Lead-Pipe Cinch (A GEORGIANA NEVERALL MYSTERY) [Mass Market Paperback]

Christy Evans (Author)

Book Description

Series: A GEORGIANA NEVERALL MYSTERY | Publication Date: April 6, 2010

The second mystery featuring Georgiana Neverall, plumber's apprentice extraordinaire.

Georgiana Neverall never pictured herself knee-deep in a muddy trench building a moat-part of a state-of-the-art castle that would soon house a retired Microsoft engineer.

She also never imagined being a murder suspect, but that's exactly what happens when a floater in the moat turns out to be her ex-boyfriend.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (April 6, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 042523388X
• ISBN-13: 978-0425233887
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #783,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christy Evans is the mystery pen name of multi-published author Christina F. York.

Chris/Christy looks at writing like an all-you-can-eat buffet: she has to try a little bit of everything. She has written business and technical non-fiction, erotica, action-adventure, SF, fantasy, romance, YA, and various combinations of all of the above.
She has always loved words, in every form. Her first foray into publishing, as the ten-year-old reporter, editor and publisher of a one-page neighborhood newspaper, lasted only a few weeks. During the enforced retirement that followed, she finished grade school, high school, and college, married, had a couple kids, divorced, re-married, and eventually found her way back to writing.
An Oregon native, Christina has always lived on the West Coast. After growing up in the suburbs of L.A., she spent many years in and around Seattle, moved to Eugene, Oregon, and eventually settled on the rugged Oregon coast, where she can see the ocean from her office window. She shares her home with her husband, writer J. Steven York, and a couple of very spoiled cats.
She is currently at work on a mystery for Berkley Prime Crime (MURDER BUYS A T-SHIRT) under the name Christy Fifield, and another for Tsunami Ridge Publishing (STRUNG UP). She can be found on Facebook (Christina York), Twitter (@christymystery and @christinafyork), Webpage www.YorkWriters.com, and on her mystery blog (http://christy-evans-mystery.blogspot.com/).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More than meets the eye..., April 25, 2010

By 

Joan M. Brausch "Joan" (Mid-Michigan) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Lead-Pipe Cinch (A GEORGIANA NEVERALL MYSTERY) (Mass Market Paperback)

I was pleasantly surprised by Christy Evans' first book "Sink Trap". I don't like "chick lit" - it often reads too much like a half-hour sit-com. "Sink Trap" was not chick-lit and neither is "Lead Pipe Cinch". The main character, Georgiana Neverall is a woman hiding from the tremendous pain of her first huge career and relationship failure - still afraid to trust - anyone, even her best friend from school, Sue. This second book in the series gives us more insight into that first carerr failure and why she walked away from the work she loved, while Georgie tries to find out who killed her former first love. Good writing, wonderful sense of "place", believable characters. I like this series a lot.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Murder a la moat!, May 16, 2010

By 

Sassy girl "Sassy" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lead-Pipe Cinch (A GEORGIANA NEVERALL MYSTERY) (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed this mystery.
Mysteries these days, seem to have a theme to them.
Cooking, television, knitting, bed and breakfasts, etc.
I guess we can now add Plumbing to our list.
Unique, to say the least.
Georgiana, an apprentice plumber, is the main character.
Losing her security business didn't do much for her ego.
So, she moves back home.
What does this genius security whiz do?
She becomes a plumber's assistant.
Not a fluff job at all.
This book , "Lead Pipe Cinch", second in this series,
deals with an old flame,
a castle with a moat, and murder..... maybe.
Being knee high in mud and having your old boyfriend
seeing you not quite looking your best, is not the way to start out your morning.
But, wait,the story gets even better, when Georgianna happens to find Blake,
bottoms up in the moat the next day. Not good news for Georgiana.
Having the sheriff telling her to leave the snooping to the police,
just makes her even more determined to find out the truth.
I can't forget the banter she has with her mother.
Mother and daughter bring a little levity to this mystery.
Of course, I knew who "did it" in the first chapter.
My skills could match Poirot's little gray cells, any day!
Hah! Surprise, I was wrong, really wrong.
Maybe next time, maybe next time.
Christy Evans, is now an auto for me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'd borrow a crescent wrench from Georgiana any time!, March 2, 2011

By 

Cathy G. Cole (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Lead-Pipe Cinch (A GEORGIANA NEVERALL MYSTERY) (Mass Market Paperback)

First Line: "Let's get a move on, Neverall," Sean Jacobs, the crew foreman, said as he gestured toward the muddy bottom of the trench.

As this second book of the series opens, apprentice plumber Georgiana Neverall finds herself building a moat-- part of a state-of-the-art castle for a retired Microsoft engineer. Almost before she can blink an eye, her ex-boyfriend has shown up to take care of the security system for the property. Since this is the same ex-boyfriend who sold her company out from under her, his body being discovered at the bottom of the moat doesn't bode well for Georgiana. When the law seems to be eyeballing her a lot-- and moving very slowly at the same time-- what's an apprentice plumber to do but set out to prove her own innocence?

Just as important as the whodunit in this book are the evolving relationships between Georgiana and her family and friends. Her mother's boyfriend is acting strangely, and Georgiana has to decide if she should tell her mother what she knows.

In addition, this murder has opened a whole can of worms. When Georgiana was sold down the river, she left San Francisco vowing never to look back and to make a completely new and different life for herself. She is making a lot of progress on that new life, but at the cost of a lot of secrecy. Another decision facing her: does she want to continue to keep her friends in the dark to salve her pride, or does she want to place her trust in them?

As ever, the mystery and the plumbing tips are first-rate, but what really makes this series shine is its main character and the small select group of people she is gathering around her.

The third in the series, Drip Dead, has just been published, and I look forward to reading it. Do these books stand alone well? Yes, they do, but (as always) in the case of a series that depends so much upon characterization, I recommend that you read the series in order.