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Murder Can Cool Off Your Affair by Selma Eichler

avigail's review

3.0

For someone whose private eye investigating has been heavily weighted toward finding missing pets, suddenly being called upon to find out who's trying to kill John Lander is more than a little nerve wracking. Desirée Shapiro suggests that a bodyguard might be a preferable choice, but John and his wife Trudie insists that she is just the person they need. While the police are skeptical about the murder attempt, Shapiro takes the report seriously. After all, John's cousin has just been shot to death, leaving John next in line to inherit a fortune-if he lives-and there are several other cousins who will benefit greatly if he doesn't. So the search begins, with Shapiro interrogating all the most likely suspects and seemingly getting no closer to her main goal, but discovering many family secrets in the process. Eventually, as one might expect, the pieces do fall into place. MURDER CAN COOL OFF YOUR AFFAIR is probably at its best in its descriptions of some of the fringe characters--the septuagenarian father of a friend, Shapiro's secretary, and others who don't figure in the main plot but who do add amusing asides to a generally entertaining novel.