Review: Easy, breezy writing style and plot makes for a fun read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2012
This was an unexpected free treat on Kindle.  Heroine Candace Grey is a grad student and teacher at a Michigan college.  Academically things are going OK but her relationship with fellow teacher and live-in lover Jeff is going nowhere.  She wants marriage.  He doesn't.  And she's starting to suspect there's someone else.Candace is going by herself to California for the summer to do research in L.A. for her master's thesis, about 1950s/1960s T.V. sitcom moms, in particular one played by the late actress Pamela Parrish, and gender roles in society.  Before her stop in L.A. she's heading to San Francisco for the memorial service of her recently deceased Aunt Ruth.This whole summer trip has Candace meeting lots of new people, reassessing lots of things in her life, and investigating what may possibly be the long-ago murder of Pamela Parrish, rather than the suicide she is believed to have committed.There's a great cast of 3-dimensional and appealing characters here, breezy dialogue and writing style, good if at times predictable plot, great descriptions of San Francisco, fun and entertaining writing in the first person, and it was a treat to read a free Kindle book that was actually well written and, for the most part, free of spelling, grammatical, and format errors.