Review: Another good Jennifer Marsh read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
When Jennifer Marsh is forced to testify that she saw her friend, Emma Walker, standing by the swimming pool at Emma's ex-husband's estate holding a knife while Edgar Walker's body was floating in said pool, killed by a knife stabbing, she tried to evade the question and ended up being arrested for contempt of court.  Jennifer didn't believe Emma could have committed the crime and the prosecutor saw it as the obvious solution.  Journalist Sam Culpepper, Jennifer's longtime and patient boyfriend paid to get her released the next morning.Jennifer decided the only way to prove Emma's innocence was to find the actual killer who she is certain is Edgar's current wife, Lisa.  With the assistance of the other members of her writing group and Sam, she set out to do just that.  Among her discoveries are a stolen identity, a secret sauce, and confused family relationships.Jennifer also weaves a fictional story of her mystery story heroine, Maxie Malone, into the plot as a way to figure out how she, Jennifer, should act and how to solve the crime.As usual, Judy Fitzwater writes a quickly paced, well-written, clever book.  One favorite segment: "She wasn't abut to let Lisa throw her off with criticism.  She knew all about those tactics.  She's had parents."One criticism, there is some repetition as Jennifer reviews some of the information she, and we, already know.  It isn't done as often or in as much detail as most other authors do, though.