The Missing Ink: A Tattoo Shop Mystery
First sentence: I've made grown men cry.
Synopsis from the back-cover: Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of The Painted Lady, catering to high-profile clients in Las Vegas. But in her free time, she does a little investigating too—because murder really gets under her skin…
When a girl makes an appointment to get devotion ink with the name of her fiancé embedded in a heart, Brett takes the job, but the girl never shows. The next thing Brett knows, the police are looking for her mysterious client and the name she wanted on the tattoo isn’t the name of her fiancé.
An alliance with an unlikely partner leads Brett to a dead body, a suave Englishman, and an Elvis karaoke bar. And who is the tattooed stranger stalking her? Brett draws lines between the clues, unwittingly putting herself in danger. But she intends to see justice done, since death, like a tattoo, is permanent…
The Missing Ink by Karen E. Olson is the first book in the A Tattoo Shop Mystery series. The protagonist, Brett Kavanaugh, is a female tattooist who owns her own tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. I like her right from the start. She is a fun person surrounded by good friends who are also her shop employees. She is different from Annie Seymour in the Annie Seymour Mysteries series, and so intrigued am I by her that I took the opportunity to know more about Brett in my interview with Karen.
The Missing Ink is a great start to this new series! It has all the ingredients of a good story: a great cast of characters, lots of humor, a plot full of twists, and an engrossing mystery. It’s a page-turner and kept me interested throughout in finding out what will happen next.
I also like a particular part in the story when she has to ink four women on their shoulders. These women met one another at a book club and they want to be inked with the same image of a book to commemorate their friendship. This made me think what I’d like Brett to tattoo on my body too.
Thank you, Karen, for the engaging interview and for sending me the ARC (advance review copy) of this book.
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