Review: The other side of Parnell Hall
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2012
This was my first Stanley Hastings mystery by Parnell Hall. I've read all of the author's puzzle lady books and enjoy that series very much.So it came as quite a surprise, being a mostly cozy mystery reader, that I could not stop reading this book. Poor Standley Hastings is not you typical P.I. He just isn't that independent at all. He has to go to his boss for advice and of course to MacAullif at the police dept for all his feed back.Stanley and MacAullif make quite a team. In fact, their dialogue had me laughing out loud. The book was just that funny.All in all I will be reading more of P.H.'s Stanley Hastings series. It is so different from any other mysteries I've read whether cozies or straight mysteries. The story flows, okay so it flows with Stanley's incompetence, but I found him to be a likable chap.I can easily recommend this book and series to mystery lovers as long as you know...this is not a cozy. Just try page one and you're hooked.