Bailey Weggins is back to solve yet another murder mystery! This time around also, she doesn’t go looking for trouble, but as usual, trouble happens wherever Bailey is.  

At the end of the first Bailey Weggins mystery, we left the true crime storywriter terribly shaken as she narrowly escapes becoming a murder victim herself. Tired and badly in need of some rest and relaxation, Bailey jumps at the offer when an old family friend Danielle invites her down for the weekend at her inn/spa. The gracious old inn seems like a virtual Shangri-la, and the special late night massage in the Asian-inspired spa is a welcome therapeutic relief after the long drive-up. Until Bailey goes in search of the watch she left behind and literally stumbles across a body wrapped up like an Egyptian mummy! And all this before she’s even been there at the inn for six hours! 

Getting help from her numerous sources as well by using her reporter instincts to the utmost use by putting together clues and spotting patterns which everyone else overlooks, Bailey is hot on the chase. None of the employees are pleased at her probing questions and she soon begins to get the feeling that they’re all hiding something. What could it be? Meanwhile, guests are checking out in droves, Danielle’s in trouble, Bailey gets the feeling that someone’s watching her and there are more than enough suspects and even greater motives. 

Bailey’s love life is equally complicated. She’s still smarting from the breakup with the sexy psychology professor she fell for in the first book. At the same time, the hot detective assigned to the case sets her pulse soaring. Is she on the rebound or is this serious? 

Meanwhile Bailey’s rambling detecting is playing off and someone’s getting pretty antsy. Can Bailey solve the case before she ends up as a dead mummy?!

Author Kate White wowed the readers when she first introduced the character of Bailey Weggins in sophisticated murder mystery, “If Looks Could Kill”. This time around, Bailey leaves behind the skyscraper city of New York for the foliage of rural Massachusetts and in the process again falls headlong into a case. In this book, Bailey explores the world of exotic spa treatments as well as darker side of massage. Murder most intriguing forms the focal point of the entire story and the bumbling way Bailey goes about solving it is very authentic for an amateur detective story. There are many suspects, myriad motives and countless skeletons in closets and so, to guess as to the true identity of the perpetrator, is next to impossible. Even the ending comes as a complete and shocking revelation! While not exactly in the Holmes or Plum league, Bailey Weggins is surely and slowly following in their footsteps and greater things can be expected of her. Kate White has done a thorough job of filling this latest book of hers full of contrasts that makes it difficult to categorize it. But one thing is clear - the book and Bailey are thoroughly entertaining! 

Reviewed By Rashmi Srinivas for The Road to Romance

October 8, 2003