"Dressed for Death" by Julianna Deering is the fourth book in the Drew Farthering Mystery series. In this novel Drew and Madeline have been invited to a Regency party at the Cummings'. The Regency party is where the 1930's upper crust crowd spend a week dressing, dancing and playing as if they were in Austen era 1830s. When the party begins to wind down and the final ball is being had, Tal Cummings fiancé overdoses on cocaine. Swearing that she would never take it herself and that she must have been murdered, Tal asks Drew, a known amateur sleuth to take on the case and find the real killer. Soon the murder is tied to a major cocaine smuggling ring and the bodies keep adding up.
Since I don't normally read books of this style it usually takes me a little while to get used to the mannerisms of the characters. But once I do, the story keeps my interest. It has a quick pace and the characters are well developed. The only fault I had was that I solved the mystery before Drew. I received this book for free from the publishers, Bethany House.
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