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High Strung, A Glass Bead Mystery by Janice Peacock published by Booktrope Editions is an entertaining mystery. Jacqueline O'Connell, aka Jax, received a house and savings account from her Great-Aunt Rita Haglund. The only condition was that she live in the house in Seattle, Washington and be creative. The house was divided so one side was a rental unit. I gave it four stars.

She had a fluffy gray cat named Gumdrop who she thought had psychic powers. When her boyfriend Jerry came home and started bossing her around, she called the attorney and told him that she would move.

Val had moved in opposite where Jax lived in her Great-Aunt's house. She had her bead studio in the back of the house. She hadn't thought it was what she would be doing but she was happy.

"Val was forever after me to look nice and act pretty. Or was it look pretty and act nice? I could never remember. I wasn't particularly good at either--at least not at the same time."

Jax went to Tessa's Aztec Bead shop and came across Dylan McCartney there. "Dylan never seemed to be in a hurry and was always scruffy around the edges. That comes with being a 22-year-old guy. If he’d been in Southern California, I’d have called him a surfer dude. Here in the Pacific Northwest, his T-shirt, flip-flops, and threadbare jeans looked out of place. He never looked like he was cold, but I couldn’t wear so little without freezing to death when temperatures dipped to the 40s outside."

I received a complimentary copy from itunes. This did not change my opinion for this review.

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/High-Strung-Glass-Bead-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01GIBQTFY