ibeforem 's review for:

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore

4.0

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This was my favorite of the three Pine Cove books. Here we get what Moore does best — a colorful cast of characters mired in an extremely unusual situation. In this case, there’s a mysterious sea beast in town, making the newly un-drugged residents of Pine Cove somewhat… amorous. Constable Theo Crowe knows *something* is going on, but he’s not too sure what. All he knows is that he doesn’t believe housewife Bess Leander killed herself, and it’s up to him to find out who really killed her. The only one who really has an idea of what is going on is mostly-out-of-her-mind ex-B-movie-queen Molly Michon, and who’s going to believe her? This is the Moore I first enjoyed with A Dirty Job.