But I Wouldn't Want to Die There (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 8) [Mass Market Paperback]

Nancy Pickard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1994

After the brutal murder of her friend Carol Margolis, Jenny Cain travels to New York, where she takes charge of Carol's job and the murder investigation. Reprint.

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From Publishers Weekly

is the Anthony and Agatha Awards-winner's splendid eighth Jenny Cain mystery.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

YA-In her eighth series entry, Pickard sets Jenny down smack on West End Avenue in New York City. She's been asked to be interim director for the charitable Hart Foundation, a vacancy caused by the brutal murder of her best friend, Carol Margolis. The police assume that Carol was just the unlucky victim of a routine mugging gone wrong, but Jenny recalls Carol's cryptic last phone message and suspects that her murder was connected to her job. As the young woman digs through her friend's files and meets some of the zany characters who seem to thrive and prosper in the Big Apple, she realizes that many people had the means and motive to kill Carol, including her supposedly grief-stricken, estranged husband. A great balance of laughs and tears, thrills and chills, and a delight from start to finish.
Susan R. Farber, Chappaqua Public Library, NY
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket; First Edition edition (July 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671723316
• ISBN-13: 978-0671723316
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,176,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smashing!, October 7, 2003

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Valerie Adolph "Coast Journal" (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: But I Wouldn't Want to Die There (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 8) (Hardcover)

It takes a really exceptional American writer to wean me away from my favourite English historical mysteries, but Nancy Pickard is such a smooth and accomplished writer that I can't resist her books. I just don't know what took me so long to find them.

It doesn't matter what aspect of mystery writing you consider, this writer can handle it flawlessly. She hooks in the reader effortlessly, her sense of place is awesome, and my pea brain doesn't get the characters muddled up, one with the other. The plot, the pacing, the motivation - it's all extremely well done.

In this story Jenny Cain moves to New York to fill in for her murdered friend Carol and there she finds a confused and confusing place, with characters to match. Her own personal battle - to stay there or return home to a quiet backwoods town - is the underlying counterpoint to the more immediate dangers she faces as she tries to discover how Carol met her death.

It's a book you won't want to put down.