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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Some fine characterization helps offset an overly complicated plot in Fitzhugh's second mystery to star veteran disc jockey and rookie PI Rick Shannon (after 2004's Radio Activity). Now working at a radio station in Vicksburg, Miss. (and more into old blues than rock), Rick also heads Rockin'Vestigations, to which an attractive young woman who calls herself Lollie Woolfolk applies for help in finding her missing grandfather, Tucker Woolfolk, an old-time record producer. When Rick discovers Tucker dead, he has a murder case on his hands. Then Lollie disappears, and another gal claiming to be Lollie Woolfolk turns up. The eccentric, mostly elderly cast includes the members of the blues group BCC (short for Blind, Crippled and Crazy); a pill-crazy killer; a crooked, prejudiced and big-bellied white sheriff; and an innocent black man released from jail after doing 50 years for murder and ready for revenge. Providing comic relief is a sickly alley cat Rick befriends. A search for the old tape of a legendary blues session by BCC generates some suspense, even if its fate remains unclear. Fans of Radio Activity may be disappointed that Rick's detective work leaves him so little time behind the mike. Agent, Jimmy Vines. Author tour. (Apr. 12)
From Booklist
This is the second outing for rock DJ and amateur investigator Rick Shannon, following Radio Activity [BKL Mr 1 04]. This time Rick is hired to track down two elderly former radio-station owners, but they are both murdered within days of Rick's locating them. He soon discovers that valuable tapes of a legendary blues recording dubbed the Blind, Crippled, and Crazy session, long the subject of rumor, are, in fact, real and may be the object of the killer's murderous quest. In addition, he falls hard for client and martial-arts expert Lollie Woolfolk, and their light and witty banter is one of the novel's high points. Fitzhugh also has a field day parading his in-depth knowledge of the blues, its many colorful practitioners, and its storied past. He is less successful with a lame running gag about Rick's ailing pet and his many grand pronouncements about racism in the music industry. Still, for fans of Ace Atkins' Crossroad Blues (1998), also about the discovery of lost blues recordings, this one plays nicely. Joanne Wilkinson
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Some fine characterization helps offset an overly complicated plot in Fitzhugh's second mystery to star veteran disc jockey and rookie PI Rick Shannon (after 2004's Radio Activity). Now working at a radio station in Vicksburg, Miss. (and more into old blues than rock), Rick also heads Rockin'Vestigations, to which an attractive young woman who calls herself Lollie Woolfolk applies for help in finding her missing grandfather, Tucker Woolfolk, an old-time record producer. When Rick discovers Tucker dead, he has a murder case on his hands. Then Lollie disappears, and another gal claiming to be Lollie Woolfolk turns up. The eccentric, mostly elderly cast includes the members of the blues group BCC (short for Blind, Crippled and Crazy); a pill-crazy killer; a crooked, prejudiced and big-bellied white sheriff; and an innocent black man released from jail after doing 50 years for murder and ready for revenge. Providing comic relief is a sickly alley cat Rick befriends. A search for the old tape of a legendary blues session by BCC generates some suspense, even if its fate remains unclear. Fans of Radio Activity may be disappointed that Rick's detective work leaves him so little time behind the mike. Agent, Jimmy Vines. Author tour. (Apr. 12)
From Booklist
This is the second outing for rock DJ and amateur investigator Rick Shannon, following Radio Activity [BKL Mr 1 04]. This time Rick is hired to track down two elderly former radio-station owners, but they are both murdered within days of Rick's locating them. He soon discovers that valuable tapes of a legendary blues recording dubbed the Blind, Crippled, and Crazy session, long the subject of rumor, are, in fact, real and may be the object of the killer's murderous quest. In addition, he falls hard for client and martial-arts expert Lollie Woolfolk, and their light and witty banter is one of the novel's high points. Fitzhugh also has a field day parading his in-depth knowledge of the blues, its many colorful practitioners, and its storied past. He is less successful with a lame running gag about Rick's ailing pet and his many grand pronouncements about racism in the music industry. Still, for fans of Ace Atkins' Crossroad Blues (1998), also about the discovery of lost blues recordings, this one plays nicely. Joanne Wilkinson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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