Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle
The Wrong Stuff
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Sharon Fiffer
Class/Genre: Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth
Series: Jane Wheel
St. Martin’s, Hardback, 11/03, 273 pages, $24.95
Jane forgets to sign a school permission slip for her son. So, she vows to clean up her act and get rid of all her stuff. Easier said than done. She is an antiques picker and a packrat. While her husband and son are away at a conference, Jane begins this process by purchasing a book, “Overstuffed.”
She has been trying to decide between two offers – to become an associate with Tim, her friend, in his antiques dealership or to become a consultant in a private investigations firm with Bruce Oh, a former police detective she met in previous cases.
Tim and Jane head up to a furniture restoration place. It is more like a commune. The artists live there. Jane discovers one of them face down in a stream out back. Once again she is embroiled in a murder investigation.
Bruce Oh’s wife is an antiques dealer and already the suspect in a murder back home. Now she is implicated in this as well.
Can Tim and Jane, with the help of Bruce Oh undercover, discover the real murderer and how and why it was done?
During all this she has to deal with her mother and father by phone. This is not an easy task under normal situations but her father is going in for some medical tests that Jane was unaware of before. Can she handle all this and still organize her life at home?
This is a fun series to read. I really enjoy reading about Jane’s adventures. She is very entertaining. Her character is very rich and detailed. The antiques world is a lot of fun to be exposed to and the author does a great job of weaving that in without bogging down the mystery.
I like that there is plenty of investigation throughout the story as well. I highly recommend this book.
Dawn Dowdle
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