Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Book ~ "Who Glares Wins" (2012) Camilla Chafer

From Goodreads ~ Only a few weeks into her new job as a private investigator, Lexi Graves thinks she may have bitten off more than she can chew with her first solo cases.

In between going undercover as a plush pony at a “Bronie” conference and following her cheating brother-in-law, she’s got a saboteur-turned-killer to catch and a missing woman to find. Two of her cases may be connected but how?

There’s no short list of suspects to investigate but the closer Lexi gets to the killer, the more her life is put in jeopardy. Trying to avoid being framed for a murder she didn’t commit, Lexi knows her luck is running out.

To make matters worse, her boyfriend, sexy detective, Adam Maddox, thinks she’s out of the PI game faster than she got into it. Her boss, the mysterious Solomon, meanwhile, hopes to get her between the sheets by night, as well as solving cases by day, and Lexi’s "just say no" resolve might not be as fortified as she believes.

All she wants is to be taken seriously and there’s only one way she can do that - solve the cases, no matter what.


Lexi has just started her new job as a private investigator with Solomon. She’s young, inexperienced and underestimated so feels like she has something to prove with the rest of the team. Solomon assigns her an undercover job at a hotel to figure out who is behind the sabotage incidents, which include thefts, work schedules being manipulated and conference reservations being canceled. In addition, she's taken on a couple pro bono cases. One case involves a woman who’s gone missing under suspicious circumstances, which Solomon had said the firm would pass on. She’s also working a personal job for her sister ... following her brother-in-law to confirm he’s cheating. Meanwhile, Lexi’s personal life is just as complicated. She’s torn between her steady detective boyfriend, Adam, and her boss, Solomon.

This story is written in first person perspective in Lexi's voice. I liked the writing style ... it was amusing at times. It wasn't overly deep and was a fairly quick read. Lexi and Lily, her best friend, are 29 and a bit too "boy crazy". Though she's dating Adam, she still thinks about Solomon (who keeps putting the moves on her). It's the second in the Lexi Graves mystery series (there are currently 17 in the series and I read the first one last month) and I liked it enough to keep going with the series.

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