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Murder Past Due
by Miranda James
This was light and enjoyable - just what I wanted to while away a holiday afternoon.
I'm a total sucker for a book with a pretty cat on the cover but have no time at all for stories with cat-as-detective. I love cats and I want my cats to be real cats and on that score the author did pretty well. Though Diesel the Maine Coon at times comes across as cat-cum-new-age-healer, mostly he's just a great companion for his owner, widower and librarian Charlie Harris who gets drawn into a murder case involving a young man who lodges with him.
The mystery is done well; nobody likes the unpleasant sob who was murdered so there's a good list of suspects with hidden truths continuing to unravel as the story proceeds. However I remain unsure as to how some of the slighter suspects were supposed to have overpowered a large fit man.
I read it in a single sitting, it did what it said on the can, no complaints. I understand this is the author's first novel, if in the next we get as good a story with just a little less of humdrum daily life, just a little less niceness, just a tad less political correctness, I might just go to four stars.
Five stars for the cover by the way. It totally sold me the book.
I'm a total sucker for a book with a pretty cat on the cover but have no time at all for stories with cat-as-detective. I love cats and I want my cats to be real cats and on that score the author did pretty well. Though Diesel the Maine Coon at times comes across as cat-cum-new-age-healer, mostly he's just a great companion for his owner, widower and librarian Charlie Harris who gets drawn into a murder case involving a young man who lodges with him.
The mystery is done well; nobody likes the unpleasant sob who was murdered so there's a good list of suspects with hidden truths continuing to unravel as the story proceeds. However I remain unsure as to how some of the slighter suspects were supposed to have overpowered a large fit man.
I read it in a single sitting, it did what it said on the can, no complaints. I understand this is the author's first novel, if in the next we get as good a story with just a little less of humdrum daily life, just a little less niceness, just a tad less political correctness, I might just go to four stars.
Five stars for the cover by the way. It totally sold me the book.