Review: More Mysterious Fun with Sam Darling
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
This is the second in the Sam Darling mystery series that I've read (haven't reviewed the first one, yet. Sorry!). Like "Who Killed My Boss?" this is a light, often humorous mystery written in first person. Sam and her dog, Clancy, once again get into plenty of trouble while Sam doggedly pursues the culprit in a series of poisonings that have killed or sickened several people along with some dogs. I'm not going to give the plot synopsis, as it's all over the page, so I'll just say that author Jerilyn Dufresne has a knack for writing well-paced fiction that never lags. In the interest of full disclosure, I did figure out who the killer was early in the book, but not due to any missing clues or miscues from the author. Despite that, the book is interesting throughout, and in fact, I got the first of several laughs right on the second page. That's why she gets a 5-star rating from me. Dufresne does an excellent job with dialogue and description, as well as the occasional, unexpected turn of phrase or action that lends humor to the story. I like that. I'll definitely read every book in the series as long as Dufresne continues to crank them out.