Ink Flamingos: A Tattoo Shop Mystery
First Sentence: The picture of the flamingo tattoo was on the blog an hour before they found the body.
Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson is the fourth and last book in the A Tattoo Shop Mystery series. The novel has all the elements I loved: tattoos, a strong and spunky female character, blogging, and a hint of romance between the tattooists in the midst of sleuthing. Brett Kavanaugh—a tattoo artist and owner of The Painted Lady—is that strong and spunky female character.
Author, Karen E. Olson did a fabulous job in this one! I'm sorry I took this long to tell you of the good stuff Brett and the gang is up to, but it's never too late to do so.
In this one, in addition to the mysterious death-by-tattoo-gone-wrong of a female lead singer of a hot pop band, there is also a very important message of what the cyber world can do to a person’s sanity. Brett is suddenly appearing all over the Internet in a blog that is not hers with her pictures and real-time reporting of her comings and goings. Really scary. She is being impersonated and implicated in the crime.
Now, imagine yourself in her position. I would definitely not be thrilled to have my privacy breached that way. And not only that, to be living in fear of being followed and photographed and posted online. I also like the emotional development between Brett and Jeff Coleman who is a competitor in the business. I’m so glad Karen decided to play it up more in the last book without being explicit like how most romance novels tend to do.
To Karen: Thank you for being such a wonderful author and friend. I have enjoyed the series very much and as a fan of tattoos, the four books mean a lot to me. Also, being in the “Acknowledgments” section of the third book really made my day!
Here are the gorgeous covers of all the four books in the A Tattoo Shop Mystery series. Aren’t they beautiful?
