Review: Good first.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2013
A great start on a new female protagonist for us mystery and detective lovers.The book is refreshing with the wisecracking and asides between Liza and Jack, Remington Steele like, and a fun read.  I enjoyed it, but it was amateurish in that characters like John Gainey were not fleshed out.  I'm still wondering why he didn't pick Liza up at the airport in Savannah like he said he was going to do in his phone message, and why if he was so eligible had he not married. I thought maybe he was gay or a pervert or something and simply wanted a ditzy wife as a cover-up. He was too perfect.  I wished she had introduced Eddie the homeless character that saved her in the park earlier so that he would not appear to jump out of thin air, Maybe waving one day as she passed hauntingly by in her jazzy VW or somewhere else in the book so that he was not a complete surprise to her when he did appear, but most importantly to the reader.The solving of the arsonist caper was too quick and too pat, almost like it was hurriedly tacked on.  Did she even have to slide a round off the magazine to cock the Glock?  Had Jack showed her how before?  Did Jack always leave cocked automatics laying around ready to simply point and pull the trigger?It's these little things that are disconcerting and hard to understand from a professional writer.Still, I gave it a four because it was entertaining. I hope the future Liza books will get even better.