The Trouble With Thin Ice (Simona Griffo Mysteries) [Paperback]

Camilla T. Crespi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1994 | Series: Simona Griffo Mysteries

New York ad exec and great cook Simona Griffo cannot resist interfering in life's mysteries. When a friend is arrested for murder, Simona and her boyfriend's teenage son try to put the pieces together and end up in slippery territory. An appealing story for fans of light, humorous mysteries.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Brisk and continuously engaging, this mystery is the hardcover debut of amateur sleuth Simona Griffo, seen before in The Trouble with a Small Raise , etc . An Italian transplant living in Greenwich Village, the 37-year-old Simona and her lover, Greenhouse, travel to the picturesque but financially shaky Sleepy Hollow Inn in upscale Fieldston, Conn., to attend the New Year's Eve wedding of their friends Kesho and Richard. Also along is Willy, Greenhouse's precocious, hostile 14-year-old son. Simona discovers the body of elderly Elisabeth Dobson in the icy waters of the inn's pond, with one of Kesho's earrings nearby. Kesho is arrested for the murder. Shrewd Simona plunges into the action, uncovering plenty of hostility among the aristocratic, often unsavory Dobsons. Was Elisabeth killed because she had planned to sell her Frank Lloyd Wright estate to Kesho, an African American whose parents were the Dobson's servants? Whatever happened to Elisabeth's husband Walter, who vanished without a trace eight years earlier? When Greenhouse, an NYPD homicide investigator, is called away, Simona and Willy form an uneasy alliance to produce a number of surprises. Rich in atmosphere and buoyed by wry wit, Crespi's briskly paced narrative calls for an encore.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

The Sleepy Hollow Inn of Fieldston, Connecticut, is hardly sleepy in this fourth Simona Griffo mystery (the first three were paperback originals from Zebra). Adperson Griffo treks to the inn at Christmas with her love, divorced NYPD homicide detective Stan Greenhouse, and his 14-year-old son, Willy, for the wedding of the Greenhouses' friend, successful children's book author Kesho Larson, to restaurateur Richard Mentani. Tensions rise at Christmas Eve dinner, when local widow Elizabeth Dobson announces that she's selling RockPerch, her Frank Lloyd Wright house, to an interracial couple. Next morning, Griffo stumbles upon Dobson's corpse. The victim's self-important brother-in-law and his prim wife and intense son are obvious suspects, as are the almost-newlyweds (both have surprising past ties to RockPerch), the inn's owner, and others from among the local citizenry and constabulary. When his mother's illness drags Greenhouse off to Florida, Simona and Willy must face their suspicions about each other and various suspects while dodging a desperate killer. Griffo's Roman birth and globe-circling past as a diplomat's daughter set her apart from other female amateur sleuths; her "troubles" are well-plotted, entertaining puzzles. Mary Carroll --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm) (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061091545
• ISBN-13: 978-0061091544
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,105,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)