Tightrope by Amanda Quick - 309 pages
A man has just been killed by a robot in front of an entire audience during a demonstration. Amalie is horrified at what she sees. However, she's is even more horrified when the newcomer to town shows up at her bed and breakfast investigating the murder. Matthias has ties to local mobster Luther Pell. Now, to save her business before it fails from all the negative publicity, Amalie must work with Matthias to discover just what happened.
This is the third book in Amanda Quick's Burning Cove mystery series set in 1930s California. It is also the first one to reintroduce her popular Jones family from her previous Arcane Society series. I enjoyed the book. I thought the mystery was well done. The book did a good job of hiding the identity of the villain until the end. I did find it strange that after all the Arcane Society books which wholly embraced the idea of psychics that this book did its best to downplay the idea -- never coming out one way or the other on whether it was true they existed or not.
