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Death in the Downline

By: Maria Abrams
Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
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It’s multi-level MURDER in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM “huns”—and the dangerous secrets at the top of the pyramid.

Drew thought she was destined to rise above her small New Jersey hometown and make it as a serious journalist in New York City. But now she’s back in Clearfield, pushing thirty, newly single, and living with her father.

After a chance encounter at the grocery store, she reconnects with her ex-best friend, Steph, who married young and never left their hometown. But Steph looks … good. She’s tanned, clear-skinned, and glowing. She drives an expensive car and wears only name-brands. What’s her secret? A multi-level marketing scheme called LuminUS that’s taken the ladies of Clearfield by storm. With nothing left to lose, Drew gets sucked into this glamorous world of downlines, sales parties, and girls’ trips.

But when a LuminUS distributor dies under mysterious circumstances, can Drew uncover the dark secret at the heart of the organization—and save her best friend—before it’s too late?

Laugh-out-loud funny and a pitch-perfect skewering of pyramid schemes, Death in the Downline is a book that will have listeners nodding in recognition and cheering for Drew until the cathartic conclusion.

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Dark Humor Literature & Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction
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I'm not really into makeup and hair and beauty products, or into selling schemes, but this could have been much more interesting had it not been for the endless repetition that seemed designed to fill enough pages to meet the contract demands of a publisher. About a third of the way into the book, I found myself looking forward to finishing it and moving on to something I could actually sink my teeth into and enjoy.

Interesting Premise, But...

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The set up of high pressure sales and sleazy sales women was pretty well done, but I felt really let down by the end when they revealed all the ridiculously toxic ingredients in their balms and salves. Products that made so many people ill would not have sold enough for this company to get started.

Ridiculous ingredients in the secret formula

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This book is a mess. It’s not the fun cozy murder mystery you are expecting from the description and the cover art. It reads like three (bad) authors wrote it, each misunderstanding what the genre was supposed to be.
I wish I didn’t have to rate the narrators because the source material was so bad, but I feel like they leaned into the terrible writing too much.
It's terrible, it's awful, it's cheesy, and it's poorly written.

Do not waste your time or your credit on this crap

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