Mommy Deadest

Meg Darcy Mystery #3

by Jean Marcy

A blonde woman in your bed can be a disaster, especially when she has been bludgeoned to death, perhaps in your stead. Police detective Sarah Lindstrom reluctantly calls on her sometime love, Private Detective Meg Darcy, to help find the killer. Megs barely suppressed attraction to her only complicates their investigation.
Jean Marcy ia a Lambda Literary Award Winning Author.

Genres: Fiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Jean Marcy is the pen name for Jean Hutchinson and Marcy Jacobs. Partners for fourteen years, they hadn't truly explored the edges of ego until they began to write together. Additionally, they read, watch movies and entertain two dogs and four cats. They live across the Mississippit from St. Louis.

Reviews

[Wayne Spiceland · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with the first two Meg Darcy novels, this one is well written and the mystery itself is credible and satisfying. The introduction of Meg's young niece was a nice, fun addition, but I think I'm starting to like Det. Sarah Lindstrom more than I do our intended main character, Meg. Also as in the previous novels, the authors manage to include an element which causes me to dislike our otherwise rather likable protagonist. Here, it's her whiny insistence that this is her case. She wants Sarah's help but doesn't want to share the credit for solving the case. This makes her seem uncharacteristically petty and shallow, since what's really important is bringing the killer to justice and freeing the wrongly accused boy. Again, nice engaging writing, but, in the end, rather disappointing.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Third in the Series - read 'em all! Dead & Blonde and Cemetery murdurs are two others in this series. Meg's niece, Jan, joins up with her in this book, to help find the killer of "Mom," the principal.

A winner of the Lambda Lierary Award.