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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Benjamin's second series mystery fulfills the promise of her debut, This Dog for Hire (LJ 11/1/96). A wealthy couple hire Rachel Alexander, a free-spirited sleuth who lives in Greenwich Village with her pit bull, Dashiell, to find out why their apparently happy daughter jumped out a fifth-floor window. Rachel finds the answer (murder, of course) by "assuming" the dead woman's life: wearing her clothes, learning t'ai chi, and meeting her friends. Crisp, clean, and focused, with a great heroine and canines; an enjoyable read.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
Why mess with success? Dog-trainer/p.i. Rachel Alexander's second case is so much like her fine debut (This Dog for Hire, 1996) that she could sue herself for plagiarism. Again there's a mysterious death--this time t'ai chi instructor Lisa Jacobs's alleged suicide--witnessed only by the victim's dog; again the stricken survivors are looking for an explanation for the inexplicable (why would got-it-all Lisa leave a note saying, ``I'm sorry. Lisa,'' and take a header out her window?); again Rachel hits the mean streets accompanied by her pit bull Dash. ``You won't learn anything worthwhile about Lisa by asking questions,'' Lisa's mentor and former boss Avi Ashkenasi tells Rachel. ``You must walk in her shoes.'' So as Rachel sweats to figure out which of Lisa's friends and students would've been most unhinged by her plans to move to China--and sweats too at the t'ai chi studio, the swimming pool, and the gym where she goes to ask all the questions she shouldn't--she wears Lisa's perfume and bracelet as well as her shoes, carries her keys, and beds her lover, half-Chinese swim coach Paul Wilcox. But her attempts to isolate a prime suspect fail when the front-runner gets killed--just like last time--clearing the way for another ton of moondust and (a sad innovation) an abrupt and arbitrary climax. Rachel's fans are advised to sit out her case of second- novel blues and wait for next year. If you missed her first, though, you may want to check out the most helpful canine sleuth since Asta. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Benjamin's second series mystery fulfills the promise of her debut, This Dog for Hire (LJ 11/1/96). A wealthy couple hire Rachel Alexander, a free-spirited sleuth who lives in Greenwich Village with her pit bull, Dashiell, to find out why their apparently happy daughter jumped out a fifth-floor window. Rachel finds the answer (murder, of course) by "assuming" the dead woman's life: wearing her clothes, learning t'ai chi, and meeting her friends. Crisp, clean, and focused, with a great heroine and canines; an enjoyable read.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
Why mess with success? Dog-trainer/p.i. Rachel Alexander's second case is so much like her fine debut (This Dog for Hire, 1996) that she could sue herself for plagiarism. Again there's a mysterious death--this time t'ai chi instructor Lisa Jacobs's alleged suicide--witnessed only by the victim's dog; again the stricken survivors are looking for an explanation for the inexplicable (why would got-it-all Lisa leave a note saying, ``I'm sorry. Lisa,'' and take a header out her window?); again Rachel hits the mean streets accompanied by her pit bull Dash. ``You won't learn anything worthwhile about Lisa by asking questions,'' Lisa's mentor and former boss Avi Ashkenasi tells Rachel. ``You must walk in her shoes.'' So as Rachel sweats to figure out which of Lisa's friends and students would've been most unhinged by her plans to move to China--and sweats too at the t'ai chi studio, the swimming pool, and the gym where she goes to ask all the questions she shouldn't--she wears Lisa's perfume and bracelet as well as her shoes, carries her keys, and beds her lover, half-Chinese swim coach Paul Wilcox. But her attempts to isolate a prime suspect fail when the front-runner gets killed--just like last time--clearing the way for another ton of moondust and (a sad innovation) an abrupt and arbitrary climax. Rachel's fans are advised to sit out her case of second- novel blues and wait for next year. If you missed her first, though, you may want to check out the most helpful canine sleuth since Asta. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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