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4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun-Filled 50s Mystery Adventure, September 9, 2008
This review is from: Dial Me for Murder (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries) (Paperback)
Amanda Matetsky brings us the 5th Paige Turner mystery--I love the play on movie titles she uses for each novel. This particular story finally shows our heroine, Paige, developing her backbone when dealing with her chauvinistic co-workers at Daring Detective magazine, while in the midst of solving a very dicey murder that may or may not involve the owner of the magazine she works on. I would love to see her come into her own by the sixth novel, and hopefully that is where Matetsky is headed. You won't be disappointed by the latest in this series!!!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Matatsky's best yet!, October 4, 2008
This review is from: Dial Me for Murder (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries) (Paperback)
Well, I have become addicted to the Paige Turner mysteries. Paige is such a character, and I love going back in time to the 50's and being reminded, if nothing else, of just how far women have come in the business world... though we obviously still have a ways to go.
I think this book is one of the best of the five... still funny, engaging, sexy, and a nail-biter, though more so. The thing I like about Matetsky's books is that you really can't figure out who the culprit is until the very end, unlike so many other mysteries I have read. You stay engaged because of this all the way through the read. And as a result, you're sad when it's over.
I highly recommend this book if you love to be entertained!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
This is one of those series that is predictably enjoyable, September 19, 2008
This review is from: Dial Me for Murder (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries) (Paperback)
I've read each of these Paige Turner mysteries as they appear, and my eyes light up when I see another one has been published. This one is an enjoyable contribution to the series, but not so great that I'd award it five stars.
The series, set in Manhattan in the fifties, features Paige Turner as the detective. Paige wants to be a true crime writer, and sometimes is (with great success), but this is the fifties, and she is more often the underpaid, mistreated office drudge. Her boyfriend is a homicide cop, who wishes his girlfriend would not get involved in such dangerous activities. There's kind of a Lucy-Ricky thing going on, where Paige is constantly trying to conceal what she's doing from her boyfriend. Much is made in this series about what life was like in the early fifties, particularly for women, and particularly in Greenwich Village, where Paige lives in the same building as her beatnik best friend.
The plot involves a young woman -- a secretary -- who is found murdered in Central Park, with mink coat and jewels nearby. Very strange, thinks Paige, so she wants to investigate the crime, with an eye to writing a great true-crime story and also catching the murderer. She takes on an assignment to do this by a society madam, since as it turns out, this young secretary has a part-time job that explains the mink and jewels. Meanwhile, Paige's boyfriend is involved in an official investigation having to do with the Mob.
The plot is pretty well done, the characterization good if kind of two-dimensional (this is a mystery, right?), and all-in-all, it's great airplane, beach, or rainy night reading. Most of all, it's fun.
If you haven't read any in the series, you might want to start with the first, but you really don't have to.
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