Interior designer and amateur sleuth Jason Lynx journeys to Santa Fe at the request of an old school friend to investigate the slaying of the friend's half-brother, Ernie Quivada, a fanatical self-styled evangelist with many enemies.
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From Publishers Weekly
Denver antiques dealer Jason Lynx found out more than he cared to know about his parentage in Death for Old Times' Sake , but in other respects he's still the same: a timid soul, enamored of a lady cop with a raging metabolism, who gets drawn into murder with indecent regularity. Readers of Grass , a provoking piece of SF world-building and feminist speculation by Sheri S. Tepper, will likely be disappointed in the predictable mysteries she writes under the pseudonym Orde. Lynx goes to the pueblo lands near Santa Fe, N.Mex., after a friend's less-than-likeable evangelist brother Ernie is found with his throat sliced open. Rounding up suspects isn't strenuous work: Ernie managed to disrupt weddings, shopping-mall traffic and several lives by preaching his personal good word to a hostile world. His death leaves his pretty wife free to pursue dreams of painting, his daughter free to return to her mother, a family of deadbeats free to squat on his land and two good old Oklahoma boys named Boomer and Buster free of one more enemy. Few of the red herrings will mask the predictable identity of the killer. Lynx should have stayed home, romancing his cop, moping around and letting others run his antiques business.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
From Orde (a.k.a. Sheri S. Tepper), a fourth outing for Denver interior-designer Jason Lynx (Death for Old Times' Sake, etc.), who, here, agrees to look into the murder of a friend's half- brother--Ernie Quivada, whom Jason remembers as intrusive, unruly, unpleasant, and given to loudly praying over so-called sinners. The late Ernie, a preacher, had his throat slit in his Santa Fe church- -a murder committed right in front of an altar painting done by his fiercely talented artist wife, Margaret. Jason quickly becomes fascinated with the cool and remote Margaret and learns, among other things, that Ernie thought her artwork wicked and so disapproved of her friendship with art-teacher Joy Shepherd that he moved the family from Oklahoma to New Mexico to break it up. But Margaret's art prevailed, and her mentor, a 91-year-old gallery owner, had just promised her a show before Ernie died. Jason's cop pal Grace visits--and comes back with some insights Jason would rather not recognize: lesbianism, for instance. There will be another death and more religion run amok before Ernie's last Scripture lesson reveals why he had to die--and by whom. A glum, dour read. Unlike the previous Jason Lynx books, preachy--on every level. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good mystery made better by the author's feminism.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Looking for the Aardvark (Hardcover)
Jason Lynx is asked by his old friend Bruce to investigate the murder of his half-brother, the Rev. Ernie Quivada, a fundamentalist minister in Santa Fe, N. M. The dead man left behind an artist wife, an estranged daughter, two frightening, fundamentalist grandparents, a houseful of free loaders, and few kind memories. This book has also been published as "Dead On Sunday." A. J. Orde also writes fantasy under the name Sheri Tepper. She brings a strong feminist sensibility to her writing that has often left me very angry at "Men", and I love it. Her writing always leaves you knowing the characters and understanding their motivations. I'm afraid I can easily consume a Jason Lynx story in one sitting. The problem comes in finding the books, many are out of print.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Different is wrong! Repeat after me.,
By M, Compulsive Reader (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Looking for the Aardvark (Hardcover)
Another of Orde's intriguing puzzles. A Satan-hating, obnoxiously in-your-face minister has done the world a courtesy and died. His having been murdered, however, makes people uneasy -- his saddened mother, his half-brother, and viewpoint-character Jason Lynx. The author's usual fascinating characters, sense of place, observations on those for whom theirs is the only permitted point of view, with all others to be smitten.
To solve the riddle yourself, read the Biblical reference. To be surprised, wait with Jason to untie it. Orde's usual excellence.
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