Expired
Listings is a tongue-in-cheek exaggerated look at the cut-throat world of
realtors as they jostle and connive to win sellers’ listings. Set in the
fictional community of Rock Canyon, Dana Black is a realtor with a few kinky
secrets of her own. She likes to use empty houses that are currently for sale
as places for her and her BDSM partner, Dare, to play out “scenes” that usually
entail some twisted game where Dare inevitably ends up “punishing” Dana. It’s
all fun and games until realtors start going missing and turn up dead. There
are numerous possibilities as to who the killer could be or even what the
motive may be. The author nicely weaves the characters together into one
cohesive story that is fun and entertaining. Dana has trust issues due to a
horrible childhood and it doesn’t help that she has the occasional black out.
Dana may be the killer and the reader doesn’t really know for sure until the
end of the book. She enlists the help of an attractive investigator who she has
been interested in for a while but has never approached. Where does that leave
her BDSM partner, Dare? That turns out to be quite a twist all in itself and
just one of many that the author provides throughout the book.
The
cover of this book, although eye catching, infers that it will be sexually
explicit and it does have some erotica in it but nothing too graphic. It is
heavy on the BDSM aspect but for me it was just full of information. The author
definitely knows her subject matter on this, right down to the language and
terminology. I have always wondered how this sort of thing works as I can’t
understand why anyone would be interested in it but this book explains a lot of
the psychology about it. The author does provide a warning at the beginning of
the book regarding the sexual content as well as some points about how realtors
work. The best part about this book is the author’s style of writing. It’s fun
and easy. If it weren’t for the BDSM, it may even fall into the cozy mystery
category. There’s no blood and gore, just a fun and fast-paced mystery. The
characters are great and easy to keep track of even though there are quite a
few of them. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and fully intend to look for more
to read by D.M. Barr.
I read
this on my ereader and it formatted very well.
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