Book Review: The Paperwhite Narcissus

Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle

The Paperwhite Narcissus     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Cynthia Riggs
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Senior Sleuths
Series: Martha's Vineyard Mysteries # 5
St. Martin’s, Hardback, 5/05, 245 pages, $22.95

Victoria Trumbull is 92 and lives on Martha’s Vineyard. She gets fired from her job as West Tisbury correspondent for The Island Enquirer. The editor is going for a younger look.

Victoria throws her weight behind The Grackle, a two-page West Tisbury newsletter, into a competitor of the Enquirer. The Grackle’s editor doesn’t want it to grow, but Victoria takes over.

The Enquirer’s editor has been receiving obituaries naming him as the deceased. Since they follow the deaths of people close to him, he can’t laugh them off as jokes. He rehires Victoria to discover the identity of the obituary writer. Since she knows everyone on the island, she sets out to find the writer and hopefully not need one written for herself.

I really enjoy Victoria. She is such a spitfire at 92. She is the type of person I would enjoy hanging around. Martha’s Vineyard is one of my favorite settings for mysteries.

The author has done a great job with the plot and provided many twists and turns to keep us guessing. I highly recommend this book.

Dawn Dowdle

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