There’s a sweet first date (to Graceland!) for Stella and Logan (the hot landscape artist), as well as some nice scenes between Logan and Stella’s sons. Blue Dahlia gives the ghost subplot and romance about equal weight. Like most of Roberts’s trilogies, the friendship that grows between Stella, business owner Rosalind Harper, and Rosalind’s pregnant young cousin Hayley is the most enjoyable relationship in the book, and I had no problem swallowing the instant rapport between the female characters. Roberts clearly doesn’t believe in wasting her readers’ time by the end of chapter two, we’ve met a strong candidate for the ghost position, Stella has been widowed, packed up her kids and moved back to her home state of Tennessee, and accepted a job offer as the manager of a plant and garden center. The heroine of Blue Dahlia is 33-year-old Stella Rothchild. As such, it’s a perfect introduction to her work-like most of Roberts’s books, Blue Dahlia is an entertaining, briskly-paced story about an intelligent, organized woman-her work, her children, her relationship with her parents, her friends, the ghost that she lives with (whose intentions may or may not be peaceful) and, yes, the hot landscape artist that she falls in love with. Nora Roberts’s Blue Dahlia reads like a mix’n’match of about fifty of her previous books.
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