Book Review: A Killer Collection

Book: A Killer Collection (Antiques & Collectible Mysteries book #1) by Ellery Adams

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing

Description:

In the world of antiques and collectibles, it helps to have a sharp eye for quality, a good ear for gossip, and a nose for murder.

Molly Appleby is a young writer for Collector’s Weekly, and when the attractive reporter isn’t covering auctions and antique shows all over the South, she’s trying to get her new relationship with a coworker off the ground. When her latest assignment takes her to North Carolina pottery country to cover an exclusive kiln opening, she’s certain the show promises surprising offerings and rare finds. What she doesn’t expect to find is a dead body.

George-Bradley Staunton is known throughout the antiques world as a very wealthy and very ruthless collector, and when he drops dead just after the opening, there are all too few mourners and a seemingly endless list of suspects. When the local police are stumped, Molly steps in to put her journalist’s nose to work sniffing out the culprit. But no sooner does she start collecting clues than another dead body falls into her lap.

As Molly digs beneath the genteel surface of antiques and collectibles, she finds a world filled with backstabbing and competition, and what started as a story about rare collections might leave Molly with nothing more than a collection of corpses.



Rating: 1 star (Did Not Finish)

Review:

The story opened with an extremely boring prologue that really could have been left out. After that, I found as I read more of the story that I just wasn't connecting with it and I was bored. This story was filled with a lot of unnecessary information and since this story is about pottery there was quite a lot of detailed information about it.

A Killer Collection follows 30 years old Molly Appleby a former teacher now full time journalist for Collector's Weekly, she was attending a pottery show to write an article on Southern Pottery. She attended the event with her mother when she met George-Bradley Stauton, a well know collector who was very unlikeable.

When he collapsed at the show, there was hardly any kind words for the man who was in a terrible state. Once the ambulance arrived and took him to the hospital it was already too late for him. That's about as far as I got because I too bored with this story to continue.

I didn't like the characters or the way the story was being told. This just wasn't for me.