Book Review: Chandler's Daughter

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Truly Donovan
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Senior Sleuths
Series: Lexy Connor # 1
Write Way, Feb 2000, $23.95, 230 pp.

Middle-aged computer consultant Lexy Connor believes she is too pudgy to be cute. She loves her home in Gunbarrel, Colorado, a suburb of Boulder. Lexy especially loves the nighttime as she prefers to stay up all evening and sleep away the morning.

When her friend Tally Richard asks Lexy to hide her and her car, she readily agrees to the strange request. Tally has always known she was adopted. However, she never has known the identity of her biological parents since everyone involved felt that was dangerous information for her to obtain. A Los Angeles woman contacted Tally, but was murdered before they could meet. Feeling as if her life is in danger from unknown forces, Tally asks Lexy to uncover the identity of her biological parents in hopes they can neutralize the threat. Lexy starts in California with the dead woman, but soon crosses the continent as someone desperately wants to add Tally and now Lexy to the murder count.

Lexy Connor is a strong woman with a deep sense of loyalty to her friends. In her mind, a friend in need is not a pest, but someone she is impelled to help. She risks her life in order for her friend to remain safe. Truly Donovon adds a romantic interest that thinks Lexy is sexy and hints at further developments in this senior citizen relationship. CHANDLERS' DAUGHTER is truly an exciting amateur sleuth tale that seems to forecast a long run for Lexy. Readers will enjoy this story and want more Lexy tales.

Harriet Klausner

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