Review: A wonderful story, beautifully told!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
Lady Blues (A Gus LeGarde MysteryI’m an avid fan of Aaron Lazar’s books.  Having just read the last chapter of ‘Lady Blues’, I couldn’t help thinking what a crime it would be if these stories never found their way onto television.  They are exactly right for the screen in the way that Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie and Walton’s Mountain are right.  The adventures of Gus and his characters, (including animals) could be never-ending, providing hours of viewing entertainment.Aaron Lazar is as much a poet as he is a novelist and his flowing description will put you squarely in the setting, complete with smells, sounds, taste, touch.  While the mystery is intrinsic to  ‘Lady Blues’, (several mysteries actually, including what might have happened to band leader of the 1940s, Glenn Miller) the sensuality embodied in the gardening and cooking passages (scrumptious reading) is wonderful.  I could put on weight just reading them.  :)  Gosh, I hope not.As well, the story deals with important issues such as inter-racial marriage, the greed of big drug corporations, and the loss of a loved one.  It resonates with both tragedy and triumph, just like life.  But the main draw in the authors work is its big heart and the love and compassion that spills from the author’s own heart.  As well as being the results of a vivid imagination, the work is drawn from a rich life.  I highly recommend not only ‘Lady Blues’ but anything this man writes.