Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Dying for a Clue
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Judy Fitzwater
Class/Genre: Mystery Amateur Sleuth
Series: Jennifer Marsh # 3
Oct 1999, $5.99, 240 pp.
In Macon, crime writer Jennifer Marsh signs on as an assistant to sleazy private investigator Johnny “Z” Zeemon to gain first hand knowledge of sleuthing. The two detectives hide in an alley near the East Lake Fertility Clinic waiting for two delivery people to leave. Instead, all hell breaks loose. Z is shot and a frightened Jennifer dives into nearby garbage dumpster filled with trash from a Chinese restaurant. When Jennifer exits her safe spot, she finds a nurse has been murdered.
While Z heals in a hospital, his client Lanier College student Diane Robbins visits Jennifer, seeking the parcel that was to be collected that fatal night. Apparently, Diane recognized the clinic and learned from her mother that she is adopted. The dead nurse was secretly going to provide information that would inform Diane who her biological mother truly is. As Jennifer works with Z to uncover the truth, danger mounts from an unknown source that has already hired professionals to keep certain secrets buried.
The third Marsh mystery is a humorous entertaining who-done-it that stars a wisecracking (at least in her head) heroine. DYING FOR A CLUE contains an enjoyable story line that hooks readers from start to finish. Like the first two “Dying” novels (DYING TO GET PUBLISHED and DYING TO GET EVEN), the characters make the tale. Besides the wonderful Jennifer, her writing support group, the client, Sam, and Z turn this into a novel readers will be dying to read.
Harriet Klausner
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