From Library Journal
Narrator Meg Darcy works for her uncle's security firm in St. Louis, where a serial killer has murdered several homeless women. The killer also apparently murders a friend's aunt, who has wandered away from a nursing home, and Darcy mounts her own investigation. When a nursing home employee is killed, Darcy, suspicious by nature, looks for a second murderer, antagonizes the butch policewoman she lusts after, and finally identifies her quarry. Once past a rather pedestrian beginning, this first novel gathers speed. For large collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Three homeless women have been plucked from the streets of St. Louis, strangled, and propped up against tombstones in local cemeteries without Det. Sarah Linquist's Task Force getting to first base. But when Mary Margaret Brooks, Ann Yates's wealthy, Alzheimer's-stricken Aunt M, wanders away from her nursing home to become the fourth victim, Ann hires Meg Darcy to ride Linquist till she produces results. She doesn't know that Meg would love to ride Linquist all night long, or at least get further than first base. The detection in Marcy's first novel--with sidelights on the nursing home staff, Aunt M's heirs, and an inexcusably tangential missing poodle--would have been more distinctive if Meg weren't so obsessed with getting into Linquist's pants. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
