I recently finished reading the final draft of a new novel by Cathi Stoller called LAST CALL. This is the second in the "Murder on the Rocks" series of New York City-based murder mysteries featuring owner/restaurateur Jude Dillane. On New Year's Day, a body with a knife through its heart turns up in the dumpster behind her establishment, sending Jude on a one-woman search for the killer. I would call this book sort of a "cozy," in that the murder is not described in graphic detail, and all the suspects are part of a circle of friends and customers who frequent Jude's establishment. In the end, the book keeps the reader guessing and provides more than enough suspense, and, yes, a little danger for the heroine to work through, for even the most seasoned mystey lover. Congratulations, Cathi. You have a winner.
Published on November 20, 2020 18:41
Last year, a new television series called CORONER debuted on one of the cable channels. It featured a female lead named Jenny Cooper, who is a coroner, and a former medical doctor, based in Toronto, Ontario. What I hope is only the first season has since concluded and the show is now in hiatus. Meantime, I started reading the novel on which the series is based. The book is a little different--Jenny lives in the UK, not Canada, and she is a former attorney (solicitor?), not an MD. Nevertheless, the book, which I am about halfway through, is very good and highly recommended. My only difficulty is that there are some for-UK-readers-only terms with which I am not familiar, but these are only minor quibbles. The book was written by M. R. Hall, and is available widely. Give it a read.