Review: Good Read and Pleasant Surprise
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2013
I found this book on Amazon for free.  So I took a chance.  I grew up reading Detective Novels, John D. MacDonald, Mickey Spillane and Richard Prather among others.  I have always enjoyed this genre.  Imagine my surprise to find a well written current version by a youngish Canadian author.The book was pleasantly free of many of the current common plot elements, though you did have the main character torn between two men.  She was not helpless nor a klutz and she seemed to work in a manner that would be plausible for a PI in todays world.  Other than a few descriptions of outfits she was wearing men will have no trouble relating to the story and the main characters.  The subject was a little dark but well handled and the plot was not only plausible but could have come from a daily paper anywhere in the US or Canada.  If this book shined a little less than flattering light on the adult entertainment industry I don't think is a good thing.  The internet has depersonalized so many things and has lent legitimacy to many things that probably need more scrutiny.Don't get me wrong I enjoy some of the humorous mysteries and even read some of the "cozies"  but it was nice to read a well written well plotted plausible mystery with a main character that you could identify with and who just could be real.  Well done Ms. Edmondson.  My only problem is now I am going to need to go buy all the books in the series that came before this one (This is apparently #4).  So maybe grabbing that free book wasn't such a good idea after all.  Nope: I enjoyed reading it too much, so I will happily fork over the "dough" (classic PI lingo) for the rest of the series.  Kudos Ms. Edmondson.