Review: A Nice Find
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2011
I'd never read Bennett before this novel and quite enjoyed myself. BLIND TRAVELER'S BLUES is a mystery that fits into that sub-genre of amateur detective. A computer detective blinded a few years before by a stray bullet in a drive-by shooting, he seems to have a nose for trouble.On vacation, he meets Dr. Cara Cordelia, a plant specialist headed for a conference on a new corn blight released from an artifact found in an old village in Mexico and spreading north. They make a connection and plan for dinner later.The dinner is cut short when she has stomach problems and when he hears on the radio the next morning of her death, he's determined to learn what happened.It comes up murder, she was poisoned, and Abledan starts remembering odors on the plane and the restaurant the night before that were similar.It was quite a lot of fun as he plugs along, ignoring warnings from the cop that wants no help from civilians and who comes to suspect him, from the cop who wants to help him, but also wonders, the friends and colleagues that seem, to his ear, holding something back.I've already purchased the first Abledan novel, BLIND TRAVELER DOWN A DARK RIVER.