Murder Beach

by Bridget McKenna

When private eye Caley attends her high school reunion, she ends up investigating the murder of a local man and looking at her old hometown and her old friends with suspicion. Original.

Genres: Mystery

Paperback

Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Bridget McKenna was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and has lived in a fair number of places since, including southern, central, and northern California, west Texas, northern Illinois, Seattle, and London.

In addition to writing, Bridget practices hypnotherapy, reads avidly (science fiction, fantasy, mystery, classics, and many flavors of nonfiction) and is hopelessly addicted to BBC historical dramas. She lives in Seattle, and writes for the computer games industry.

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story, smart (with quibbles) detective, nice cast of characters.

However, more like a 3.5 stars because of one of my pet bugbears - protagonist has two men interested in her. Both sexily attractive. One of them has treated her terribly. One of them hasn't. Total incomprehension on my part as to why one of these men is given even the time of day, let alone gets to continually put his hands all over her.

Also, unfortunately, very clear who the bad guy is almost from introduction (and failure on detective's amount to even momentarily question the explanation for his wealth). But the story and characterisation was strong enough to overcome this.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

You know it's a great book when the protagonist narrates that pacing helps her think sometimes.