Dolly Is Dead

Sarah Deane Mystery #7

by J.S. Borthwick

When Dolly Beaugard's body washes ashore at the same spot as the Gattling brothers the day before and police rule it a homicide, Sarah and Alex become involved in solving the crime and attempt to discover who might be the next victim in this string of murders. Reprint.

Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Cozy

324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1995

About the author

J. S. Borthwick is the pseudonym of Jean Scott Creighton. She lives on the Maine coast. She is the creator of 'Sarah Deane', a professor of English and amateur sleuth.

Series:
* Sarah Deane Mystery

Reviews

[Dollie]

I'm so glad I finally read this book and got it off my shelves so I don’t have to look at the title anymore. This book involves Alex McKensie and Sarah Deane again. Only this time they’re married, but they’re still into investigating. This time an old schoolmate of Sarah’s sister is killed, Dolly Beaugard. Very rich family. They find out that Dolly, who everyone thought was a saint was actually not so innocent. Lots of stuff happening in this one, but I think this is enough Borthwick for me.

[Susan]

Sarah Deane and her doctor husband Alex McKenzie get involved in the problems of the wealthy, unattractive Beaugard family when their middle daughter, Dolly, is one of the three drowned bodies found inthe harbor. Nobody had a bad word to say about Dolly, except maybe her siblings, but when more deaths followed, it became clear that her death wasn't an accident.

[Eugene]

Took a while to get going, but when the actual murder & investigation got into gear it was a markedly better story. I will admit to speed-reading the first stretch of the book, but I slowed down to savor “the good stuff.”

[Vjera]

Christmas Bird Count scene, slightly more birder-ish than other books. And a fun scene where Alex is imagining a library is an aquarium.

[Chris Leuchtenburg]

Another entertaining mystery featuring sweet, nosy but nice Sarah and a cast of soon to be dead characters. The author struggles to keep the conceit of this unerring amateur, who is considered 'under foot' by the professionals despite solving all of the recent murders on the coast of Maine. Some of this prattle is appealingly campy, but it verges a bit close to silly.

[Amy Ingalls]

It took me a bit ro get into this book, but I ended up enjoying it. Reminded me of an old-fashioned whodunnit-- more Agatha Christie, Murder She Wrote, or Midsomer Mysteries than the usual blood and gore Criminal Minds type stuff that I read.

[Ellen]

Sarah Deane #7

[Helen Fleischer]

a bit slow going

[Pat]

long and drawn out
college teacher and doctor involved with old Maine family
several murders
3 drown
OK