Customer Reviews

Dr. Nightingale Races the Outlaw Colt: A Deirdre Quinn Nightingale Mystery

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I agree with the other reviewers and endorse their specific gripes. In a book which is 211 pages long, the villians actually do not exist as characters in the book until pages 192 and 205. No hints, no clues, no foreshadowing: they simply appear, and it's certainly not magic.

Neither Nightingale's behavior as a vet, nor the behavior of the police (particularly her mandatory cop boyfriend) is professionally credible. Furthermore, her behavior as a girlfriend is obnoxious, and as a regular friend, truly foul: she excoriates a grieving woman who has just had a lover murdered because, how dare she! the woman had not previously told Nightingale about the details of her sex life.

Finally, we are expected to believe that after retrieving papers from the mouth of a corpse, Nightingale planned to toss them out the window of her car unread. ENOUGH already! If you want a decent sleuth who happens to be female and a veterinarian, try the three-book "Andi Pauling" series written by Lillian Roberts in the late 1990's.