Review: A wonderful way with words
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2011
DEAD RED HEART BY REBECCA DAHLKELalla Bains, a crop-dusting pilot, has a love-sick stalker, Billy. But after Billy showers paper snowflakes over her beloved Cadillac, Lalla thinks enough is enough. She had only thought to firmly warn off her love-sick would-be swain, but someone else had it in for Billy. Intent on confrontation, Lalla finds Billy dying in a back alley, a pair of scissors sticking out of his chest.Meanwhile, her father's love life is proving trying. The skinflint is squiring Lalla's grade-school teacher around to funerals and wakes, regardless of Lalla's feelings.Lalla's lawman boyfriend, Caleb Stone tries to  restrain Lalla's desire to hunt the killer herself, but the headstrong Lalla determines that, as her reputation is being besmirched, she needs to take hold of the problem head on and solve the case herself.Ms Dahlke has a wonderful way with words. A gripping mystery which you won't want to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed it.