Again this week I was seven for eight; although I enjoyed this week's selections much more than last. In fact, I'm having a hard time choosing my top pick. I liked Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders. I'm up to G in Sue Grafton's alphabet, and that is a good one too.
But this week, I'm going to have to pick the one that made me laugh, and that is Steamed by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant. Amateur sleuth, Chloe Carter is so down-to-earth that you can imagine she's an old pal. And her foibles, which she endures with such awkward humanity, provide more than a couple of chuckles.
While Year of Wonders is a poignant tale of masks and motives and mores in society with a very well-thought-out ending, and G is for Gumshoe is the quintessential "private dick" mystery with the small twist that it's a woman and not a man doing the detecting, Steamed is a very funny tale of what happens after one of the worst blind dates in fiction. And it's summertime, so we should be laughing.
2 comments:
I'm so flattered by your lovely review of my first book! If you email me your address, I'd be happy to get you copies of Simmer Down and Turn Up the Heat.
Many thanks,
Jessica Conant-Park
jessica@conantpark.com
I'm always looking for new mystery writers, and Conant-Park and Conant sound like winners.
You might like J.A. Jance (a woman) who has several series, two about female sleuths, but the one I like the best is about a middle age police dectective J.P. Beaumont set in Seattle.
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