The Homicide Hustle: A Ballroom Dance Mystery (Ballroom Dance Mystery, #3)

by Ella Barrick

One of them has been eliminated…permanently.

The traveling TV dance show, Ballroom with the B-Listers, is coming to Washington, D.C., and ballroom dancer Stacy Graysin is first in line to participate. Not only will the publicity propel Graysin Motion, Stacy’s dance studio, into the limelight, but the prize money could help offset her looming debt. Plus, Stacy’s teen idol, heartthrob Zane Savage, specifically requested to be her partner.

But the whirlwind reality contest stumbles when the show’s coproducer, Tessa King, is found dead in the Potomac River. All the clues point to Tessa being murdered—and the suspects are the contestants and crew of B-Listers. Now Zane and the rest of the B-Listers must promenade back to fame, and Stacy will need to hustle to maintain her reputation, win the competition, and catch a killer.

• ISBN10: 0451239741
• ISBN13: 9780451239747
• Publish Date: 2 April 2013
• Publish Status: Inactive
• Out of Print: 23 June 2022
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780451239747

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

I'm not really sure exactly how I feel about this book - I really enjoyed it right up until the dreaded words "you have to figure out who did this" (implying that Stacy is better equipped than the police). After that, the book just became 'meh'. I found myself skipping entire pages of internal dialogue/repetition of suspects/inner angst. I really liked that the romance angle has been sorted, and I loved the scene where that happens. It was a good one. The murder plot was excellent - nothing obvious to me about who did it and an ending that felt sincere (if somewhat implausible).

I'm not sure I'll continue with this series, but I think it's just a reflection of my personal tastes and not the quality of the book itself.