Review: Pleasant Addition to Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2011
For those of us who have listened to (or read) the two previous adventures of the college professor who uses her special knowledge to aid the police in the solution of crimes, this is a pleasant, if not exciting, reunion with familiar characters. For newcomers, it should be sufficiently entertaining, to warrant purchasing the two earlier books in this series carried on Kindle. I make the distinction between newcomers and veteran readers because the author has fallen into a pattern which is no longer as fresh it was. Still readable but no longer distinctive. Perhaps a little of the same feeling has struck the author since I see (and have purchased but not yet read) the first in a new series by her appearing on Kindle.In this volume, as in the first of the series, a faculty colleague, the enormously successful football coach, has been struck down after a bit of sex not with his invalid wife. Who dun it. The Professor is called in again by the detective in charge of the investigation to apply herself to analyzing the messages left on his cell phone. She does her job insofar as the evidence allows, solicits closer, continuing relationships, with the Detective and, well, you can take it from there.An interesting aspect of this book is the way in which the author allows the professor's modesty about her contribution (put on to assuage her husbands distaste for the danger she has faced in previous cases) to be an accurate appraisal of her actual role.At any rate, as I have said, this is a well-written books, as are the previous ones in the series, by a retired Academic, who makes good use of her knowledge of the foibles of that profession, It is a fast read which intends to avoid the complications of a Ross MacDonald or a Patricia Cornwall, and succeeds to the benefit of the reader who seeks only light escape reading,