Review: Three Drops of Blood

Three Drops of Blood by Gretchen McNeil
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Kate has finished her first season as an actress on a TV show and is looking forward to filming the next season.  Drama on the set causes the show to get canceled, but she doesn’t want that to slow her down.  She still plans to pursue acting full-time, even though that will require her to skip her senior year of high school.  Her parents don’t want her to stop her education and require her to pay rent if she isn’t in school.  Since she hasn’t been able to get an acting gig, she takes a boring office job to pay the bills.  The only bright spot is the window that lets her see a romance between a woman and her assistant … that is until the romance turns into a double murder.  What will she do, since no one believes her?

Three Drops of Blood is a stand-alone mystery that was lauded as a blend of A Good Girls Guide to Murder and Hitchcock, but I don’t agree.  The murder didn’t take place until I was 59% through the Kindle version, so over half of the book was character development.  Please, no one needs that much for a stand-alone story.  The last 40% (which is the actual mystery) would make a wonderful novella, but as a novel … it was a disappointment.

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