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Review by Chrissi (010302) Rating (7/10) Review
by Chrissi With a title like that, I was expecting an amusing female detective story, rather like the adventures of Stephanie Plum, but it is rather more serious than that. Grace Smith is a nice lady, financially challenged, who is offered a job investigating the death of the donkey by his owner. The police do not seem very interested in the case, thinking that it is all very messy but a one off, sordid donkey murder, with no motive and little chance of it happening again. Grace is a feisty female in the line of Kinsey Milhone, owns only one feminine outfit, lives in a kind of uniform, and is not afraid to do a little breaking and entering when the situation calls for it. She starts her investigation, only to find that it all points to a robbery and murder committed many years ago, but the mystery was never solved, although a man was sent to prison for the crime, it was all rather unsatisfactory. Perhaps it was the expectation of a more amusing story that gives me a slight state of anticlimax, or the bright yellow and black graphics of the cover, but although I enjoyed this for being a well-constructed, well-paced thriller, I was never quite sure whether there was something that I was missing, like the funny bits. Having
finished it, though, I find that I would most certainly read more
if the author were kind enough to write another story for us.
I liked Grace, and her friends, and I would like to know what
happened with the younger Mr Drysdale... |
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