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The Grace in Older Women

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This book seems to be even more frenetic than some of the previous. I found it a bit confusing, and some issues never did get resolved. We still get lots of good antique information, and we learned the ins and outs of auctions for fakes, but a lot of plot strands were dropped on the way. It seems like Gash is trying to make Lovejoy even scruffier and even more scattered, and the book loses by this. I still like this series though, and will continue to read until the end. If nothing else there are usually enough surprises at the end to keep me going with the next installment.

In reviewing Every Last Cent, I noted that any author who does sequel after sequel must guard against making his character a cliche. Rex Stout managed to churn out Nero Wolf novels year after year and still kept his major character entertaining. The reason was his plotting. His character never became more important than the plot. In The Grace in Older Women, Gash falls into the same trap he encountered in Every Last Cent, cliches wrapped around a weak plot.

However, I'm a die-hard Gash fan. Anything he writes, I buy. So, it's cliche riddled. I like the cliches!

After reading several of Gash's novels this was one I could definitely put down. It started strong but ran too convoluted until the last few chapters when everything came to a quick solution. Not one of his better works.