{"id":43295,"date":"2025-12-17T05:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/?p=43295"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:53:04","slug":"murder-pays-a-call-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/murder-pays-a-call-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Murder Pays a Call&#8221; by Nancy J. Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4qfybmR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MurderPaysaCall-663x1024.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43296 lazyload\" style=\"width:250px\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MurderPaysaCall-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43296\" style=\"width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MurderPaysaCall-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MurderPaysaCall-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MurderPaysaCall-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MurderPaysaCall-768x1186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MurderPaysaCall.jpg 971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Murder Pays a Call<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nancy J. Cohen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>Orange Grove Press (2025)<br>ISBN: 978-1952886379<br>Reviewed by Kassia Scotti for Reader Views (11\/2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nancy J. Cohen\u2019s <em>Murder Pays a Call<\/em> follows the murder of Keri Armstrong\u2019s beloved client, Fiona Sullivan. Keri, a private concierge, shows up to Fiona\u2019s house one day ready to deliver groceries in return for some morning small talk. Instead, Keri finds Fiona dead in her bed. The room is a mess, which the police think is the product of a robbery. Keri isn\u2019t convinced, and she makes it her mission to get to the bottom of things. Keri talks to and works alongside many different people while trying her best to solve Fiona\u2019s murder. From investigating suspicious neighbors to family drama, Keri learns that secrets may come with a price, and that some people aren\u2019t who they say they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intricacies of murder mysteries are always something that will catch my attention. It is a true challenge to make sure that everything lines up in a believable way while keeping the reader on their toes. It almost felt like I was Keri\u2019s confidant, always ready for the next twist or discovery of new information. It was immersive and made for a fun game of \u201cWho Done It.\u201d The writing captures the glamour of Keri\u2019s profession while highlighting all the ways her new mystery-solving duties have thrown a wrench in her everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I enjoyed the circle of characters Keri had around her. I was constantly questioning who I could trust, as well as who Keri could trust. At first, I was worried that Keri might be too fast to reveal information to people, but in the end all the clues fell into place in a satisfying way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bond that stayed strong was that between Keri and Fiona. While Keri uncovers some secrets about Fiona she might not have expected, she never loses her affection for her friend, and her sadness at her loss never wavers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Murder Pays a Call: A Keri Armstrong Cozy Mystery<\/em> by Nancy J. Cohen is a great novel for anyone looking to read a lighthearted mystery with a well-rounded list of suspects. I\u2019d definitely love to see what other kinds of trouble Keri gets herself into, and I\u2019m eager to know more about the secrets of Sunny Grove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy J. Cohen\u2019s Murder Pays a Call follows the murder of Keri Armstrong\u2019s beloved client, Fiona Sullivan. Keri, a private concierge, shows up to Fiona\u2019s house one day ready to deliver groceries in return for some morning small talk. Instead, Keri finds Fiona dead in her bed. The room is a mess, which the police think is the product of a robbery. Keri isn\u2019t convinced, and she makes it her mission to get to the bottom of things. Keri talks to and works alongside many different people while trying her best to solve Fiona\u2019s murder. From investigating suspicious neighbors to family drama, Keri learns that secrets may come with a price, and that some people aren\u2019t who they say they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,295,3614,3615],"tags":[8707,69,8704,8705,8706,72],"class_list":["post-43295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-cozy-mystery","category-fiction","category-mystery-thriller-suspense","tag-a-keri-armstrong-cozy-mystery","tag-book-review","tag-murder-pays-a-call","tag-nancy-j-cohen","tag-orange-grove-press","tag-reader-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43298,"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43295\/revisions\/43298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerviews.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}