Tender Death [Mass Market Paperback]

Annette Meyers (Author)

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One-time dancer Leslie Wetzon, now self-employed in a headhunting firm for brokerage houses, enlists the aid of an ambitious journalist friend to determine whether someone killed an acquaintance of hers (a little old rich lady with Alzheimer's) who apparently jumped to her death from a 20th-floor apartment. The author easily sketches in some unique New Yorkers, such as Wetzon's sharp friend Hazel and gay buddy Carlos, but she throws in too many extras, and her characters are inconsistent. Poetically effective but realistic descriptions of the wintry city periodically relieve descriptions of shopping and office routine but contribute to an idling and ultimately unfinished plot. For larger collections.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Crimeline (February 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553287192
• ISBN-13: 978-0553287196
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,482,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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ANNETTE MEYERS


Annette Meyers was born in Manhattan, grew up on a chicken farm in Toms River, NJ, graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and came running back to NYC as fast as she could. She is the author of 8 Smith and Wetzon Wall Street and Broadway mysteries, using her experience as a Wall Street headhunter and arbitrator, as well as her Broadway experience as Harold Prince's assistant. The most recent novel is Hedging. Her other works: 2 Olivia Brown 1920s Greenwich Village mysteries, Free Love and Murder Me Now; and a stand-alone psychological suspense novel: Repentances. Her noir short stories have appeared in many anthologies. One of these stories- "You Don't Know Me" - was included in James Ellroy's edited Best American Mystery Stories, 2002.
As Maan Meyers, she and her husband Martin write The Dutchman series. There are now 7 history mysteries in the series, and numerous short stories that feature characters from the novels. The setting is New York in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The 7th novel - The Organ Grinder - set in 1899, was published in October, 2008. THE DUTCHMAN, the first book in the series, is now available on Kindle
Annette was the 10th president of Sister in Crime. Website:www.meyersmysteries.com

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3.0 out of 5 stars Headhunting in New York, July 30, 2000

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This review is from: Tender Death (Hardcover)

TENDER DEATH is the second book in the Smith and Wetzon series. Xenia Smith and Leslie Wetzon are partners in a Wall Street headhunting firm. Wetzon, an ex-Broadway dancer, has befriended an elderly woman, who asks her to visit an old school chum. They do, and shortly thereafter, the chum apparently leaps out of her posh apartment in New York. Wetzon does not accept the police's finding of suicide, and tries to investigate on her own.

There are many twists and turns before the denouement, including a wonderful trip to a Russian restaurant in Brooklyn, complete with its own cast of characters, a party at Smith's condo, and stops at a few restaurants along the way. The dream sequences are a bit offputting though, and slow the action considerably.

Annette Meyers was a Wall Street headhunter and an assistant to a producer of Broadway musicals, so she really knows a part of New York that very few of us ever get to see. Her descriptions of New York are wonderful. You know exactly where you are at all times, and when Wetzon visits friends or goes to a restaurant, one can picture the neighborhood precisely.

Wetzon's partner, Smith, is a very abrasive person. In the first book in the series, THE BIG KILLING, I thought she was a bit annoying, perhaps a caricature of what the midwesterners think of a New Yorker, but in TENDER DEATH, she is really, truly, big time self-centered, nasty annoying. I wonder why Wetzon puts up with this, so-called friend.