From Publishers Weekly
Cigar-smoking Detroit PI Ben Perkins investigates a death ruled a suicide a quarter-century earlier in this engaging but unlikely crime story. While helping his high school sweetheart Janet Vento and lusted-after homecoming queen Stacie Hallthorn locate missing grads for a 25-year high school reunion, Ben learns Janet has a hidden agenda: she believes that her melancholy friend, Sara Gerbstadt, who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning in her garage after a graduation party, was murdered. Skeptical at first, Ben comes to accept Janet's hunch and interviews members of their senior-year circle: Fast Eddie Anger, once Sara's main squeeze and now a rock star; former nerd Richie Satterfield; troublemaker Don Triplett. He visits Sara's nosy neighbor, who recalls seeing a suspicious car on the night of the "suicide," as well as Sara's senile and shockingly lecherous father. The characters' lucid memories of who hung out with whom at a party, not to mention Janet's lengthy wait before voicing her doubts about Sara's demise, create a certain unbelievability, but the pieces fall rather convincingly into place during an inventive, suspenseful denouement. Kantner wrote Made in Detroit.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
