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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
lighthearted sexagenarian whodunit,
This review is from: A Wrinkle in Crime (Five Star Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)
When sixty-seven years old May Bell List reads in the Spokane about the death of Gerty Peach from a heart attack, she has problems accepting that the bouncy woman who ran in a race two weeks ago died from natural causes. She decides she must do something about what the police choose to ignore.
May visits the deceased's two sisters, Inez and Bertha, in the suburb of Harvest as she knows them. They seem gleeful over the death of their haughty odious sibling, who planned to shut down their business the Poochie Hooch dog grooming facility. As she continues to dig and drive the small town police over the edge with her arresting innocent people, shooting tires, and hobnobbing with hookers, May finds herself in trouble with a killer who wants the geriatric silent and there is nobody to help her because the cops believe this menace to society is the offspring of Typhoid Mary and Peter of the wolf fame. The antics that May Bell does makes her a menace to society and herself deserving lock up as she crosses a safety line that endangers others with her shoot from the hip actions. Readers will admire this courageous sexagenarian who feels it is her civil duty to investigate a homicide while everyone else prefers the official position, but would also prefer she did it in someone else's state. May's need to do what she perceives is the right thing is commendable, but her missteps turn this into a lighthearted whodunit that clearly says leave sleuthing to the professionals. Harriet Klausner
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lacks Something Without the Other Eccentric Elderly Characters of the First Book,
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This review is from: A Wrinkle in Crime (Five Star Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)
Elderly lead character May List, returns from the successful Death For Dessert. Only problem with this adventure is she's back with her husband and therefore no longer in the retirement home. The elderly eccentric characters from the first novel certainly added a lot more humour and action than May can carry on her own. May does give it a good go at times (her chase of criminals while driving a police car, blaming her theft of a angry Asian lady's shopping trolley on her local priest in the supermarket and discussions while locked up for murder in a holding cell with a couple of prostitutes is classic humour. Unfortunately this type of action is few and far between with a lot of padding making up the majority of the text. Without the other oldies the book just doesn't reach anywhere near the heights Death for Dessert did but I believe the other retirement home residents return for the third book in this series Digging Up Otis so I'll check that out but I wouldn't if they weren't there. Mavis also seems to be less intelligent in this novel with dumbing her down needed to get laughs at the McDonalds Drive thru to make up for the other eccentric characters not being there.
In a Wrinkle in Crime May List learns by reading in a Spokane newspaper that her friend died of a heart attack. Mavis met up with her not long before and knows she was in perfect health. She immediately suspects fowl play and is determined to play detective. She is also scheduled for a ride along with the Spokane Police Department but requests a transfer to neighbouring town of Harvest as she believes she will be able to access the files on her friend's death while there. There are a few other authors out there who fight the stereotype that old people are useless and also have their crafty old and very interesting characters save the day also check out the masterpiece Retirement Homes Are Murder by Mike Befeler and also On the Warpath by Gerald Hammond.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great cozy senior protagonist,
By Dawn Dowdle "Mystery Lovers Corner reviewer" (Lynchburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: A Wrinkle in Crime (Five Star Mystery) (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)
After May Bell's success in two previous murder investigations, she signs up for a civilian ride-along program to gain more experience. In her zeal to prove her abilities, she steals and destroys the police cruiser and makes a citizen's arrest of two men fleeing after she thought she saw them holding up the convenience store. In the process she also blew out the tires of their vehicle with a shot gun. Unfortunately Office Murphy explains she arrested two innocent men.
Plus the sister of her friends, the Peach sisters, has died. She's certain there's more to it than the police believe. So she sets out to discover the truth. In the process of investigating, she ends up in jail, has to talk to many unsavory characters, and has people after her. Can she find the killer without putting herself in any more danger? I really enjoy May Bell's antics. She's a senior citizen with a lot of spunk and determination. She has her share of blunders, but she keeps at it. In this book I missed the residents of the senior facility she previously lived in, but May Bell found plenty of new ways to entertain the reader without them. I recommend this book.
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