Charlie's Web: A Mystery by L. L. Thrasher  (2)
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Young Lizbet Lange, former waitress, inherits a fortune from her 60-year-old ex-husband. She decides to install a pool at her new mansion, but workers discover a skeleton and police investigate. Lizbet informs them of the skeleton's identity?even though the man died 27 years ago?because his spirit/ghost "talks" to her. Lizbet and the ghost, an undercover cop presumed to have absconded with a million dollars, proceed to clear his name. Though this is seemingly far-fetched, the unusual plot, gentle humor, and unlikely heroine ultimately prove captivating. A sequel is in the works.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Lizbet Lange is an ex^-truckstop waitress who married a rich old man and inherited his fortune. Workmen installing a pool next to her mansion uncover a skeleton, the remains of a murdered undercover police officer named Charlie Bilbo. The disturbance causes Charlie's ghost to return and ask Lizbet to solve his murder. Charlie's son and ex-wife appear shortly thereafter with clues and suspicious behavior. Lizbet, Charlie's ghost, and his son solve the murder, but only after they dig into a blood-soaked drug deal from the late 1960s. Thrasher's second mystery suffers a bit from some occasionally cloying characters, but this shortcoming is offset by an original plot, effective use of a ghost as a character, and an intriguing juxtaposition of contemporary and 1960s society, nicely linked by well-placed flashbacks. John Rowen
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Young Lizbet Lange, former waitress, inherits a fortune from her 60-year-old ex-husband. She decides to install a pool at her new mansion, but workers discover a skeleton and police investigate. Lizbet informs them of the skeleton's identity?even though the man died 27 years ago?because his spirit/ghost "talks" to her. Lizbet and the ghost, an undercover cop presumed to have absconded with a million dollars, proceed to clear his name. Though this is seemingly far-fetched, the unusual plot, gentle humor, and unlikely heroine ultimately prove captivating. A sequel is in the works.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Lizbet Lange is an ex^-truckstop waitress who married a rich old man and inherited his fortune. Workmen installing a pool next to her mansion uncover a skeleton, the remains of a murdered undercover police officer named Charlie Bilbo. The disturbance causes Charlie's ghost to return and ask Lizbet to solve his murder. Charlie's son and ex-wife appear shortly thereafter with clues and suspicious behavior. Lizbet, Charlie's ghost, and his son solve the murder, but only after they dig into a blood-soaked drug deal from the late 1960s. Thrasher's second mystery suffers a bit from some occasionally cloying characters, but this shortcoming is offset by an original plot, effective use of a ghost as a character, and an intriguing juxtaposition of contemporary and 1960s society, nicely linked by well-placed flashbacks. John Rowen
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