh dear

Reviewed in Canada on June 19, 2015

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I can't think of anything good to say: I did not enjoy this at all. Extremely poorly written, unoriginal and unbelievable plot. It read like a grade eight English project from a C- student.

BrainybirdAA

Boring. Did not finish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2015

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I sometimes like to read something light and fluffy to help clear my head and just to relax. I liked the cover and the hint of mystery and fun, however I had to give up at chapter nine. I was bored with the dialogue, bored with the 'I said, she said, he said. Bored with the explanations and detailed history of everyone mentioned. Too much telling and not enough action to keep me reading. This is the one and only book of K. M. Morgan's books I have read and although I think the series has potential I am not sure I will try anymore. If someone can convince me the story gets better I will give it another go.

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