Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
A Very Eligible Corpse
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Annie Griffin
Class/Genre: Mystery Woman Main Character Senior Sleuths Amateur Sleuth
Series: Hannah & Kiki # 1
Berkley, Sep 1998, $5.99, 272 pp.
Though she is sixty years old, Kiki Goldstein feels she is the sexiest vamp in Hill Creek, California. In fact, the outgoing and totally confident Kiki feels she can turn any man into a "lust machine". Her older sister, the modest Hannah Malloy, feels her younger sibling is too loose with her morals. Kiki has a date on a cruise (that she won from the local flower club) with Arnold Lempke, who she plans to score with tonight. However, in spite of Kiki's outrageous flirting, Arnold makes a play for Hannah before leaving in a vile mood.
However, instead of a date, the sisters find a murdered Arnold, lying among his beloved rose bushes. Since Kiki was earlier seen arguing with the deceased and she has no alibi. she become the prime suspect. Instead of panicking over the circumstantial evidence, Kiki flirts with the police officers at the crime scene, leaving it up to Hannah to prove her nutty sibling is a harmless siren, but not a killer.
A VERY ELIGIBLE CORPSE is a very humorous amateur sleuth tale that will leave readers laughing from start to finish. The two sisters with their contentious, but loving relationship, are two of the best characters to grace a who-done-it in a number of years. The murder mystery is puzzling enough to please most aficionados. Annie Griffin has scribed a winning opening gamut in what is hoped to be a long running series.
Harriet Klausner
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