Dead Crazy (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 5) [Import] [Hardcover]

Nancy Pickard (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Collins Crime Club (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002322455
• ISBN-13: 978-0002322454
• Shipping Weight: 0.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,190,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but a little chaotic, August 12, 2000

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frumiousb "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Crazy (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

While the writing style was good and the plot was interesting, it was easy to imagine that this book had been written just a little too quickly. I was suprised by some of the plot holes and obviousnesses given the general high quality of the writing.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A decent little mystery, August 21, 2004

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DWD "DWD's Reviews" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Crazy (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

This novel is set in small-town New England and features Jenny Cain, the woman in charge of the areas philanthropical foundation (very much like Indianapolis' Lilly Foundation) that makes investments and gives grants for the public good. The foundation is asked to buy a building so that it can be converted into a recreation/meeting hall for the mentally ill of the community - a place where they can get out of the cold and still be welcome. But, things quickly get complicated when people start dying in and around the building and a mentally ill man is the main suspect.

The characters are believable, the book is well-paced and the killer is a surprise (I thought I had it figured out for about half the book, but ... I was wrong).

4.0 out of 5 stars a social services-oriented mystery, May 3, 2008

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This review is from: Dead Crazy (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 5) (Mass Market Paperback)

What I like about Nancy Pickard is that she writes more than a mystery. She does a nice job here with the social services world. It is the balance between that world and the "crime fiction" that I was expecting that drew me in. She does a great job with settings -- most commonly in the few Jenny Cain books I've read, with the cold, dreary New England winters. She handles issues of mental illness in an adept and realistic fashion, without getting too heavy or losing the pacing that a mystery should hvae.