Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
No Place for Memories
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Sherry Lewis
Class/Genre: Mystery Senior Sleuths
Series: Fred Vickery # 6
Berkley, Feb 1999, $5.99, 268 pp.
Cutler, Colorado is a small town where everyone knows each other. Seventy-three years old Fred Vickery has lived most of his life in the town. Since his beloved spouse Phoebe passed away five years ago, Fred spends most of his time successfully investigating, albeit mostly by accident, unsolved murders. When LeGrande Macafee speaks poorly about Phoebe at their fifty-fifth high school reunion, Fred defends his cherished wife by slugging it out with the man.
LeGrande has a history of obnoxious behavior that has led to many people despising him. Even his own son loathes him. When Fred steps outside to get a breath of fresh air, he discovers LeGrande's dead body. His widow accuses Fred of being the murderer and her consistent outbursts soon has most of the townsfolk convinced that he did kill the man. Fred starts to snoop in order to prove his own innocence.
The sixth entry in the Fred Vickery mysteries is the best one of what is already an excellent series because of the deep insights into Fred and his deceased spouse. This turns NO PLACE FOR MEMORIES into a more personal novel constructed around a great who-done-it. The ending is a shocker that seems to be out of Character for Fred, but stupendous Sherry Lewis makes the climax and, for that matter, the entire book succeed beyond exceptions.
Harriet Klausner
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