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Simona Griffo Mystery #4
The Trouble With Thin Ice
In this keenly plotted and atmospheric mystery, Simona Griffo - the New York ad exec and transplanted Italian who loves to cook and solve murders - finds herself skidding on ice as she attempts to help find a friend.
Simona joins her lover, Stan Greenhouse, and his fourteen-year-old son, Willy, on a trip to Connecticut for the holidays, so that they can get to know each other better, and to attend the wedding of Greenhouse's old friend, Kesho. However, Willy quickly reveals that he'd rather not have Simona around.
To make matters worse, Christmas Eve dinner turns sour when a conflict erupts over Kesho and her finance's plans to buy Rock-Perch, a local house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Though the current owner, Elisabeth Dobson, is anxious to sell, the rest of her family violently objects upon hearing the plan that night at the table. They are indignant not only because Kesho is black, but because her parents were once domestics in the Dobson household. Kesho, for her part, is outraged by their response.
Unsettled by the dinner and frustrated by Willy's behaviour, Simona takes a midnight walk near a snowy lake and discovers a body. Elisabeth Dobson has been murdered, and Kesho is suspect number one.
Over Greenhouse's objections, Simona uses her itchy nose and the fragile alliance she gradually builds with Willy to sniff out the killer. The happy result is justice, friendship, and a satisfying new recipe, a Simona Griffo mystery trademark.
Simona joins her lover, Stan Greenhouse, and his fourteen-year-old son, Willy, on a trip to Connecticut for the holidays, so that they can get to know each other better, and to attend the wedding of Greenhouse's old friend, Kesho. However, Willy quickly reveals that he'd rather not have Simona around.
To make matters worse, Christmas Eve dinner turns sour when a conflict erupts over Kesho and her finance's plans to buy Rock-Perch, a local house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Though the current owner, Elisabeth Dobson, is anxious to sell, the rest of her family violently objects upon hearing the plan that night at the table. They are indignant not only because Kesho is black, but because her parents were once domestics in the Dobson household. Kesho, for her part, is outraged by their response.
Unsettled by the dinner and frustrated by Willy's behaviour, Simona takes a midnight walk near a snowy lake and discovers a body. Elisabeth Dobson has been murdered, and Kesho is suspect number one.
Over Greenhouse's objections, Simona uses her itchy nose and the fragile alliance she gradually builds with Willy to sniff out the killer. The happy result is justice, friendship, and a satisfying new recipe, a Simona Griffo mystery trademark.
273 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
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Camilla T. Crespi
14 books15 followersCamilla T. Crespi also writes novels under the name Camilla Trinchieri.
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* Simona Griffo Mystery
Series:
* Simona Griffo Mystery
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July 6, 2019
Divorced Italian expatriate, and our narrator, Simona is spending Christmas at a small b&b in Connecticut with her policeman-lover Stan Greenhouse and his son Willy, who distrusts and dislikes her. Stan's friend Kesha is planning to get married, and she and her fiancé want to buy the Frank Lloyd Wright house now owned by a member of the Dobson family, who consider that they should rule the town. History and racism are both factors, as is the mysterious disappearance years ago of the husband of the current owner of the house. The local police chief has a long-standing grudge against Kesha, and when Stan has to fly to Florida to help his ailing mother, Willy and Simona find common ground in trying to clear Kesha. I really loved this series, and still miss it.
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