Review: You feel comfortable with these characters
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2012
Right away you feel comfortable with the characters Mimi Gibbons has created. Professor Clifford Oates, in his middle years but seems older, gray hair, cardigan and reading glasses. You know him from your high school or college. Jack Roy Ritter spends time behind bars developing his skills as a writer. So he's a bad guy, but one you can root for because he is improving himself. Ashleigh Warren, who is bored as an attorney for Lindsey & Osborne, not unlike many workers at routine jobs. She comes alive after five, though, when she gets to work alongside the firm's gumshoe, C. Taylor Goodwin. You know people who use their middle names but want you to know there is a name worthy only of an initial that precedes it. He's a flashy dresser, Southern gentlemen and has a crush on "you sweet thing" Ashleigh. Before Mimi gets to Chapter 2 she has hooked you. The mystery that brings all these characters together -- well, at first it is hardly a mystery, more a curiosity -- draws you in. It gets you thinking right away what you would do if faced with the same circumstances. You're glad to join Clifford and Ashley and Taylor #make that C. Taylor# to discover the clues and solve the puzzle. This was fun. Hopefully Mimi will have more puzzles so we can follow these characters, who become our friends, in solving them too.