Coached in the Act

by Victoria Laurie

Overview

New York Times bestselling author Victoria Laurie delights with the third installment in her Life Coach Mystery Series featuring former marketing-executive-turned Hamptons life coach divorcée Cat Cooper and her BFF, Gilley, as they delve into the exclusive personal lives of the rich and infamous.

Wild rumors are swirling in the Hamptons over “Twelve Angry Men,” a ruthlessly revealing one-woman show written and performed by Yelena Galanis. The well-known socialite dated her way through some of the East End’s most eligible bachelors, and now she’s sparing few details spilling their humiliating secrets. It’s a mean-spirited spectacle that urges Cat to make a beeline for the theater exit during the first act—only to later discover that Yelena was found stabbed to death during intermission. Believing eleven other barely anonymous men had reasons to kill the thespian for playing a cruel game of kiss and tell, Cat teams up with her sidekick, Gilley, to track down Yelena’s list of rejected lovers and identify the vengeful culprit stalking around the seaside community, lingering frighteningly close to home…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496734419
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	05/24/2022
Series:	A Cat & Gilley Life Coach Mystery , #3
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	194,655
Product dimensions:	4.77(w) x 6.97(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Victoria Laurie is a real-life psychic and the New York Times bestselling author of the Psychic Eye Mysteries, the Ghost Hunter Mysteries, the Life Coach Mysteries, and the Trinket Mysteries. She lives outside Minneapolis, MN and can be found online at VictoriaLaurie.com.

Editorial Reviews

2021-06-02
An actress who scorned men onstage has 12 angry suspects when she’s killed during intermission.

Getting last-minute seats for the Hamptons’ hottest ticket, the one-woman production of Twelve Angry Men, is no big deal for Cat Cooper, whose nearest and dearest, Gilley, needs a little pick-me-up. Cat’s got connections, after all, and her boyfriend Shep's sister, Sunny, is more than willing to grease the wheels. Sunny is a longtime friend of the play’s author and star, Yelena Galanis, and since Sunny’s stuck at home with baby Finley while her husband is in LA yet again, it’s a favor to her that Cat and Gilley can be at the show and support Yelena’s creative work. By the intermission, though, Cat’s not sure that she wants to support Yelena. Scorned-women stories may be hot, but hearing Yelena poke fun at 12 of her exes seems mean-spirited. On her way out, Cat runs into a man who’s very nervous, perhaps because he’s covered in blood. That’s weird enough, but it’s even worse when she finds out that the second act has been canceled because Yelena’s just been killed. It’s obviously not a coincidence, but one could argue that there are 12 very obvious people who want Yelena dead. Some questionable overlap between Yelena’s death and Cat’s flagging life-coaching business puts her at odds with Shep in his role as the local detective. But the emergence of a new suspect close to Cat and Shep offers hope that their shared interests will finally get them to work together.

Heroine and author both shine in a tale that offers a good time to everyone but the victim.

Kirkus Reviews