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Bitter Pill (A Rennie Harlow Mystery)

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Bitter Pill (A Rennie Harlow Mystery)

Irene Harlow Moved Back To A Small Town In Southern Illinois To Take Care Of Her Hypercondriac Mom. Okay, So She Tucked Her Tail And Ran From Chicago When Her Husband Left Her For Another Woman, But She Had The Ultimate Revenge--His Precious Car And Alimony! Morrisville Was A Town So Small That Everyone knew Each Others Business And Since She Returned She Was The Queen At Finding Dead Bodies! She Had Worked Out With The Pharmacist To Give Her Hypercondriac Mom Sugar Pills But She Never Expected To Find Him Beaten To Death With One Of His Canes With The Now Married Sheriff She Had A Crush On Suspecting Her!

Stacey Klemstein Pens A Good Story Where Irene Harlow, A Part-time Reporter For The Gazette Suddenly Has The Pleasure Of Finding Dead Bodies And Is Chuckled At By The Police; She Has A Crush On Jake But Having An Affair Was Not Her Style And She Didn't Want To Endure The Stares Of The Small Townspeople Much Less Her Mother. Bitter Pill Is Aptly Named As The Murders Center On A Pharmacist Who Was Badly Beaten To Death And His Leaving millions To His One Time Enemy.

The opening of the book gives us a little info about Rennie. Her part-time job as a journalist and a detective. She is constantly being somewhere at the wrong time. So having to stop by the police station to give a statement. The knowledge acquired can't be published until the criminal case is solved. Doc Hallacy's death had an impact on the residents of Morrisville, a small town. The investigation has alot of unexpected consequences. As usual Rennie's life is in jeopardy.

Stacey's first book was science fiction. Her 2nd book, Bitter Pill, is a mystery whose heroine is Rennie Harlow. As a mystery buff I have read hundreds of mysteries and so feel qualified to say that Stacey's first mystery is excellent. I don't want to give away the plot, but the book is a real page turner and Stacey keeps the tension going at a nice pace. By the end of the book I was so engaged with Rennie that I can't wait for the next book to see how things turn out in her personal life. Keep them coming Stacey.

If you like mysteries you will have a hard time putting this one down. As you follow Rennie Harlow through Morrisville as she hunts down Doc Hallacy's killer. And you won't guess the end, until the end. Stacey Klemstein know how to write. Ned Lord (An Opportunity for Revenge, and other Andy Bowers Mysteries.)