Overburdened Fort Worth police detective Deb Ralston finds her work load dramatically increased by a brutal ax murderer with a penchant for hacking computers and their users to death. Reprint. AB. PW.
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Nobody who knew kindly, semiretired Eric Huffman could believe someone hated him enough to hack him to death, along with his computer, but that's what his wife, Clara, returning from a trip to the beauty parlor, found in their comfortable suburban home. A tough case for Fort Worth Police Detective Deb Ralston (Hal's Own Murder Case, etc.), who's embroiled, as usual, in domestic turmoil. It gets even tougher when restaurant owner Helen Thorne is killed in the same grisly way. Now it's up to Deb to find the crucial connections. This in the midst of husband Harry's MBA study program; the uneasy presence in the house of drifter Shane Corbett; the demands of baby Cameron; the overchronicled eccentricities of various household pets; and the grief of son Hal, whose girlfriend Lori, daughter of a fellow policewoman, has been left comatose after a hit-and-run car accident. It takes a while, but all the bits and pieces finally mesh in a windup that shocks but rings true. A cunningly plotted, cozily written, offbeat spin on the standard procedural--and a welcome addition to an engaging series. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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To do: A) Laundry B) Hunt ax-murderer C)Get car washed,
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The tremendous appeal of the Deb Ralston series owes much to the fact that Ralston isn't an angst-ridden tough cookie with commitment issues- although I quite like tough cookies, it's possible to overdose on them, so Ralston makes a nice contrast. This is not to say that the novel is sentimental or its heroine weak - it's a decent police-procedural with well-realised characters and a nice line in ironic asides. If you ever read a detective novel with a female investigator and thought "Yeah, try doing that with a couple of kids, a dog and six loads of laundry ," you might appreciate the Deb Ralston series, of which this is an excellent example.
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