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Levelheaded septuagenarian Tish McWhinny, seen before in The Cashmere Kid, has her hands full in this delightful caper set in Vermont. First, the home of Sophie, Tish's honorary niece, is blown up, an event that draws the interest of agents from the Treasury Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The dynamite used is traced to a slate quarry owned by Sophie's new admirer. Meanwhile, Tish's old friend Hilary Oats, who is being pressured to sell his land, announces that he is willing it to Sophie. As Tish pokes around, she unearths the rumor that Sophie and her boyfriend detonated the house. Worse, the authorities agree with this account. Incensed, Tish works harder to find the culprit, only to be caught up in new crimes as Hil is the object of an escalating campaign of terror by someone who wants his property. When a body is found in Hil's bedroom, Tish goes on the warpath to protect her friends, determined to discover who's responsible for all the violence and why. Despite a disjointed plot that doesn't quite gel, Comfort's lovable Tish and Hil easily hold the reader's interest.
Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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As Bad As A "Cozy" Mystery Can Get,
By Mark Twain (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Elusive Quarry (Hardcover)
Found this at a library sale for $1. Loss of $1. Cozy mystery reading is for absorbing time that cannot be spent on other activities and not for stimulating brain cells. If they are done well, they serve a purpose. Not in this instance, however. When I woke up at 4AM today, I picked it up to read in order to get me back to sleep. A decent cozy mystery should be able to gently do that. The book is so poorly written that at 5AM I had to get up and put it with my get-rid-of-books. Seventeen degrees outside, not much warmer in my garage where I have two boxes for books I have decided not to keep: donate to library sales or throw out. This clunker went in the latter. Do not be fooled by the blurbs on the book jacket [shame on them]. The author has no skill in creating characters, in developing background, in dialogue, in plotting. She appears to be writing a mystery circa 1914 [the niece is a "hoyden"], the kind found in a cardboard box at a book sale where the entire box is a buck. Never worth the money unless for decorative purposes only in a furniture store. As this is not the author's first book [she would probably refer to first as "maiden voyage"], I trust all others should be avoided. The author's name is "B[e] Comfort[ed]," which should have made me suspicious and warned me not to buy it.
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