by Jean Ruryk
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From Publishers Weekly
Ruryk's second suspense novel (after Chicken Little Was Right) finds 60-something Cat Wilde, who refinishes antique furniture, caring for an amnesiac bag lady. Even through the grime and stench surrounding the homeless woman, Cat recognizes Jennifer Steele, a childhood friend of her deceased daughter, when she sees her on the street. Jennifer doesn't know much about herself but agrees to go home with Cat. Cat enlists the help of friends?Mike, a retired police reporter, and Larry, a gay millionaire who had always admired Jennifer?to find out why the young woman doesn't remember much about her life. The events they uncover include the hit-and-run accident that led to Jennifer's homelessness and a drug dealing, blackmailing former boyfriend, who is soon murdered. As Jennifer gradually recovers her memory (and her career), Cat and friends realize that they must identify her boyfriend's murderer before he succeeds in killing Jennifer. Fans of feisty Cat and garrulous Mike will welcome this well-plotted tale, studded with tidbits from the antique trade.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Everybody hopes to find treasures among the trash in antique shops, but furniture restorer Catherine Wilde hits the jackpot at Canterbury House: a bag lady who turns out to be Jennifer Steele, onetime TV actress and childhood friend of Cat's late daughter Laurie. Cat takes Jenny home, gets her a medical checkup, gently massages her memory, and soon discovers the trauma that pushed her into the streets: the murder of her lover, press photographer Jason Cody, at their apartment last year, and the subsequent attempt on Jenny's own life by a hit-and-run driver. Now that Jenny's slowly getting back to something like her old self, it looks like the killer's back in full force, too, attacking Jenny and killing her devoted fan, Canterbury House buyer Larry Mendelsohn. Are the murders tied in to a packet of nasty photos with another antique connection, or to the possibly bigamous second marriage of dazzling, egocentric Nancy Lee Rountree, Jason's ex? Just keep an eye on Cat and her unlikely allies--ex- police reporter Mike Melnyk, whose heart's as big as a house but not as strong, and his estranged foster son Nick Kramer, who may be a gangster as well as a lawyer. Cat's thin but entertaining second outing (Chicken Little Was Right, 1994, not reviewed) is full of heartwarming recoveries, dead-ended subplots, alarums and excursions--just not much mystery or detection. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Ruryk's second suspense novel (after Chicken Little Was Right) finds 60-something Cat Wilde, who refinishes antique furniture, caring for an amnesiac bag lady. Even through the grime and stench surrounding the homeless woman, Cat recognizes Jennifer Steele, a childhood friend of her deceased daughter, when she sees her on the street. Jennifer doesn't know much about herself but agrees to go home with Cat. Cat enlists the help of friends?Mike, a retired police reporter, and Larry, a gay millionaire who had always admired Jennifer?to find out why the young woman doesn't remember much about her life. The events they uncover include the hit-and-run accident that led to Jennifer's homelessness and a drug dealing, blackmailing former boyfriend, who is soon murdered. As Jennifer gradually recovers her memory (and her career), Cat and friends realize that they must identify her boyfriend's murderer before he succeeds in killing Jennifer. Fans of feisty Cat and garrulous Mike will welcome this well-plotted tale, studded with tidbits from the antique trade.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Everybody hopes to find treasures among the trash in antique shops, but furniture restorer Catherine Wilde hits the jackpot at Canterbury House: a bag lady who turns out to be Jennifer Steele, onetime TV actress and childhood friend of Cat's late daughter Laurie. Cat takes Jenny home, gets her a medical checkup, gently massages her memory, and soon discovers the trauma that pushed her into the streets: the murder of her lover, press photographer Jason Cody, at their apartment last year, and the subsequent attempt on Jenny's own life by a hit-and-run driver. Now that Jenny's slowly getting back to something like her old self, it looks like the killer's back in full force, too, attacking Jenny and killing her devoted fan, Canterbury House buyer Larry Mendelsohn. Are the murders tied in to a packet of nasty photos with another antique connection, or to the possibly bigamous second marriage of dazzling, egocentric Nancy Lee Rountree, Jason's ex? Just keep an eye on Cat and her unlikely allies--ex- police reporter Mike Melnyk, whose heart's as big as a house but not as strong, and his estranged foster son Nick Kramer, who may be a gangster as well as a lawyer. Cat's thin but entertaining second outing (Chicken Little Was Right, 1994, not reviewed) is full of heartwarming recoveries, dead-ended subplots, alarums and excursions--just not much mystery or detection. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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