Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
The Sisters
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Cynthia Victoria
Class/Genre: Mystery Amateur Sleuth
Onyx, Feb 1999, $6.99, 352 pp.
Even though they are both in their late twenties, Joey and Elizabeth Ross still fight with each other as if they are still youngsters. Elizabeth, an attorney in her father's practice, sides with her sire. Joey, a law student, defends their mother. Their parents' relationship went sour somewhere over the years.
However, in spite of their sibling rivalry, their world spins out of control when someone shoots and kills their mother. The police feel that their father did the crime in the heat of passionate jealousy. For the first time in their lives, the Ross sisters agree on something. Both cannot accept their father doing the crime. Elizabeth wants to investigate because she feels guilty over her wish that her mother was dead had come true. Joey feels guilt for always blindly siding with her mother at the expense of her father. Even thought they have never worked together before, the duo needs each other to uncover the truth. This out of character teaming leaves Elizabeth and Joey at risk of obtaining additional demons.
Make no secret that the writing team of Cynthia Victor knows what matters most to readers. Their current novel, THE SISTERS, is a brilliant tale that rivets readers with the relative sins of a dysfunctional family ripped even further asunder by murder. The two siblings are wonderful, riveting characters, whose destructive rivalry must somehow be put aside to save their father and to develop truly deep relationships with each other and the men they love. This is a great amateur sleuth novel that cleverly concentrates on issues confronting contemporary women even as the who-done-it adds much suspense and excitement to a winning novel.
Harriet Klausner
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