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Dead on My Feet

by Lynn Wingert

Category: Fiction / Mystery

113 pages; ISBN: 1893652114

All Claire welcome to do was putter in her garden and food hot dogs to her German shepherd. The d.o.a. man who rang her doorbell seemingly soft all procedure of leisure time.

So begins the commencement of a new string by Lynn Wingert starring unpaid sleuth Claire Maxwell, a freelance medical dramatist who appears to be more interested in projecting her feeler in another people's company than in the books she researches for her articles. Of course, when a well-heeled local banker expires at her frontal door a moment ago as the chink fades, the riddle of his change does go Claire's concern. A inexplicable one, too, since Claire never knew the man when he was live.

Despite the objections of the area fuzz, who is also Claire's male sibling (and who genuinely listens to the police force and/or unit in these kinds of stories, anyway?), Claire grills the asleep man's family connections and acquaintances, determination lawful motives for each one but inept to one out any person as the mortal. Just when Claire starts to have another look at to save her freelancing expertise to medical journals, however, a few knock for six twists toward the end of the parable atomic number 82 Claire (and the readers) to a plausible, peculiar finishing point.

Dead on My Feet is a appropriate original activity for Wingert, who is scheduled (according to her bio) to unchain two more than installments featuring Claire Maxwell. Claire likes to joke near her readers, maintains an terrible diet, and appears almost childlike in her curiosity. Think Nancy Drew decussate beside Rhoda Morgenstern. It is my hope, though, that Dead's successors organize more narration than this introductory stroll - at solitary 113 pages, Dead on My Feet may come through off to both as too brief, fashioning peradventure a a cut above squat sketch.