This first crime novel of Annette Roome has a heroine in whom the conflicting stresses of marriage, motherhood and the investigative instinct are balanced.
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Fed up with household chores and an uncaring husband, English mother Chris Martin, 40, gets a job on the small local paper, trading one form of drudgery for another until she happens on the body of a teacher who appears to have hanged himself, but who really died of a heroin overdose. Chris and wisecracking reporter Pete Schiavo, who soon beds her, uncover blackmail, a crooked real estate deal, bribery, police corruption, a drug connection and the book's sole ingenious idea--an environmentalists' effort to save a wooded area by salting it with an endangered species of tree frog. Although it's possible to empathize with Chris, this Nancy Drew story for grownups is shallow, implausible and full of chatter that neither develops character nor moves the story forward. Nevertheless, the book won the John Creasy memorial award for best first mystery when published in Britain in 1989.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
For a mystery story, it's full of giggles!,
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This review is from: A Real Shot in the Arm (Hardcover)
It's unlike most mystery stories coz it's FUN,
witty and it has a housewife for a `detective'.
Chris Martins is a delight as the housewife cum
detective though. The word `AMATEUR' is written
all over her but that's what makes it full of
giggles. I was in a RUSH to turn the pages to
find out about who kill Stoddart as much as I
want to check out whether Chris and Pete will
stay together! Is it a wonder I'm reading this
one for the 3rd time??
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