Review: Decent Entry in a Series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
I enjoyed the book but not as much as the two others by the author that I have read; nevertheless, I would expect most readers who have followed this series will read it with pleasure. Following a series by an author with whose characters one has become involved is much different than reading without fixing on particular writers with whose work one feels comfortable. That has been true of me, at any rate. When the works of Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), the two cousins who were Ellery Queen, Richard and Frances Lockridge (Mr. and Mrs. North and the two major offsprings of that series) and others of that era and today (Kaminsky and Company), some books I liked more than others, but I would still look to read all of them because I had become attached to the style and the characters with their distinctive ways. I have not yet reached that  point with Karen Cantwell but I see from the reviews that others  have. I would surely recommend the book for these fans and incipient fans (myself included). For others who have not read anything by the author, I would give a conditional  recommendation: not everyone is going to take to this middle aged woman with  former FBI husband, their children and their respective mothers who have a role to play in this book. The latter can give her a trial with this book, in which she is more than a  little cantankerous at the fact that Age 50 is looming within the year. If you like this one, you are very likely going to like its predecessors. ( I have the succeeding volume in the series but have not gotten to  it yet.)