Review: A Woman of My Own Heart
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2012
I had a fine time reading this cozy mystery. I read Christie, and others of the same ilk, quite a lot in my younger days. Not so much in the last thirty or so. But I'm quite fond of the author's writing and have come to expect entertaining stuff whatever genre he tackles.I wasn't disappointed this time around either.A police inspector calls Granny Smith "Miss Marple of steroids" a couple of times in the book. Apt. Miss Marple was the prim proper lady of her times as granny is a woman of hers. Pipe-smoking, heavy metal listening, I didn't find that at all unusual. I'm of the same age myself and i still listen to hard rock and metal. It was the stuff I grew up with and the stuff I'll likely be listening to on the last day of my life.A friend of Granny's(she gets the nickname from her love of the apple of the same name even though she is a grandmother and Smith is her married name) is found murdered and the police suspect the husband. They'd been seen arguing at the festival shortly before she was last seen and a few hours before the body turns up. Granny finds the idea of the husband as a murderer completely abhorrent and sets out in true amateur detective fashion to find the real murderer.Highly recommended.