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Grace Among Thieves by Kari Bovee – 4 Star Book Review

Posted on March 28, 2022 By Jenna Rideout No Comments on Grace Among Thieves by Kari Bovee – 4 Star Book Review

A priceless heirloom worth its weight in lives. Can she crack the case before she becomes a killer’s trophy?

Welcome to one of the March 28th stops on the blog tour for Grace Among Thieves by Kari Bovee by Kari Bovee with iRead Book Tours (schedule linked.) Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, exclusive content, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.

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About the Book

Grace Among Thieves
Grace Michelle Book three
by Kari Bovee

Published 15 February 2022
Bosque Publishing

Genre: Historical Mystery
Page Count: 306
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A priceless heirloom worth its weight in lives. Can she crack the case before she becomes a killer’s trophy?

Hollywood, 1924. Grace Michelle’s professional star has risen. Now a successful costumier for a major studio, the ambitious woman has just about everything she wants. But when the father she thought was dead reaches out to reconnect, the talented designer doesn’t know what to think… especially after his new wife is kidnapped.

Discovering her dad is mixed up with a stolen Russian artifact, Grace puts her sleuthing skills to work to rescue the abducted lady. But with a famous actress murdered in connection with the missing valuable and a man she put away stalking her for revenge, the frazzled amateur detective fears getting to the bottom of this crime will leave her six feet under.

Can she hunt down the treasure before it bankrupts the lives of everyone she loves?

Grace Among Thieves is the nail-biting third book in the Grace Michelle Mystery historical series. If you like bright-but-beset heroines, breathtaking twists and turns, and the glamor of a lost age, then you’ll adore Kari Bovée’s riveting tale. 

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My Review

My Rating: 4 Stars
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I received a complimentary review copy of Grace Among Thieves by Kari Bovee as part of my participation in a blog tour for this title with iRead Book Tours. Thank you to all involved in affording me this opportunity! My thoughts are my own and my review is honest.

Like any good mystery series of the cozy sort (it’s billed as historical mystery but I would also call it cozy,) this book does stand alone just fine despite being the third title in its series. I read Grace Among Thieves without having first read the previous two Grace Michelle books, and I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything. Bravo! I imagine the same applies to book two and will apply to future books.

It’s 1924, Grace has a soft spot for taking in orphans because she’s also an orphan, but she’s about to be contacted by the father she thought she lost over a decade ago. The bittersweet reunion is short-lived, however, when people start going missing and winding up in hospital and it’s all tied up in something her estranged father in involved in. Can Grace solve the mystery before anyone else dies?

I absolutely loved this cast of characters and the 1920s setting. The big twist didn’t surprise me at all, the plot hangs a huge hat on a clue Grace really shouldn’t overlook and that’s why I’m calling this also a cozy mystery, but that’s didn’t spoil the ride at all. The Russian antagonists feel a bit like classic Bond villains, which very much fits the temporal setting and provided a lot of entertainment.

Where this book lost me a little is just the fact that sometimes I wasn’t completely sure if we were still reading Grace’s POV or not, and the conscious effort to figure it out pulled me out of the story for a bit each time.

If you like period pieces and mysteries with big twists, check out this series!

About the Author

When she’s not on a horse riding along the beautiful cottonwood-laden acequias of Corrales, New Mexico; or basking on white sand beaches under the Big Island Hawaiian sun, Kari Bovée is escaping into the past—scheming murder and mayhem for her characters both real and imagined in her historical mystery novels.

Kari Bovée writes the award-winning Annie Oakley mystery series and the Grace Michelle mystery series. In 2020, she was honored with First Place in category for the Chanticleer International Clue Awards for her book Folly at the Fair. In 2019 she was awarded the NM/AZ Book Awards Hillerman Award for her novel Girl with a Gun. The novel also received First Place in the 2019 NM/AZ Book Awards in the Mystery/Crime category, and won First in Category in the International Chanticleer Murder & Mayhem Awards. It was also a finalist in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Awards. Her novel Grace in the Wings won First in Category for the 2019 International Chanticleer Chatelaine Awards. Peccadillo at the Palace won Grand Prize in the 2019 Goethe Awards, and was a finalist in the 2019 Best Book Awards Historical Fiction category.

Kari Bovée has worked as a technical writer for a Fortune 500 Company, has written non-fiction for magazines and newsletters, and has worked in the education field as a teacher and educational consultant.

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Giveaway Alert!

Enter to win a $35 PayPal gift card, autographed copy of GRACE AMONG THIEVES, and gift basket containing mouse pad, mug, and tote bag courtesy of the author of the Grace Michelle Mysteries! (one winner/USA only) (ends April 4)

GRACE AMONG THIEVES (Grace Michelle Mysteries) Tour Giveaway

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Comments (0) on “Grace Among Thieves by Kari Bovee – 4 Star Book Review”

  1. Eva Millien says:
    March 28, 2022 at 12:57 PM

    Grace Among Thieves sounds like a great mystery for me to enjoy and I like the cover! Thanks for sharing it with me! Thanks, Jenna for sharing your review! Have a magical week!

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  2. Rita Wray says:
    March 28, 2022 at 1:36 PM

    I liked the review.

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  3. Celticlady's Reviews Blog (Kathleen Kelly) says:
    March 28, 2022 at 9:28 PM

    Thanks for sharing this book series! Sure looks good!

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  5. Marisela Zuniga says:
    March 30, 2022 at 6:15 PM

    the series sounds wonderful

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  6. Charlene Bell Dietz says:
    March 30, 2022 at 8:36 PM

    If you enjoy historical mysteries, then you should follow Kari. Kari and I have been captured by the thrill of writing about the Roaring Twenties, and you’ll have fun kicking up your heels while snuggling with a story next to a roaring fire on a cool night. I’ve read some of Kari’s books, and I guarantee, you won’t be disappointed.

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  7. Antoinette M says:
    April 1, 2022 at 10:50 PM

    Sounds like a great mystery. Thanks for the review.

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